Praying Aloud for Maximum Effect

Praying Aloud for Maximum Effect

Sound, like light, can transform matter. Doctors and health practitioners now use ultrasound for everything from cleaning wounds to diagnosing tumors. Some alternative medical practitioners are experimenting with using specific tones to heal organs. And researchers are studying the effects of prayer and chanting on health and well-being.

"In the beginning was Brahman with whom was the Word, and the Word is Brahman."

-Hindu scriptures

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

-The Gospel of John

The sound that we use to transform our spiritual and material worlds isn’t just any sound. It is the Word of God, which we can invoke through spoken prayer, affirmation and mantra. According to the Bible, God created light by speaking. He said, "Let there be light," and there was light. You can also use the power of the spoken Word to bring more light into your life.

The purpose of intoning the Word is to draw down the light that is above to fully manifest it here below. Along with the spoken prayers given in the Meditation for Spiritual Transformation, we intone the AUM (also spelled OM).

People of many religions have instinctively recognized the effectiveness of spoken prayer. Prayers are spoken, sung and chanted in houses of worship around the world. Christians pray the Our Father aloud and do responsive readings. Jews give the Shema and other prayers aloud. And Tibetan monks chant "Om Mani Padme Hum."

Spoken prayer as described in these pages can be used along with any other form of prayer or meditation that you may currently be practicing.

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