The "mentally unceasing prayer" nourishes man and afthartopoiei, is primary need of every soul, tree of life.

The "mentally unceasing prayer" is the first step to arrive to the Theosis.

Only when we focus our attention on Christ, that it is perfect. When we have Christ within us continually, before our eyes, then everything is going well.

Asked St. Anthony what to do to gain the Kingdom of Heaven, and then he told them:

• The,what are we doing, constantly thinking Christ.
• The,what are we doing , always be consistent with the Bible, with the commands of Christ
• Whichever place sit, not moved quickly.

The whole secret is to continually have our mind to Christ, then what,Whatever we do is perfect.

The focus of our mind to Christ, which is the first step to arrive at the Theosis, achieved by "mentally unceasing prayer".

To achieve the "unceasing noetic prayer", "Sir, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner ", that connects us constantly to the Lord, need to fully follow the commands of the Lord. By "mentally unceasing prayer" the mind focuses on the heart. We can combine it with our breath, inhaling "Lord Jesus Christ", exhale "have mercy on me a sinner".

With the "unceasing prayer" we are connected with Him, We have everything, It helps us to follow His commandments and to move to the Divinity.

"With prayer Christ gives us the opportunity to speak with Him. Prayer is conversation with Christ. By prayer we can talk with Him then. Prayer is to put Christ in our hearts, to love Christ with all our heart. The more one prays, the more confident he feels ". (saint Paisius)

The Abba Isaac the Syrian tells us that the greatest sin is to not want to resort to communication, to help with Christ through prayer, while we can. we then occupied by the devil because we have no communication with God.

Humility brings grace to say the Jesus Prayer in our hearts, simple and humble.

"All art is just: or walk, or sit, whether you are standing, whether you work, either you are in church, let this prayer slip from your lips: "Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me "with this prayer in your heart you find inner peace and tranquility of body and soul". (St. Seraphim of Sarov)

Our aim must be continuous, our eternal connection with our Creator. Through this communication we receive instructions for everything in our lives. This is achieved by "unceasing prayer".

"If man wont says every day" wish "even some, as it can, his heart slowly sweetened and waiting when that time comes that says the "wish". And when the heart is sweetened, alone one asks more ». (Ephraim Katounakiotis)

The purpose of the invocation of the Name of the Lord is to be able to surrender to God, to unite with Him and to attract the Holy Spirit. The repetition of "prayer" frees us from every evil spirit, cleanses and heals the mind and our heart. Gather our minds are scattered in buildings and focuses on the Creator, the Triune God. Thereby consolidates and completes our existence. By "hope" we attract the grace of the Holy Spirit, that strengthens our, It helps us to keep in mind in our heart.

The late Archimandrite George says that burned us to Christ dwells in our hearts, need to fully believe in Him, continually repent, when sinning disobey His commandments. To follow the Sacraments, which leaves the Godman Christ in our Church, to unite with Him. But if you forget to do the "unceasing prayer" and we are not constantly on our minds in Christ, then He can not dwell in us. The uninterrupted prayer is that which makes us constantly think of Christ, He pulls within us.

Saint John Chrysostom says that our noetic, cardiac prayer is expression of love to Christ. This "continuous cardiac prayer 'must be made mentally by the depths of the heart, to about crash, free from passions, not asking anything, but to thank and constantly glorify God. Connects prayer with breathing, as we can not stop to breathe, so we never stop praying.

Pray continually, says St. Chrysostom, which is influenced by the Apostle Paul was saying: "Pray continually", "Whether Un esthiete or drink, or what ye, always the glory of God ye » and asks everyone to pray constantly. In fact so much he was influenced by the Apostle Paul that the apostle Paul spoke in the left ear for it and the head of which is the Monastery of Vatopedi, I had the chance to worship many times, is left intact ear of St. John Chrysostom, which the Apostle Paul spoke.

By "mentally unceasing prayer" is Christ in us and cleanse us, It fills us with His energy, with divine Grace. then invoking the name of Christ we receive energy, our heart is filled with Christ. Our desires must remain in mind, our heart is perfect to have Christ only. then invoking the Jesus Prayer, we are constantly connected with Christ, we are in constant communion with Him and then subsequently receive His Grace is the divine energy that animates everything.

