Imaging prayer.

Part of the process of seeing with spiritual vision is imaging. By imaging, you are allowing yourself to be part of that for which you pray. When you pray on behalf of another for health, you offer that prayer from your own vision of what it means to be healthy, the conviction of what health feels like. A prayer offered idly that someone may be healthy in the future, with no connection to what that health feels like, is empty. Those prayers are but words, and although the words are not necessary to reach God, the identification with that for which you pray is essential.