Prayer v Meditation

wanted to share with you guys. So let's start with the difference between the two. Because there are two different things people ask me, Okay, should I pray or meditate? I feel that you should do both because they're two different things. So, for instance, prayer, the way I see it is that you're plugging yourself into the spiritual realm. You're kind of putting yourself in God's hands. A lot of people don't pray on a daily basis, or they only pray when they need something, and in my opinion,

I feel like it shouldn't be that way. I think that we should pray every single day and plug ourselves in, like literally say okay, I'm gonna plug myself in to the spiritual world, into the light, and it's more about thinking than asking, you know. You know how they say it's better to give than to receive. That's kind of

how I feel with prayer. Of course, you could pray for people and pray for their well being and pray for things and say God please help me, or God, you know, whatever it is that your desire is or you need at that moment. There's nothing wrong with that, But I always like to start by saying thank you.

Having an attitude of gratitude. I feel like when you are grateful for what you do have versus just praying for what you want and what you desire, like you're missing such a beautiful gift, you know what I mean, Like you're overseeing, Like, Okay, I have a roof over my head, Thank you God. I have clothes on my back, I have food in my refrigerator, I have money in my account. Like I feel like the more you're grateful for what you have, the more you wrine. That's how

I see prayer. Now. Meditation is just as important. The way I see it is really silencing your mind and taking a moment to just step away from all of the noise and all of the responsibilities and most importantly, all of yesterday's maybe negative thinking. This is what I like to say. I close my eyes and of course

I always start with gratitude. I'm like, I'm thankful. I'm think, well, I'm thankful because it takes a long time to kind of get into the state of like nothingness and aligning yourself with the universe, with the light as well, but more than anything, silencing your mind and just thinking of blissful things or just not even thinking at all. It's just there's so much power in silence. And I use

meditation music. I like guided meditations like as well. There are a lot also on YouTube and stuff, and someone can guide you where you can literally just sit there with like meditation music and just sit, sit, just be. I found this quote that I want to share it with you guys, because it's about prayer. Here's the quote, pray about it as much as you think about it. So that's prayer on the prayer side. We kind of talked about that already, but there's this one about meditation.

Everything you need, your courage, strength, compassion, and love, everything you need is already within you. So I feel like

that's what meditation is. It's kind of reminding you and bringing you back to yourself, because sometimes we get so caught up in the rat race of life and trying to accomplish and trying to get and want and all this stuff that our humanly like desires, want our flesh that we forget there's so much to be grateful for, and like it just brings you back to yourself, to your authentic self, is what I feel like meditation is. Here's another one. Silent isn't empty. It's full of answers.

So sometimes when you just quiet your mind, it's crazy how you can hear and you can feel things when you're just like, just shut it, you know what I mean. No television, no Instagram, no emails, it's just you and your thoughts. And for me, prayer and meditation have become such an essential part of my well being, part of my self love, part of my everyday routine morning and night, because it helps me just feel better. I feel like

I'm more successful now. There are times when I don't have I wake up later something and I'm like, oh shit, like I can't meditate today, but I definitely will get on my knees and pray. And I choose to get on my knees, especially at night, because it's a way of like humbling yourself amongst a higher power. Sometimes people could think, oh, you know, Cheekys has it all and she has this and she has that, and like some people might even think that they're powerful and they're better

than everyone else. And I feel that it's so important to every day like humble yourself and get on your knees and just say, hey, I see you, I see who I am, and I'm everything I am because of you higher power, God, whatever you want to call it. It could be your Santos, it could be La, it could be whatever you believe in. It's important to just surrender yourself to that higher power, which is why I choose to get on my knees. Sometimes I don't get

on my knee. Sometimes I'm standing up and I'm praying and I'm thanking God. And sometimes it's five minutes, sometimes it's thirty minutes, sometimes it's an hour, it doesn't matter the length. And sometimes people are like, well, how do I pray? Just talk? Just say God help me. I don't know what to say, but can you just help me like, I don't I don't even know how to start this, Like it's thank you God. Sometimes it's just thank you God, thank you for this day. I love you.

I'm here, I'm yours. That's it doesn't have to be this huge, elaborate, elegant way of speaking like God. I feel like in the higher power and faith, they hear you no matter how you say, even like sometimes I'm like shit, God, like I'm mad, you know what I mean, Like sometimes I cuss and I'm like, Okay, I'm not telling you to throw f bombs all the time. But the universe loves you just the way that you are. Of course, you've got to try to be better, a

better version of ourself every single day. But I want to put that out there because a lot of people are like they asked me, like, how do I even start? Same thing with meditation, there's guided meditation, there's things on YouTube, there are a lot of books that you could read, and again it's just literally sitting in silence, and there's guided meditations that will guide you as to what to think and what to say and what colors to see. And now I just got to the point where sometimes

