Prayer Can Turn Ordinary Life Into A Spiritual Path

When the world feels loud and your mind won’t stop spinning, prayer can sound like the last thing that would help. We take a different view: prayer is a practical way to reconnect with something larger than the self, whether you call it God, Spirit, the Tao, the universe, or simply a greater field of meaning that can hold you when life gets heavy.

We walk through the major types of prayer you can actually use: petitionary prayer when you need help, prayers for others when your concern extends beyond your own life, prayers of praise that reorient you toward what is sacred, and gratitude prayers that build a steadier emotional baseline. Along the way, we read several short original prayers and unpack what they are doing beneath the words including naming the “terrors of body, mind, and the world,” releasing ego through the image of the divine mother, and asking for guidance during a collective metacrisis when old worlds are fading and new ones have not fully arrived.

We also explore mystical prayer, where the goal shifts from getting results to deepening communion until it feels like union, and we end with a “living prayer” that turns ordinary moments into spiritual practice: breath, work, kindness, parenting, patience, and calm under pressure. If you’ve been searching for how to pray, types of prayer, prayer for secular people, or spiritual practices for everyday life, this conversation offers a grounded starting point you can return to anytime.

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Transcript

Meditation Prayer And Contemplation

Why Prayer Still Matters Today

Types Of Prayer Explained

Petitionary Prayer Save Me

Divine Mother And Ego Surrender

Prayer For A World In Crisis

Mystical Union With The Beloved

Praise Prayer Many Faces Of Tao

Living Prayer As Daily Life

Why Prayer Changes Your State

Closing And Next On Contemplation

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Hello everyone. Welcome to the episode 14 of Spirit X podcast. Lately, in the last few episodes, we are exploring spiritual practices. In the last two episodes, we covered meditation as a practice and the importance of the posture. Today I want to continue with spiritual practices. I think that's an extremely important topic. Across traditions and in spiritual global modern market, there are three basic most prevalent practices. Those are meditation, prayer, and contemplation. Today I want to talk about prayer. You all know about prayer, it's present literally in all spiritual traditions and systems around the globe. We do live in a secular age, so some people are skeptical of religion, some people are skeptical of prayer. Even for secular folks, I do suggest some secular type of prayer. It's very important that you get in touch with something larger than yourself, whether the person or the field or the universe. Benefits of prayers are really, really amazing. So today I want to talk about basics of it. I did write my second book, it is actually about meditations, prayers, and contemplations. So we're going to focus on that. My second book is the companion to the book that we are following throughout this podcast. There are various types of prayers. The most popular type is what's called petitionary prayer when we ask God or ask the universe or ask the divine for something. So petitionary prayer. There are prayers for others. They are very, very important. We pray for our family members or we pray for our loved ones or for our nation or for the globe. We pray for the humanity. There are prayers of praise, and actually I'm going to read some of you today. There are prayers of gratitude and thankfulness. Gratitude and thankfulness should be our major uh our major attitude and our major, I would say, emotion when we live in the present-day world. There are also mystical prayers. I'll read uh to several of you some mystical prayers. So lots of types of prayers. We're going to cover some of them today. What I thought to do today, uh, in these episodes, I did write some various types of prayers in this book. So I thought that the practice part of the to today's episode can be that I read you several players and you just you deeply listen, you digest them, and then you can repeat them on your own. My book is available. So I would like to read to you several player prayers that I wrote. So the first one is called Save Me, and it's very short, and it goes like this Dear God, please save me from the terrors of body, mind, and the world. So it's clearly a petitionary prayer with a very, very deep intent. What I realize here and where what my consciousness realized here that life is sometimes not easy, that there are problems with the body, there are problems with the mind, and problems in the world. And I'm asking divine for help regarding that. I called it terrors or problems or whatever. But uh this prayer is a realization that we need God's help to handle life. And God usually responds. So the next one is it's called Mother's Embrace. On a good day I'm okay. On a bad day, not so much. He said, she said, I'm right, you're right, holding on I, me, mine, I don't know even why. Oh, so tired of ego games. Mother, hold me until my ego melts into your