Prayer, in its broadest sense, is an act of communion with God.

AFFIRMATIVE PRAYER is not supplication or petition, but recognition and acceptance that God is all there is, that there is no spot where God is not; that we are all Spiritual Beings here and now, and that all the abundance of the universe is already ours if we accept and embody it.

SCIENTIFIC PRAYER is based on our knowledge that the universe is a Wholeness in which God as Presence ( or Love ) works continuously as Principle ( or Law ) to manifest as form or effect, that this Creative Process takes place in a provable, reproducible manner, and that we can consciously allow it to bring about changes in our lives. The five stages of treatment provide a structure and technique which empower this process.

As in any kind of prayer, the faith and conviction of the one praying are vital ingredients in the effectiveness of the prayer. "Pure faith is a spiritual conviction," says Holmes. "It is the acquiescence of the mind, the embodiment of an idea..... If I jump up and down and scream 'I am rich, all that God has is mine,' that is dynamic, but unless it means something to me, unless I am One with the substance of the belief, nothing will happen. Jesus, announcing the same Law of Mind, said, "It is done unto you as you believe."