The WaterPrayer
Experience
The WaterPrayer Experience
Prayer is a tool providing strength and energy. It can
invoke
powers within us that focus our thoughts, feelings,
desires and intentions, to help us create a new
way of being in the world.
The WaterPrayer experience focuses on the fifth mode of prayer, where the goal is to be open to creating an experience of being transformed by the act of prayer. So if I am feeling, or even imagining, how things would be different if a prayer becomes true, the act of praying becomes a way of changing myself--physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Because water is a 'carrier', we use water as a way of focusing and containing these prayers--and as a way of supporting the changes we seek. So by 'drinking a prayer,' we seek to transform ourselves and to bring out the qualities within us that help us live, grow, and contribute to the world.
First Step: Choosing a Quality
Second Step: Preparation
Third Step: Evocation
Fourth Step: Transmission
Fifth Step: Renewal
Additional Steps
First: Choosing a Quality
Choose one of the spiritual qualities you would like to experience or develop by clicking on the link below. From the list of prayers we have provided, choose a prayer that seems to express the aspect of that quality you would like to feel more deeply. Say the prayer a few times to make it familiar to you, then pick the glass from the set that has the quality etched on it.
Second: Preparation
Begin by making a quiet space within yourself, allow the stressors of the moment or the day to recede into the background of your mind, and gently and quietly fill the glass with clean, clear water. Allow the feeling of the glass and the sound and sight of the water to fill your consciousness. Touch the water with your fingertip, or rub some on your hand or lips—make it physical and feel its aliveness.
Third: Evocation
When you are connected to the water in front of you, focus on the quality that is imprinted on the glass. Notice what happens to you when you see the word, say the word, or recite the prayer. Go deep inside yourself and find that quality within, notice where you feel it inside, and what the sensations are as it emerges. Say the word aloud and recite the prayer you have chosen several times and feel how you experience it within yourself. Let the feeling of that energy quality grow and expand. Feel the connections between the word, the prayer, and the feelings and sensations in your body that the words elicit. If you cannot locate it inside yourself, just imagine it, just acknowledge that it is there, and await its emergence.
These require popup windows:
Help me deepen the experience of TRUST...
Help me deepen the experience of ACCEPTANCE....
Help me deepen the experience of UNDERSTANDING...
Help me deepen the experience of LOVE...
Fourth: Transmission
Now, with the presence of the word and the feeling of the quality in your body, put that word/energy/feeling into the water. Hold the glass between your hands and feel the flow of energy and information move from your thoughts into your hands. Imagine that this sacred quality moves into and through the liquid, and let yourself feel and imagine the energy and information of that quality permeating and becoming a part of the liquid you are holding. Imagine the energy of the word actually changing the character of the water, infusing that water with the quality you have chosen to experience.
Fifth: Renewal
Then, take a small sip of the water and feel the connection between the quality in the water and the quality in your body. See if you can feel the way in which the water further awakens that quality within yourself, makes it stronger, and helps it flow throughout the cells of your body and into your energetic presence. Allow that quality to fill your whole body and flow through all the fluids all throughout your body. Let it fill you and grace you with its presence. Continue drinking as consciously as you can and walk your day with this quality filling and surrounding you.
Additional Steps:
If it will help you carry that quality into your day, take a moment while sipping the water and write down some of the people and situations you will encounter during the day and how you want to act differently in those moments. See yourself behaving and feeling as though the quality was deep in you and that your life today is an expression of that quality.
Healing & Peace
