Whenever you are faced with a difficult person who brings you harm and distress, don't fight, retaliate, or try to seek revenge.

 Whenever you are faced with a difficult person who brings you harm and distress, don't fight, retaliate, or try to seek revenge. Don't give yourself permission to use those tactics. Use the most effective response that creates the greatest benefit and causes no harm. I'm talking about prayer. I have yet to see prayer hurt anyone. In fact, the scientific evidence purports that prayer is highly effective and beneficial for accomplishing worthwhile goals and healing outcomes. If you try prayer, give it enough time to reinforce your bank of faith. Prayer only works if you have faith in the One that you pray to for deliverance. Even if you have very little faith, you might want to give it a try. After all, if you pray for yourself and your designated enemy, you are restructuring your internal emotional and cognitive structures towards a more positive result. It is much better to seek ways to help yourself and to help the disturbing person. After all, he or she can use all the help that he or she can get. There certainly is a realm of power that is much higher than your own. Why not tap into it? When you pray for another, you're also healing yourself. When you heal yourself through prayer, you heal entire universes. It would also be a great help if you could get other people to pray for you and the afflicted person. Spiritual psychotherapy is extraordinarily effective!

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