The Power Of Prayer and Returning To The Parts Of Us We Thought Were Lost
- May 20, 2025
- 5 min read
Sanjana Thanik is a transformative hypnotherapist, a reiki healer, and an expert in RTT and QHHT. As the founder of Mindskapes, she empowers individuals to reconnect with their authentic selves, guiding them to rediscover the parts of their being that have been forgotten or lost.
In the quiet moments of struggle and uncertainty, prayer has the power to reconnect us with the parts of ourselves we believed were gone. It offers a pathway not just to spiritual solace, but to inner healing and remembrance. This article explores how prayer can guide us back to our wholeness, one sacred breath at a time.
We often think of prayer as something external, a plea to a higher power, a ritual steeped in tradition.
But when we pause to feel its essence, we realize:
Prayer is personal power.
It is a ray of light that pierces through heaviness.
And it is a gentle return to the er, the quiet one who is.
Let’s explore:
P: Personal
At its core, prayer is intimate.
It isn’t scripted. It doesn’t follow rules.
It’s yours.
A whisper only your soul understands.
Sometimes it’s a thought.
Sometimes a sigh.
Sometimes a tear is held in for too long.
It is not about who’s listening, it’s about your willingness to speak honestly to your inner self.
A space where masks fall, where you’re allowed to be exactly where you are, without fixing anything and it’s so important to accept where you are, to know where you need to be.
RAY: A ray of hope, clarity, and connection
In the darkness of confusion or chaos, prayer is often the first flicker of light.
A ray of hope when things feel lost.
A ray of clarity when the mind is noisy.
A ray of connection when we’ve drifted far from who we truly are.
It’s subtle, yet powerful.
Like sunlight through a crack in the wall.
It reminds you that even in your most uncertain moments, there is something deeper, steady, and unchanging, always ready to meet you.
This ray doesn’t come from outside of you.
It emerges when you turn inward.
ER: The healer, the listener, the one who is
The suffix -er transforms the abstract into the one who embodies it:
A healer-Heal+er
A listener-Listen+er
A rememberer-Remember+er
In prayer, you are all of these.
You become the one who pauses, feels, reflects, and reconnects.
You are not separate from the Divine.
You are the bridge.
You are the presence.
You are the prayer.
Prayer, then, becomes a remembering.
P: You bring your powerful presence.
RAY: You receive light.
ER: You become the one who returns to wholeness.
No performance.
No right words.
Just coming home to the self, to the breath, to life.
Prayer begins when you stop performing and start feeling. Prayer is your personal power where the connection to the real you happens. When the Ray of Light dispels the noise and clutter and you become aligned to your authenticity, it becomes the power that shifts things for you. It is the connection to your inner clarity. It gathers all that’s scattered for you into wholeness. Each time you pray with honesty, you reclaim a piece of yourself that was hiding, a part that did not feel seen, a part that forgot it belonged.
We live in a world that rarely pauses.
A world that values productivity over presence, answers over awareness, and logic over inner knowing.
In such a world, prayer can feel irrelevant, even foreign.
It’s often misunderstood as something reserved for the religious, the broken, or the desperate.
But in truth, prayer is something much more intimate.
It’s not about asking for something “out there.”
It’s about returning to something within.
It’s about remembering.
Prayer is not a ritual; it’s a relationship
Prayer is not a formula. It’s not measured by the number of words or how perfectly they’re said.
It’s not always about asking for something, either.
Prayer is a relationship with the unseen, with the soul, with the quiet intelligence that exists within and around us.
It is a space of inner dialogue, not outer demonstration.
A place where the most important conversations happen wordlessly.
When we pause to pray, we begin to hear things we were too busy to notice:
The ache beneath the anger.
The longing beneath the ambition.
The voice that’s been quietly waiting to be heard.
This is how prayer becomes healing.
Not because it fixes us, but because it finally meets us.
The Healing Power of Returning
So many of us are walking through life fragmented
Torn between past hurts, future fears, and the pressure of the present moment.
We forget how to rest.
We forget how to listen.
And most heartbreakingly, we forget who we are.
Prayer brings us back.
It gathers the scattered pieces and gently holds them.
It doesn’t rush to mend. It simply allows space for us to come home.
In prayer, we begin to find the lost parts of ourselves:
The playful child.
The dreamer.
The soul that once trusted life.
Each prayer becomes a thread that weaves us back into wholeness.
Prayer is an inward pathway. Prayer is a potent pause.
Here’s a simple way to reclaim the practice:
P: Pause
Begin. Stop everything. Breathe. Give your nervous system a break from performing.
The pause is your gateway to presence.
R: Reflect
What am I feeling? What is asking for my attention right now?
Reflection is not overthinking, it’s honest listening.
A: Ask
Ask for clarity. Ask for strength. Ask for grace.
Even if you don’t know who you’re asking, the act itself opens a door within you.
Y: You
Prayer is not about something external answering you.
It’s about returning to you the part of you that is still, wise, whole.
Prayer Is for Everyone
You don’t need to “believe.”
You don’t need a spiritual practice, fancy altar, or right words.
You only need presence.
If you’ve ever sat in silence and truly listened.
If you’ve ever whispered, “I can’t do this alone,”
If you’ve ever exhaled after holding it all in for too long
You’ve already prayed.
The soul doesn’t speak in language. It speaks in feeling.
And prayer is the way we remember how to feel again.
Prayer Reconnects Us to the Collective “Us”
In stillness, we realize we’re not alone.
Prayer reconnects us to the web of life with each other.
When we pray, we not only meet ourselves.
We meet the part of all of us that longs to be seen, healed, and loved.
In this way, prayer becomes not just a personal act, but a deeply human one.
It softens our judgments.
It humbles our egos.
It connects our hearts.
It brings us back to us.
In a time where the world feels increasingly disconnected, prayer is a quiet revolution.
It’s not an escape.
It’s not a crutch.
It’s a remembering of who you are, and who you’ve always been beneath the noise.
Let prayer be your return.
Not to perfection, but to presence.
Not to answers, but to awareness.
Not to someone else’s idea of truth, but to your own.
Because the parts of you you thought were lost.
Were never really gone.
They’ve just been waiting for you.
To pause.
To breathe.
To come back.
You don’t need 30 minutes. You don’t need perfect words. You just need 5 minutes. A pause. A deep breath to bring you back to this moment. A willingness to be with what is.
Let prayer become as normal as eating, walking, or breathing. Let it be your check-in, your centering, your soul call to bring in the desired relief in the whirlwind, fast moving modern times.
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Sanjana Thanik, Hypnotherapist, Reiki, RTT & QHHT Practitioner
Sanjana Thanik is a certified hypnotherapist, Reiki healer, and practitioner of Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) and Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT). With her expertise, she guides individuals through deep healing and self-exploration. As the founder of Mindskapes, Sanjana is passionate about helping people reconnect with their authentic selves, unlocking emotional and spiritual well-being.
