There is no wrong way to pray. The simplest, purest prayer is this: Help Me. This may be the only prayer you need for some time. Take a deep breath, turn your attention to your heart and simply ask .Help Me..
The beginning of prayer is petition – the prayer of supplication, in the words of St. Issac the Syrian – which is anxious, and weighed down with preoccupations and fears. This is no more than a preparation for true prayer – spiritual prayer – and consists in a gradual ascent towards God in seeking and effort.
Little by little the soul reintegrates itself, regains its unity, and particular petitions begin to disappear and seem superfluous, as God answers prayer by making manifest {God’s} all-embracing providence. There is an end of petition when the soul entrusts itself wholly to the will of God. This state is called “pure prayer.’ It is the end of “praxis” since nothing inconsistent with prayer can any longer gain access to the mind, nor turn aside the will which is now directed toward God, and united to the divine will. The synergy, the harmony of two co-operating wills, continues throughout all stages of ascent towards God; but at a certain level when one leaves the psychic realm, in which the spirit is active, all movement is at an end and even prayer itself ceases. This is the perfecting of prayer and is called the spiritual prayer or contemplation…..it is absolute peace and rest.
The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church by Vladimir Lossky
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