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Name: The Only Little Prayer You Need
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Author: Debra Landwehr Engle

Debra Landwehr Engle

The Shortest Route to a Life of Joy, Abundance, and Peace of Mind

4.2 (204 Bewertungen)

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What’s in it for me? Shake yourself free from the shackles of fear.

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, soaked in sweat and gasping for breath, worrying about how you’ll pay off your mortgage this month, or whether you’ll get that promotion you’ve been working toward? That’s fear talking.

Author Debra Landwehr Engle knows this all too well. She too was a victim of what she calls “fear-based thoughts” until she found a simple, yet powerful, way to unburden herself from them. A short, six-word prayer, which she whispered to the Holy Spirit in her time of need, was all she needed to jumpstart her journey to greater peace of mind.

In these blinks, you’ll dive deep into what the prayer is, how it can be practiced in your daily life, and what benefits you can expect to see from saying it regularly. Don’t be put off if you’re not religious, though. The prayer is less about worshipping a deity or absolving yourself of sin, and more about finding peace and happiness.

Along the way, you’ll also learn

how seemingly small events can jolt your perspective;
the holistic benefits of making the prayer a daily practice; and
how the prayer’s teachings can be applied to the real world.

A simple prayer can change your life.

What if a single event could change your life forever? Author Debra Landwehr Engle experienced this firsthand when a seemingly unremarkable incident completely changed her perspective on life.

On a cold January day in 2013, Debra and her husband, Bob, went to pick up their car from the mechanic. After finishing the paperwork, Debra jumped into the car, started the ignition, and followed Bob as he drove to return the rental car they’d been using.

As she was driving, she began to notice a rattle in the dashboard. As the sound got louder and louder, she started to get annoyed. “Had the car not been repaired properly? What a waste of time,” she thought.

For the first time in her life, she became aware of all the negative thoughts whirling around

in her brain like a typhoon. The problem was, she couldn’t make them stop.

She knew that she needed something to calm her thoughts – but, whatever it was, it couldn’t come from within her; it had to come from another power. She slunk down in the driver’s seat and found herself praying to the Holy Spirit with the words, “Please heal my fear-based thoughts.”

When Bob got back in the car for the drive home, something curious happened: the rattle in the dashboard had stopped. But how?

Debra thought back to the little prayer she had whispered in the driving seat, where she had asked for her fear-based thoughts to be healed, and realized what had happened: her internal perception had changed her external environment.

This was a life-changing moment for Debra. She discovered that when you ask for your thoughts to be healed, the external triggers that prompt those thoughts are no longer needed. So, the rattles go away.

Debra understood what self-help author Wayne Dyer had once pointed out: when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change.

With these realizations, Debra felt like she was onto something big: this small little prayer had the power to root out negative thoughts and shift her perspective from fear to love.

Prayers usually ask for something in the external environment to change; this one is different.

Have you ever prayed? If so, it may have gone something like this, “Please make my mother well,” or “Please keep my children safe.” In other words, you asked for something or someone in our external environment to change.

However, this prayer is different. Instead of asking for things to change in the world around you, you ask for yourself to be changed. Let’s look at how the prayer can be applied to a specific situation.

Incorporate the prayer into your daily routine to maximize its benefits.

How long does it take to form a habit? And, what are the best ways of doing so? While the answers to these questions will be unique for everybody, the key is consistency – and this is true for the prayer as well.

That’s why you should try to find ways to incorporate it into your daily routine. For example, you could say the prayer as soon as you wake up in the morning, when you go to bed at night, or whenever you make a cup of tea or coffee.

Saying the prayer connects you to your inner serenity.

Think back to when you were a child. Do you remember those cartoons where, as soon as a character has to make a decision, a devil and an angel pop up on either side of her shoulders?

Well, this is kind of like how our brains are set up. According to the online spiritual course A Course in Miracles, which the author teaches, our minds have two sides: the ego and the higher Self.

To heal your negative thoughts, you also need to learn what they are.

Our world is filled with constant chatter – whether it’s the evening news on the car radio, a squabble between customers in the supermarket, or the whispers of gossip coming from the next office cubicle.

We also contribute to the noise ourselves. Remember that pesky rattle in the dashboard – the metaphor for those fear-based thoughts that we’re all immersed in? They contribute to what the author calls the “diet of drama” that we ingest on a daily basis without knowing it.

The prayer helps you accept the things you can’t change.

For many people, the idea of getting fired, having a chronic health condition or losing a relative would be enough to send them into complete despair – and for good reason. But, what if it were possible to face those challenges all at once and still remain calm?

This was the case for Shelley, a woman who attended one of the author’s workshops on the day she had lost her corporate job.

The prayer helps you make small advances toward greater global happiness.

We all have an idea of what our perfect lives would look like – whether it’s living in a nice house, having a family, hopping on and off planes to witness the wonders of the world or a combination of them all. But, aside from this, most of us just want to be happy.

The word “happiness,” however, is hard to define and it’s a concept that, surprisingly, not everyone feels totally comfortable with.

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The Only Little Prayer You Need (2014) is a shortcut to living a more peaceful life. It explains how a short and simple prayer can help you relinquish your fears, renew your perspective on life, and free your mind.

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Fear doesnt originate in the world outside you; it takes shape within your mind.

—Debra Landwehr Engle

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Über den Autor

Debra Landwehr Engle is the co-founder and facilitator of the online “Tending Your Inner Garden” workshops and a teacher of the online spiritual course A Course in Miracles. She is also the author of the blog “Everyday Miracles,” and speaks regularly at global events about how to live a happier, more fulfilled life.

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