Whenever I pray, I visualize, I let go, and I can see the energy of that prayer. I feel the power behind prayer. I see it visibly in my minds eye as if it’s real. When I’m praying for others it seems to carry greater impact. I’m calmer and regulating my nervous system. Miracles appear in the smallest moments, and then I act towards making bigger miracles real. I always wake up with more clarity.

I do not bypass the bad, I see and feel that too. In prayer, I ask for clarity as to how to act to positively impact and shift the bad into something better.

I look at prayer as something everyone can do regardless of their beliefs or spirituality. I’d even argue that people pray without even realizing it.

Praying connects us to something greater than us and has the power to put us in a state of awe. I mentioned to my email subscribers last week, awe changes our physiology in amazingly positive ways.

And yes, I too have yelled at God, the universe more often than I’d care to admit. In hindsight, I now realize my actions and micro-actions (including thoughts) weren’t matching my prayers.

How This Ties to Leadership

I just finished reading, The Kingmaker: A Leadership Story of Integrity and Purpose by Coach Tony Bridwell. It was intuitively recommended to me by someone I admire for his Integrity and Purpose, and the amazing energy he embodies and carries everywhere he goes.

It becomes increasingly challenging to live and lead with integrity and purpose if we’re not clear on our vision and our intention for our life. The author taught me a new term, called situational integrity. We basically ghost our values and integrity in order to get what we want. That want becomes fleeting as it is based off a weak and shaky foundation. When we act on situational integrity our words don’t match our prayers and our foundation cannot weather the storms of life and work.

Prayer is intention and prayer brings us back to clearly see our purpose again. It is also meditation which regulates our nervous system helping us see where we’re out of alignment with our values and begin to act with clarity again.

Prayer also connects us more closely with those around us. The best leaders I know are the ones that are authentically and vulnerably connected to their teams and co-workers.

As business leaders, when we lose our spirituality and connection to the earth and intuition, we are blinded by greed, artificial power, and the whims of those around us. We ultimately give our power away.

Those of us who deny power and are used to playing small can use this connection to our spirituality, earth, and intuition to let our light shine more brightly from the inside out owning the power and purpose that is rightly ours.

Prayer for Others

I’ve read and witnessed when groups uplift in prayer centered on love and empowering many, miracles happen. I did a lot of googling before writing this only to be disappointed that physics and science haven’t caught up.

When we share with others the hardship that we’re going through we allow ourselves to feel a little bit taken care of, even in our worst moments. I’m not just talking about devastating hurricanes, floods, war, food prices, the election. I’m referring to collective pain and individual.

Many of us have been groomed to be so hyper-independent we don’t even know how, when, or where to ask for help. We fear being a burden or needy. That narrative begins to change when we ask others to pray for us.

If you have stumbled upon this blog and made it to here, this is not by chance. Please email me with your prayer (in as many or as few details as feels comfortable to you), and I will add you to my prayers.