Does positive thinking work as well as prayers?
June 29, 2009 by admin
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Prayers commonly involve making personal requests to God. Praying personnels are often encouraged to believe that they have already receive the things they ask for, and to give thanks to God for answering the prayer. Studies have shown that this kind of positive prayers have a relatively high degree of success in terms of prayer request fufilment. Supposing if I employ the same amount of faith, but replacing prayers with purely positive thinking and affirmation without any conscious connection to God, will it have the same effects?
There is so much that is wrong with your thinking, I don't know where to begin … and I don't mean that in an insulting way, it's just that you think like so many others (including many Christians I know personally) who do not understand prayer.
Prayer is not about personal requests. Those who pray to God for something and then give thanks for answering the prayer are misled. We give thanks to God for meeting our needs and thanks for His love. That's it. If you study the prayers in the Bible, there aren't any personal requests lol.
Having said that, yes, positive thinking will get you a relatively high degree of success, even without any conscious connection to God. You should study it further, you'd be surprised.
There's a lot to be said for focusing on what you want instead of what you don't want, but there's nothing mystical about it. We tend to see results where we focus our attention.
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The most powerful positive thinking comes from knowing that Jesus Christ has forgiven you and that you are a child of God.
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Positive thinking involves only yourself and your own brain. Praying to God involves God's supernatural powers which we don't have..
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It does.
That's why prayers and such can cause people to work better in life often, they go forth with a sense of confidence because they imagine someone backing them up.
Same applies for life or death circumstances, the person tends to calm down, which if they are drowning will slow their heart beat and make them not burn through their supply of oxygen as fast.
It seems to work just as well as a placebo effect– if you think it works, it works for you, whether it's doing anything or not. What else would you need if you think it works?
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That is certainly better than being negative, of course. In my opinion, though, there is some power to positive thinking, but it falls short of the POWER of God.
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If by "work as well as" you mean don't work at all, then yes. Every controlled experiment that has ever been done on either shows no effect at all outside of a minor placebo effect. If you control that out, nothing.
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More often than not prayers are just thoughts anyway. With the notion that God can hear our minds ONLY when we want him to… Either way you look at it, they are both just as powerful.
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Praying has no effect. How many amputees have had their missing limbs replaced by god? None! What does that tell you ? There is no god.
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Prayers and positive thinking go hand in hand. Prayers may help you calm. Positive thinking is about your attitudes toward the problems you're facing. If you view your problems with positive attitudes and certain degree of calmness, then your understanding becomes positive and clearer. And, that's how you see way-outs of your problems.
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There is so much that is wrong with your thinking, I don't know where to begin … and I don't mean that in an insulting way, it's just that you think like so many others (including many Christians I know personally) who do not understand prayer.
Prayer is not about personal requests. Those who pray to God for something and then give thanks for answering the prayer are misled. We give thanks to God for meeting our needs and thanks for His love. That's it. If you study the prayers in the Bible, there aren't any personal requests lol.
Having said that, yes, positive thinking will get you a relatively high degree of success, even without any conscious connection to God. You should study it further, you'd be surprised.
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It may, it may not because when you pray for a request for God intervention, you are seeking for the best out of it and because some request can turn out to be leading you astray or deviating from the right path, God will now choose for you either to grant your request directly or indirectly by substituting or delaying the request to the appropriate time.
In the other way, positive thinking is a culture develop through faith and care for justice and you are invariably connected to God, may be you mean 'effort', and if that is what you mean; of course you will have it but may be not at the right time and also because if you are truly praying all the time whether in need or not, solutions to your problem will come even when you never espect.
Let me know if that is what you mean.
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Do not forget to include your actions as well.
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I think, balanced thinking works much more efficiently than a positive or a negative thinking.
I do meditation and do not know how prayers work.
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Thought is the important mechanism by which we figure out how to get what we want. Our thought is always at work, calculating how to achieve the greatest reward for the least effort. It is a powerful tool for us.
Prayer is a desire of the heart which is in accord with bringing a person closer to the goal for which we were created. To become similar to the creator by acquiring benevolent, giving qualities. Praying actually means sentencing oneself! After a person judges himself or herself and sees that he or she is egoistic, there is a heartfelt cry to the Creator to change one’s nature to altruism. This cry, and only this cry, is considered a prayer.
http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/kabbalah-video-clips/prayer
http://www.laitman.com/2008/10/the-book-of-zohar-chapter-%e2%80%9craising-a-prayer%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-1/
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