"The Orthodox believe that the power of God is in the Name of Jesus Christ so that the invocation of the name sulfur acts as an effective sign of God's power, as a kind of mystery. The name of Jesus, when located in the heart of man, connects the heart with the power of deification, Shining through the heart light of the name of Jesus Christ, illuminates the Universe ". (Bishop Kallistos Ware)

St. Isaac the Syrian tells us that by constantly invoking the name of Jesus Christ the mind begins to focus not on buildings but the Creator and then the relationship of man with God is restored and comes in pre-fall state:

"When the Holy Spirit dwells within man, man does not stop praying, because the Spirit constantly praying mid. Then, nor when sleeping or when awake, the soul is not cut off from prayer. But even when eating, and when drinking, when she lies down or when working, even when deep asleep, the fragrance of prayer is inhaled from the heart itself.

"With the constant invocation of the name of the Lord, leave the vain thoughts. The mind is limited to only remember the divine meanings, not interested in the present life, but the greatest pleasure of the continuous study of the divine name, rises to God. Takes another sense of life of the age to come and the righteous rule, deposited hope. Brunch greatness of that life and said with surprise: "O depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge and wisdom of God unsolved". Because it prepared another world so wondrous to introduce them all reasonable and to keep them in endless life.
"Every effort and toil and temptation can not be compared to that blissful life.

By what the Apostle Paul says ouranovamon: "CDR Value The sufferings of the current weather to mellousan to us apokalyfthinai glory". And thousands of lives and all we had to sacrifice, nothing special compared to the future glory in which Christ Master, by Holy Blood have loved to restore our '.

Only by divine grace can do real Jesus Prayer, we can not keep in touch with God with technical. Only by lowering the exercise of "mental prayer" brings us the Grace of God. The grace of God comes only with humility.

"So when we understand that our baptism in the Holy Trinity's name is not only cleansed from the dirt of original sin, yet we accept the gift of the Holy Spirit and we sincerely hope that through our God dwells Himself, the inexperienced and aperinoitos. Then faith helps us to clearly understand the importance, and the strength of cardiac prayer and therefore requiring the concentration of attention and mind within the heart.

"What holy desire, what good zeal made the soul, listening so nice spiritual gifts on heavenly taste, receiving one who repents, sincerely praying constantly and quietens! If we want to savor the feeling of Eternal Life, God through our, with feeling and palpation, let us have the hope of Jesus in the mouth, in mind, uninterruptedly, watching and epagrypnontas all. The awareness of our nothingness do have anystachta presence in all the actions of the mind, the memory of the divine presence, must be continuous us constantly.

"What mental freshness that lies in the soul and what security given, feeling that lives and exists in God the Father and he in it! What makariotero to require the measly man feel alive God by grace and communion!

"Blessed my children, Pirospatheite feel the great love of God for the world. Christ manifested 'in the flesh' and becomes man to gives us the celestial kingdom. By the sin of Adam and Eve lose the earthly Paradise, But instead of this the Christ, It gives us the celestial Paradise ". (Elder Ephraim Philotheou, Arizona)

Saint Emilianos the Simonopetritis explains what the Jesus Prayer:

"Prayer is the primary need of every soul, tree of life, which nourishes man and afthartopoiei, because the society makes the eternal and incorruptible God. As there is no man without soul, so do not mean someone who is alive "in Christ" without prayer. The Church lives through prayer, lives with the prayers of her children.

"The Jesus Prayer is the constant energy of the angelic hosts, bread, the life and language of these intangible beings, They are an expression of their love to God. So although the monks have flesh and struggling to imitate the angelic life experience. Light within them the divine love for Jesus Prayer:

• With the loud cry "Lord" glorify God, Of the glorious majesty, King and Creator of the visible and invisible creation, before whom shudder the Seraphim and Cherubim.
• With sweet and invocation "Jesus' invitation, We testify that Christ is present, He is our Savior and grateful and thank him, because he prepared Eternal Life.
• On Tuesday word "Christ" theologize, confessing that Jesus is the Son of God and God. Not saved us a man, neither angel, but Jesus Christ, the true God.
• Subsequently, the intimate application "have mercy on me", worship and please God have mercy on us fulfilling our demands the lifesaving, the desires and needs of our hearts. And that 'with', what extent has! Not only myself, but all Christians who are members of His body, which is the Church.
• Finish to complete our prayer katakleinoume with the word "sinner", confessing, since everyone we are sinners, as they confessed and all the saints and made with that sons of light voice.