I do guided and I like align my chakras. There's like a chakra one, and sometimes I just do my own and I just sit there and I'm like, Okay, today's gonna be a good day. And I just like recite everything in my mind. And again, some days are shorter than others. And I know a lot of you might be thinking, Okay, it's so easy for you to say to meditate, cheeky because I've told some of my friends, just meditate. Try it. They're like, but I can. I've

tried it. And I sit there and I just think about what I have to do tomorrow and what I have to do later and like all this stuff, and it's like I get it. Believe me, I get it, you guys. I it took me a long time, I want to say, like for real, real, like six months to train my mind and bring it back. It's all about just being being intentional. I love that word intentional. But in being intentional and just when you're sitting your mind is gonna be okay. Because I always like, thank

you God, thank you, think you, thank you. I'm grateful. I'm grateful. Like the more you recite it in your mind, like you start forgetting about all of the things that you have to do and that you didn't do yesterday and blah blah blah. And then sometimes you're like, oh, shoot, but oh I gotta make beans today or something I don't know. Then you're like, whoa, waitit wait, I'm not

gonna think about that right now. I am grateful. I am grateful that I have beans that I'm gonna cook later, but right now is my time, and you have to kind of just even if you say it out loud, it's better if you say it in your mind. But it's like little by little, it's gonna take practice. Practice makes perfect. So the best thing I can tell you is don't give up on it, even if it's two

minutes and you just gradually bring it up. You know, from two minutes to five minutes to eventually you're gonna be meditating for thirty minutes and you're not even gonna feel it. But it does take time. So be patient with yourself and with the process, and eventually you're gonna notice, oh, shoot, this is getting easier and easier. I've been praying my

whole life. I used to write down my prayer so I didn't forget on a big piece of paper huge I would write, I want to pray for my mom, for my grandma, for my siblings, for this, for that, like and it would just get longer and longer and longer because there was like a list of things that I wanted to pray about and I didn't want to forget. So I've been praying my entire life. That's something that has been a part of my family for a long time. Like you know, we went from Catholic to Christian, and

then I went from Christian to just spirituality. And I go to churches and it's like, I'm very like, I respect all religions. I love Catholic Church for some reason. I love Buddhism, I love Christianity. Like I've told you guys this so many times. I'm not a religious person. Oh I guess I am. My religion is called love. But anyways, before I used to pray in a different way. Now I've learned to pray. Like I just told you guys, I just talked to God. He's my homie, he's my friend.

Like I've been meditating, though consistently for almost three years. I think it started. I was going through really rough patch in twenty nineteen right after I got married and I started looking into meditation and it helped me so much, especially during the pandemic when we were all in quarantine and I started experiencing anxiety and like kind of like worried about the future, and it was just causing me a lot of discomfort in my chest and in my mind.

And I started just getting into it a little bit deeper. And thank goodness for quarantine because it gave me the time to really like dive into it and look into it. And you know, everything happens for a reason, And since then, it's just been amazing. If I don't meditate on a daily basis, like, I feel the difference. And mind you, there are times when I won't meditate for four days in a row because I don't wake up on time, because I'm like, whatever the case may be, I'm not

perfect either of you guys. But I can feel the difference when I don't. Like it's become such an essential part and important part of my life that when I don't do it, lociento. I meditate usually in the morning, and I pray morning and night, and at night is when I like to get on my knees and say thank you God, and it's short, and so thank you for this day. Help me have a good night's rest, help me wake up good tomorrow, take care of my

siblings or children. Like you know, it's a little shorter at night, and sometimes if I need it, I'll meditate at night. It just all depends. But it has definitely become something that I can't live without. I don't want

to live without. And there are a lot of benefits to prayer and meditation, but one of the things that I've absolutely loved and I'm so grateful for, especially meditation, is that when I've been in stressful situations or in drama that is happening around me, or even people talking crap and trying to like pick at me. Before I meditated, I started meditating, I felt like it was easier for

me to react. I was more impulsive. I'd go and start like tweeting and sending all these things on Twitter and saying all this stuff, and it's like they accomplished what they wanted was to get my attention in a negative way. And meditation has helped me stay in my essence and remind me of who I am, of my true essence, which is peace. I don't want to have issues.

I don't want drama. And even when like it's helped me in my relationship, even with friendships, things that like sometimes you know that we're not always gonna agree, and it's helped me just see the other person for who they are and just take deep breaths because meditation you breathe deep breath in, deep breath out. And when you do that, even if you do that, like in your stress, just breathing profoundly and deeply and holding and releasing, it

helps so much, like you're just less stress. I think it's helped me also lose weight. It's just it's helped me so much, Like I just me madrel Mondo. Like there are times when I'm like, oh whatever, everything can literally be just like fucking crumbling down around me. And like, but I'm so sound inside my heart because I meditated that morning and I'm connected that Melee. I'm like, whatever

tomorrow is gonna be better. It's gonna be fine. This drama that's happening right now, in a week, no one's gonna remember if it's stay focused, Jenna, stay focused. And that's my favorite part. Honestly, that's the biggest and most beautiful gift that meditaition and prayer has given me. Well, I hope you really enjoyed this episode. It's one that's very close to my heart and hopefully it helps you guys as much as it's helped me. Thank you for

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