Ever noticed how people often ask, “How do we meditate?” but rarely, “How does one pray?” Because praying feels natural—it’s asking, pleading, seeking. We turn to God, the Universe, or a higher power, hoping for intervention, for desires to be fulfilled, for healing to be granted. Prayer is filled with words and chatter.

Meditation, on the other hand, is the opposite. As you go deeper into meditation, many desires fade, expectations loosen, and you realize God doesn’t save” us but assists us in our healing journey. In prayer, the mind runs in circles, restless, always asking. In meditation, thoughts arise, but we don’t chase them—we observe, we let go, we return to the stillness within.

Prayer often feels like an action, a task, something to do. Meditation, however, is a state of being. When you pray, you seek God outside of yourself. When you meditate, you realize there is no separation—you are God, God is you. In fact, there are no two. There is only ONE. In prayer you ask, you offer, you leave, hoping luck will favor you, as if God were a vending machine. Meditation, however, brings you back to your own essence. You stop waiting for magic to happen—because in that stillness, you realize you are magic. Life itself is magic.