| Visual aids |
It is helpful to have visual aids such as photographs, magazine clippings or a map related to the focus of your meditation. These will help you in Step 9 of the meditation to visualize sending the violet flame into these situations.
| Center in your heart and visualize |
Two important preliminary steps—heart centering and visualization—can enhance your success in using the violet flame. Centering in your heart and visualizing the violet flame and the changes you wish to produce will help you harness the maximum power for personal and world transformation.
| Give the prayers and affirmations more than once |
We suggest that the prayers and affirmations be repeated more than once. This increases their effectiveness. In the East, people repeat their mantras over and over, even thousands of times a day. But in the West we are less accustomed to the idea of repeating a prayer.
Every moment God’s energy is flowing to you. So while you are giving your prayers and affirmations, you are continuously charging the energy that is moving through you with God’s power. The more you repeat them, the more positive energy you receive and the more you can send out into the world to bless others.
| Pray for one and all |
When praying for a loved one who, for instance, has cancer, you can send the violet flame to that loved one and to every single person on earth who is burdened by the same disease. It takes no more prayer work to ask for cancer to be eradicated from the planet than it takes to ask for the healing of one person.
| Expect results, but let God determine the outcome |
The violet flame begins to work as soon as you invoke it. It takes varying amounts of time to see results. Our prayers are always answered, but it may not be in the way we expect. The answer may come in the form of guidance to do something that will help you achieve what you have prayed for. Or it may come in the form of comfort and understanding to someone burdened by an illness, though that illness may not be cured. It could be that the person you’re praying for has an important lesson to learn by bearing the burden of the illness. So always ask for your prayers to be adjusted to God’s will and trust that God knows what is best for us at all times.
