Techniques in Prayer Therapy by Joseph Murphy

Author:Joseph Murphy
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: G&D Media
Published: 2019-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

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How to Forgive Through Prayer

Essentially we must make our peace with our fellowmen before we can pray effectively. But I have found that some definite formulas of prayer help people to resolve the frictions and misunderstandings that occur daily in the home and at business. A constructive restatement of the problem can hasten the reestablishment of harmony between all parties concerned.

A man recently came to my office in a very angry mood. A fellow-employee had been circulating a rumor that he had been falsifying some records. He denied emphatically that there was any truth to the report.

I assured him that what his fellow-employee was saying amounted to a lie, and that a lie cannot stand in the presence of the truth. I advised him to become calm and quietly claim that there existed perfect harmony, peace, and understanding between him and his associate.

He was quick to see the point. He affirmed that his associate knew the truth, spoke the truth, and that understanding reigned supreme between them. When, in due course, there developed a very happy relationship between the two men, the first man found that the trouble had originated in his own ridicule of a suggestion the other had made at an earlier conference. When he understood this, my friend decided to temper any criticism with tact and diplomacy; he had suffered from the backfire of ridicule. Freed from the feelings of anger and resentment, he enjoyed the moods of understanding and good will.

Learning to be Grateful for Criticism

I was talking to a teacher the other day. Someone had written her a critical letter saying she spoke too fast, she swallowed some of her words, she couldn’t be heard, her diction was poor, and her speech ineffective. This teacher was furious but she had to admit that the criticisms were just. Her first reaction was childish; then she agreed that the letter was really a blessing and a marvelous corrective, so she proceeded immediately to supplement the deficiencies in her speech by enrolling for a course in public speaking at City College. She wrote and thanked the writer of the note for her interest, expressing appreciation for her conclusions and findings which enabled the teacher to correct the matter at once.

How to be Compassionate

Suppose none of the things mentioned in the letter had been true of the speaker, the latter would have realized that her class material had upset the prejudices, superstitions, or narrow sectarian beliefs of the writer of the note, and that a psychologically ill person was simply pouring forth her resentment because a psychological boil had been hurt. To understand the fact is to become compassionate; the next logical step would be to pray for the other person’s peace, harmony, and understanding. No criticism can affect you without your mental consent. You always should be master of your thoughts, reactions, and emotions. Emotion follows thought, and you have the power to reject all thoughts which may disturb or upset you.

Stop Blaming God

A man said to me one time that he would be all right if God would only leave him alone.

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