Morning Prayer 2

In this series of blogs, I thought I would share some explanations about the Morning prayer by Jo Getzinger, my prayer minister.  Some of you have asked questions about these prayers, so I will take it paragraph by paragraph.  Some of it might seem obvious, but I think this can be helpful for all of us.  If you’d like to see the full prayer you can go to www.Care1.org or purchase Prayer Warriors from Amazon. 

This is the next paragraph:

“Please bring up the Christian host system and any other parts that you desire to hear this prayer.  I give You authority over all switching today.  Show me when switching, unconscious triggering or self-programming occur.  Teach my parts that they need not handle things in my life which they handled in the past in order to survive neglect or abuse.  I give no permission for any part to assume unauthorized control of the body for any purpose against Your will.  Give strength to the Christian host system.”

To me, these are important prayers to help our parts know what our intention is.  We want our true Christian host (presenter) to be the one upfront and active.  We want True FAMILY to have authority over all switching so that cult parts aren’t taking over and doing things that we don’t want and don’t know about.  We want to be more aware of what is going on.  Dissociation creates amnesia walls that are protective in the midst of trauma but do not serve us long term.  We want our parts to learn new skills for thriving!  We get to let them know that we are in a new season where they do not need to self-protect because we are choosing True FAMILY to protect us. 

Strengthening our Christian host system, or others have called it our true identity, is key for a survivor.  We’ve been used to functioning for survival, often tied into double-binds which seem impossible to break.  As we gently, regularly remind our parts of who we are giving authority to (True FAMILY) to manage our lives and to help us, they will begin to see a new way of living that is a benefit to all without the need for punishments, abuse, or rituals.  This is good news! 

We are not in the business of forcing our parts to do what we want them to because this is no different from the cult.  It may take time for them to shift but I’ve found the more regularly I pray these prayers, the more progress in my system.  Have you found this to be true?  Feel free to comment below!