 Write Your Own Prayer of Transmutation
If a snake shed its skin on your doorstep, what actions, thoughts or desires would it be suggesting you examine and transmute? Start by exploring a few questions:
- Am I living the life I want?
- Am I living the life I’m here to live? Am I the person I want to be?
- Am I the person I can be?
- Have I uncovered my beautiful work of art—my whole and holy life—in the Divine Marble?
Did you say no, a resounding no? Look behind the big no. Look for the small things blocking you from uncovering the perfect you waiting in the marble. Look at the three areas Snake suggests we examine: actions, thoughts and desires.
Start with actions. Write: “What toxic actions are blocking me from living the life I am here to live?” in your journal. Draw two columns under that question. In the first column, write any actions that immediately come to mind. Are they toxic? Do they need to be transmuted? In the second column, transform that action into something higher, something that vibrates with life. After you write about toxic actions, continue with toxic thoughts and toxic desires. Your journal will look something like this:
1. What toxic actions block me from living the life I am here to live?
| toxic actions | transmuted actions |
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2. What poisonous thoughts & language prevent me from seeing the truth?
| toxic thoughts and language | transmuted thoughts and language |
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3. What false desires get in my own way?
| toxic desires | transmuted desires |
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The hot topic for me was thoughts. My journal looked like this:
| toxic thoughts and language | transmuted thoughts and language | - waiting
- won’t happen
- not now
| - in divine time
- divine plan
- now
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That did it for me. I could actually see what was blocking me. I could see the power my toxic words had over me. Instantly, I knew I had to transmute my language to a higher form. No longer “waiting,” but “in Divine Time.” No longer “won’t happen,” but “in the Divine Plan.”
What do you see? What actions, thoughts, or desires need transformation in your life? Pick one or two that have the strongest blocking impact on you. My most toxic factor was time, but you may discover something else. Maybe your need to control holds you prisoner, or anger has a lethal presence in your life. Doubt may be stopping you in its tracks, or fear holding you back. Perhaps a habit of judging others prevents you from moving forward, or living in the past prevents you from living at all. Maybe the inability to forgive or constant worry poisons your soul. The thing that needs to be transmuted will probably leap out at you. If you are not sure, ask God for focus:
Dear God, I am overwhelmed. There is so much I want to change.
Please show me where to start. Where am I losing the most energy? What am I doing that stops me from living a whole and holy life? Show me God, and I will change it.
Once your toxic elements are revealed, how can they be transformed? Sometimes writing them on the page is sufficient. When the thing that needs to be transmuted makes itself known, it often announces its higher form simultaneously. Doubt wants to be transmuted to trust. Fear to fearlessness. Anger to peace. Living in the past to living in the present. But sometimes, identifying the toxic power has a numbing effect: “Oh God, how can I change this? It’s so strong; it has such power over me.” If it isn’t clear how to transmute something toxic in your life, ask God what to do:
Dear God, this language (desire, action) has been in my vocabulary (heart, life) for years. I believed it. I lived it. But I can’t anymore. It is killing my soul. It is preventing me from liberating the life I want to live. Help me. Show me what these toxic beliefs look like transformed into beliefs of freedom, peace, hope, faith, and strength. Help me. Show me.
As you commune with God, You will be led to your toxic problem’s higher form. Just stay with the dialogue until it becomes clear.
But it isn’t enough just to know the transmuted form. Many of us understand what we need to do. We read the books, listen to the tapes, go to the lectures, yet we continue to live the same way. Change doesn’t happen until we make a declaration of our intention to stop and then, STOP. To make it clear to yourself and to the universe that you choose to stop doing the things that block you, make a declaration:
Dear God, I give up ________________________________________
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Finish your declaration statement with the things you are giving up: the actions you no longer take, the thoughts you no longer think, the language you no longer say, the things you no longer want. (Note, write your declaration in the present tense, not the future tense. I give up. Not, I will give up. If you write in the future, that change will always stay just ahead, out of reach, something for tomorrow, not today.)
Close your prayer with a commitment statement. The commitment statement is your promise to yourself and to God to live in your higher form, think higher thoughts, use higher language, want higher things, and act in higher ways. A format might be:
Today, dear God, I step into Divine Mind where everything is________
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Finish your commitment statement with the highest form of the thing you are transmuting. I needed to transmute my perception of time, so my commitment statement is:
Today, I step into Divine Mind where everything is in Divine Time.
Everything is now, ready now, complete now, healthy now, fulfilled
now. Everything is perfect now.
If you are transmuting a need to control others, your commitment might be:
Today, I step into Divine Mind where everything is according to
Divine Plan. I am not in control. God is. I surrender to God’s plan.
If you are transmuting anger, your commitment might be:
Today, I step into Divine Mind where there is only and always peace.
I live in the peace and strength of God knowing I am safe and loved.
If you are transmuting a habit of dwelling on the past, your commitment might be:
Today, I step into Divine Mind where everything is now, always now,
forever now. Today, I live in the present with God beside me.
Your commitment statement is unique. It is a tool to uncovering the perfect you waiting in the marble. Michelangelo used a chisel. You use your commitment statement.
Using my transmuted language hasn’t been easy or automatic. When people ask if the judge has ruled, I often hear myself say, “I’m stuck here waiting.” When I catch myself, I quickly add, “but everything is according to Divine Time.” With my friends and family I say the last part aloud. When I’m speaking with people I don’t know well, I may say it to myself. The important thing is that God and I hear it. This new language is for us.
What happens when you say your Prayer of Transmutation, make the declaration and start living the commitment? For me, I find I no longer wait. In Divine Time, I don’t waste energy fretting about when things will happen; I know that everything is happening according to Divine Time. In this new time frame I notice things I might not have noticed. I find time to do things I might not otherwise have done—like write this prayer. My waiting has been transmuted from a problem of time to a gift of time.
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