Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom, and Hurt

Excellent book. My copy is well worn, heavily highlighted, and cherished. Made me think about prayer in a whole new way ... because we've as a society lost the truths and approach to prayer that this book shares. Small book, but packed with very helpful insights!

This is the best explanation about what praying is and how it works. Understanding it will help to create a life of your liking and you are the only one in control. It is an inspiring and empowering read.

In an easy to read and understand little book, Gregg Braden captures and shares the profound method of prayer, bringing the ancient wisdom into today’s understanding of the quantum world.

As I work on affirming, manifesting and praying, the topic of forgiveness often surfaces as a prerequisite for spiritual growth (in many books). Honestly, forgiveness is a touchy subject for me and I tend to dismiss self-help literatures that casually encourage readers to practice unconditional forgiveness - regardless of how traumatic, damaging or hurtful the occurrence may have been. It's easy to tell someone to "let go," "release with love," and "move on." Those phrases mean nothing to me, especially coming from mere quotations in a book. This book promotes the practice of blessing - not synonymous to forgiving but - as an act of acknowledgment that the pain-bringing past has indeed occurred. By accepting it happened, the author says one can ascend past the rightness and wrongness of the occurrence and create a space of no judgement so new feelings and thoughts can enter. (don't worry, the author makes it much simpler). It's similar to the meditative notion of attaining pure awareness in between breaths - between inhaling and exhaling is a gap where you're neither breathing in or out, where your breathing has stopped. In this moment, your mind is dead, it has stopped, you are not thinking. The negation of thoughts allow you to immerse in complete awareness, void of mind-thinking. (for more, read Osho books) These states of no-mind and no-judgement is where spiritual transformations, emotional healings (forgiveness) and manifestations seem most possible and many reach these states through prayer and meditation. Reading this book, I felt the practice of blessing as a simple active meditation to consciously shift your awareness from the past hurt to a mindset of no-judgement, creating space inside of you to begin forgiveness and healing. The author's writing style is uncomplicated and easy to read. It's unnecessary to agree with his interpretations of religious evidence behind his beliefs, to appreciate this book.

This book needs to be read and read again by everyone! It has changed my thinking about praying forever. The referenced sources are now a part of my journey also. Thank you, Gregg Braden.

I've known about this form of prayer for years, but I really didn't understand how the process worked. Along with the way to create and feel a prayer, the heart of the book are the stories to help us understand a very effective and ancient practice. I'm sure I'll read this book again.

I loved this book because it not only looks at the same ideas from different perspectives, cultures, and belief systems, but because it also gives you very easy and clear steps to apply them. I feel as if I've grown in the time it took me to read this. That somehow, I'm wiser, more developed spiritually, and also a thousand times lighter! I trust this author, have read another book of his, and have watched many of his videos. Not only does he know what he's talking about (after all of his intensive research) but also, he just seems so authentically passionate about it. He seems like he would be the nicest guy to sit down and have a conversation about. Super glad I picked this one up!

It took me about a week to sip the pages of this book and I tried the advice on the pages. It's helped my mental health and I've already seen some doors open. Whether the doors would have opened without my reading this book is of a small matter because I wouldn't have been in the grateful mind to embrace the opportunities without it. Thanks!

The main theme is excellent, could be without additional anecdotes. People do not remember how to identify their own feelings.probably working more on that would be useful.

Really interesting for all people who use to pray and meditate. The old mode of praying is powerful and healing. It works concentrating the mind or feeling what we want to be or get for us and for others. If we are not able to feel happy, antecipating what we believe is the most important thing for us or other living being, we are not able to experience it. To pray is to put ourselves in the heaven, If we do not give any time to feel these condition, it does not work to pray for any kind of divinity to give us things we can not apreciate.

I wish I could have given 50 Stars. One of the best book I have ever read after Autobiography of a Yogi. This amazing scientific literature is full of solid evidences how the beliefs are formed in our life and how those falls beliefs molds our life. This book will change the way you look at your challenges. This book will give you tools to be prepared to face those challenges and molds the results the way you want. Off course it's all about faith. You can't fill a glass if it is already filled.

This is a must read!

I love the philosophy of DR. Braden, it's spiritual, historical ,and scientific in the meanwhile. I've already read it in my mother language but also want to read the original one again in english:)