Yogananda s 10 steps for using prayer demands 1). Select a demand according to your need. 2).

Calm your mind. 3). Meditate on the meaning of the demand until it becomes a part of you. 4). Saturate the demand with devotion and meditate upon it. 5). Meditate more deeply, increase your devotion, offer the demand as your own heart s outburst. 6). Imbue yourself with faith that your heart s craving is being felt by God. 7). Feel that God is listening to the silent words of your soul. 8). Be thoroughly convinced that He has listened to you. 9). Go about your duties, seeking not to know whether God will grant your demand. 10). Unceasingly meditate on God.