{"id":10696,"date":"2025-05-15T16:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/joyful-prayer-and-catharsis-deepak-chopra%ef%b8%8f\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:19:27","slug":"joyful-prayer-and-catharsis-deepak-chopra%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/joyful-prayer-and-catharsis-deepak-chopra%ef%b8%8f\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyful Prayer and Catharsis – Deepak Chopra\u2122\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Profit<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n

When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Deepak, My specific question is about prayer and before I ask it I just wanted to give you some context. I am currently reading your book \u201cHow to Know God\u201d and finding it wonderfully enriching and challenging. I became a Christian 14 years ago and immediately embarked on a very deep and intense spiritual journey with God. My faith has been challenged and has gone through various stages, ultimately with wonderful results and bringing me to new levels. Currently I find that I am not sure that I can call myself a Christian, but I do love Jesus. To put it in the context of your book, I am somewhere between a level 4 and 5 \u2013 fluctuating between the two. Many wonderfully encouraging things are happening and I do have an unquenchably positive attitude about life now. However, my question is regarding prayer because I find that my \u2018old\u2019 way of praying is really not cutting it anymore \u2013 prayers of supplication seem to be somehow vapid, but sometimes I find myself overwhelmed with joy and gratitude and when I express this out loud and with the passion I feel, it seems to be more authentic somehow. This morning, I was driving in my car \u2013 could be dangerous, but I was very much aware of what I was doing, and I mentioned to God that I wanted to talk about my husband. My husband and I are in a slow process of moving apart \u2013 we are simply ill-matched \u2013 and no sooner had I spoke of him, than I started to make audible noises, sort of low groans, almost like labour pains, which then moved into loud, long shouts and calls.<\/p>\n

All I can say is that it felt really good to do it, I was in control of it, i.e. I could stop whenever I needed to, and it was interspersed with what I would refer to as \u2018tongues\u2019 but it was incredibly cathartic for me and somehow it felt like it was doing something in the \u201cheavenlies.\u201d I have been very suppressed by my husband and so it could be just a matter of my own self coming to the surface and finding a voice, but I just wanted to ask if you had ever experienced or heard of prayer like this. Could I really be shifting anything with my strange yelling? Or is it simply a catharsis? Thank you SO much for your time and consideration.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

Response:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that the yelling, noises, and groans were causing the shift or catharsis; those expressions were the outer manifestation in your body of the spiritual shift in your awareness. I believe that opening in consciousness was encouraged by your joyful\/gratitude prayer.<\/p>\n

Your description of the physical release process as labour pains is apt because, as the old conditioned mind and behavior is released, a new you is born with a fresh outlook on life. So that experience you had was doing something in the \u201cheavenlies\u201d as you call it.<\/p>\n

Love,<\/p>\n

Deepak<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n