embrace. So here I pray to the mother. So divine can have two basic kind of faces, father and the mother. So mother sometimes responds to our needs in a more genuine fashion. We know that biologically from our family, so sometimes it's good to pray to the mother because the response is going to be compassionate and more immediate. So here I start with basically how I feel about life. So there is a little bit of sharing of my problems, and then basically asking for divine mother's embrace that's going to erase all the problems. So deep, deep prayer with a little bit of a mystical touch. But sometimes when you pray to the mother, the response is more compassionate and more immediate. Father has a little bit of a different strategy, biological father, and God as a father. So so divine as a mother is a very, very good face of the divine. So the next one. The next one is called prayer for the present day. The times are changing, the worlds are disappearing, and the new ones are not appearing yet. Our bodies are feeling sick, our minds are going crazy, our hearts are contracted and polluted. May we find a way out of this metacrisis and create and reach a higher ground for our civilization where future is safe and bright. So help us God. Amen. So this book is written a few years ago, and I would say the state of the world is probably even more problematic than back then. But the feeling of mine when I was when I was writing this prayer, I remember vividly the day when it kind of came to me. The idea is that sometimes we cannot control what's happening in the world, that we don't rise to the occasion, and that we need the divine help. So we should all actually ask for divine help and guidance during these really troubling times. The world is going through a pretty wild transformation and we need God's help. The next one The next one is called Beloved. It's one of my favorite. My beloved, I open my heart and my whole being ecstatically to you until our communion becomes union. One in ecstasy, one in love, one in being forever and ever. Amen. So in some religious traditions, sometimes we call God or God as our beloved, so that's the highest possible being that that awakens in us the highest possible love. This prayer has a little bit of a mystical quality because communion with the God or God is becoming union. So we are one. There is a little bit of ecstasy there, there is love here, there is being. So so yes. So it's a little bit of a of a of a praise, but also you can approach God as a beloved, as that great Tao that you love unconditionally, and it's going to awaken a divine love in you. There are two more. So next one is many phases of Tao. Your consciousness beyond any thought, your bliss beyond any happiness, you're a friend who has been with me forever. You know better than me what is good for myself. You're closer to me than I am to myself. You're the love that holds everything together. You are the one behind the many. You're the self of all separate selves. All many phases of Tao. So the beloved or the Tao or the Spirit or God or God, there's so many faces. It's such a rich phenomenon, such a rich being. And I I uh in a kind of praise manner, I kind of listed some of them. So it's consciousness, it's bliss, it's it's it's it's a great friend, it's love, it's one, it's the self beyond all the self and self of God. So I would say this this type of prayer is actually a praise, and it's it's important to praise, praise the God and praise the goddess. And the last one is called living prayer, it's one of my favorites. Grateful for the food, aware of breath, kind to others, responsible at work, playful with children, patient in crisis, calm in the storm, determined with my goals, inspired to practice, honor to help, seeing you in the eyes of others, praising your name internally, externally, and eternally, greater for the life in human form. It's all prayer. So what I like about this particular prayer is that uh it turns all life into prayer, and uh uh this is the moment when practice and life kind of become one, and it's really really great, and it's important to incorporate prayer and spirituality into your everyday life. Once you do that, your life totally shifts. So, in general, prayer is super important. Uh so let's say when you ask God for something, so let's say petitionary prayer, uh clearly you can get something. But uh that state of being, when you're asking for something, when you're opening to something greater than yourself, when you're communing with the great Tao, uh in itself, in itself is a great state of being. So prayer is great. It's great to pray, and it's great to get some results from the prayer. Uh for secular folks, some sort of relationship with something greater than yourself, you can call it universe or field or whatever, it's still important. I do think that prayer is important in present day because we need to figure out the way out of this, what I call metacrisis. So I hope this inspires you to pray. Uh, next uh episode, we are going to talk about contemplation and we're going to continue with some spiritual practices. We will have some guests and panels soon, so stay tuned. And I thank you for your attention, and I'll see you soon in the next episode. Thank you so much.