»From all the above we realize that prayer involves thanksgiving, Eucharist, theology, prayer and confession. Yes, through the centuries the Church through prayer, firstly speaks to God, on the other excites her children and deifies. The echo fills the entire Creation and its energy synergizes the renovation of the world. The name of Jesus, The noetic prayer, as they say the Fathers, it is unguentarium. the opening, the lean and poured ointment, and filled with aroma of all the land.

"Chanted the" Lord Jesus Christ "and emitted the fragrance of the Holy Spirit, receive "engagement Divine Spirit". Because the Holy Spirit, because our universe, He gives us His descent and urges us to love of spiritual prayer and pray and even this place for us to forget ourselves and take our remanence, our dirt, poverty of our being. Because each of us is a temple of God and pray when we officiate the great mystery. What gives meaning to all life and our existence, because it gives us God, It is our prayer ". (Archimandrite Aimilianos the Simonopetritis)

The "mentally unceasing prayer" helps us gather our mind that is dispersed in the buildings and the focus on the Creator. The memory of the name of the Lord frees us from all negative spirits who nest in our heart, but also strengthens our heart and makes it capable to communicate with the Creator. Our mind tends to be dispersed in buildings, focus on intellect, the logic. Then is beside himself.

Man means over throsko, ie one who continually focuses to God. Unfortunately today there is reasonable, the intellect, which only works with the information received by the senses, which passes through the filter of beliefs. Thus perceives little from reality. The whole point, All vital information is received from the Grace of God, enlightenment of the Holy Spirit. So the man was operating before the fall of Adam and Eve.

Constantly remain in the heart, crying the name of the Lord to swallow the heart of the Lord and the Lord to swallow our heart, says St. John Chrysostom. Our mind is to God, that can communicate with God, when the energy of the mind is retracted "home" of, in his heart.

The return of the mind to the heart is done by the clean (to strip rubble to show God, like St. Paisius said) and the "incessant prayer". Then the Lord dwells in our heart and constantly nourishes us with His Grace. Without God we can not do anything, without the constant invocation of the name of the Lord we can not do anything.

The wish to have to say with humility and repentance, to emphasize the "have mercy on me a sinner". Most people do not realize our sinfulness. needs work, switching off the "I", to realize. If every time we do not realize our sinfulness, we can not clean our heart.

We cannot communicate with the Lord and our prayer will not work, if we do not have a pure heart. When purifies our heart, the Holy Spirit illuminates our, fills us and the main, the Holy Spirit only says the prayer within us. We hear the Holy Spirit to sing, as the Apostle Paul said "Abba Father".

St. John of Kronstadt praying continuously accomplishes the grace of the Holy Spirit. We describe how much love, peace and bliss continuously fills the heart of the "uninterrupted prayer, which called itself, from the heart ':

"With the systematic, persistent and proper use of the Jesus Prayer, the fighter not only exempt from the passions, but eventually acquires such a blessed state, that the prayer be called itself through the heart of. The 'unceasing prayer of the heart "causes the complete refinement of the human personality. The heart is then filled by irrepressible love for God and for the people and for every creature.

"The prayer of the heart makes the body peaceful and light, the soul becomes brighter, because he is with God and enjoy His Grace. Arriving in this state man lives fully in Christ and Christ lives in him. By repentance and by invoking the name of Jesus Christ be saved, scour, illuminating, sanctify, pacify, consolation. In this great and salutary name I find the greatest relief.

"The seamless and warm prayer increases our belief in the immortality of the soul and future blessedness of the spiritual world. Why all the blessings of the prayer derive from the Holy Spirit. All the power of prayer we owe to Him and to His Grace the Virgin Mother. That saves our souls from the miseries, gives us peace, joy and new life. we owe, also ,the angels and the saints ". (St. John of Kronstadt)

Conclusion: The purpose of the invocation of the Name of the Lord is to be able to surrender, to unite with God, can we attract the Holy Spirit. The noetic "unceasing prayer" helps us gather our mind that is dispersed in the buildings and the focus on the Creator.

With the "mentally unceasing prayer" Christ comes into us and cleanses us, It fills us with His energy, with divine Grace. The heart is then filled by irrepressible love for God and for the people and for every creature.

With cardiac prayer our masonry being inserted through the Spirit the realm of uncreated. God meets his love in prayer heart condition.

All the above is excerpted from my new book, and my books "That becomes the Miracle", "A Life Full of Light", "The Source of All".