Prayer for Guarding the Eyes

Personal holiness – particularly guarding our eyes – is our mission on earth, but how can we attain it? Only Prayer… The following is an example on how to pray for enhanced personal holiness. I hope you find it useful:

I hereby connect myself through this session of hitbodedut to all the true Tzaddikim in this generation and all the true Tzaddikim who have departed, “the holy ones interred in the earth”, and especially our holy Rebbe, tzaddik, foundation of the world, the “flowing brook, source of wisdom”, Rebbe Nachman ben Feiga, may his merit protect us, amen.

Thank you Hashem for giving me the opportunity to talk to You for this half an hour. I am so blessed that You in your great mercy have given me the time right now to work on the main objective of my life: guarding my eyes.

Everywhere I go I get trapped, at the supermarket, at work, at the synagogue, even when I’m doing mitzvoth. My mind is cluttered with lustful images, fantasies and thoughts about forbidden things…

I’m only a simple Jew… a simple person in a generation that even our holy Sages of blessed memory admitted they didn’t want to be a part of. Why? Because the challenge would be so great to remain connected to You with pure thoughts.

Rabbi Shalom Arush teaches that we have to be thankful for our failures just as we are for our successes. So Hashem I give You thanks for my problem with my seemingly incessant need to look at women wherever I go. In fact it makes sense Hashem, You desire that I only attach myself to You with all my heart and soul- AND THAT IS THE ONLY WAY I’ll CORRECT THIS…….

Even though I try to keep Torah commandments like Shabbat and Tefillin it really doesn’t amount to anything if I am struggling from my true mission: To Guard My Eyes.  Only when I am clean from this does my Torah observance mean anything.

Hashem, thank You for every time that you helped me avoid looking at a woman. I literally face hundreds of tests each day. Thank You for all of the help that you have given me up to now, hinting to me that I’m approaching an area where I should look down or literally shut my eyes.

Over the last day I know there were many times where I slipped up either purposefully or accidently in thought or deed. I am so ashamed, since I still haven’t completely established the truth. That looking at a forbidden woman is like jumping off a sky scraper, it literally spells out death for my soul. I need your help Hashem because there are even times when I actually enjoy what I see… Day after day I am carelessly transgressing the 10 commandments, help me come back to You clean. At the same time help me not to despair and remember every time that you helped me pass a test and to be happy with myself.

Dear reader, take a few minutes to think about your day. What did you see which you shouldn’t. Make amends with Hashem while appreciating your successes as a gift… Take about 10 minutes, then continue on…

Please Hashem help me stop having the urge to look at women. Give me the inner strength to change my inherent nature. Please have mercy on me not to have any desire to see anything that is forbidden. Have mercy on me Hashem for I still am not on the level where I have totally corrected myself. But only You can help elevate me above these dark desires. Help me overcome them Hashem, please help me not to have any enjoyment from any forbidden sight.

Help me in Your great power to not look at any woman. Help me not to see or enjoy any body part of any woman. Help me to live a life of purity, Hashem only You can save me! Help me to understand that all of the evil in the world comes from the craving of women. Please help me draw the line Hashem in my brain and to totally make a change in my life to never look at women. There is no benefit in it at all to my body or soul. All it does is ruin my life. HELP ME INTERNALIZE THIS! Please Hashem, I am Your son. It's not easy for me because I’m just a simple man who is trying his best to uproot the negative evil inclination in my heart for women.

Give me the Freedom!!! Give it to me TODAY!!! Every day that I transgress I am seriously ruining my life!! Give me the desire and help me make the time every day to beg You for 30 minutes to guard my eyes!!!!!!!

Hashem!!!!! I don’t want to fail!!! My marriage is hurting because of this, my kids are suffering because of this – both in ways that I know and ways that I don’t know. Only You know how serious my problem is if I don’t fix it!!

Help me today to guard my eyes and not see anything excessive. Prevent me from having to socialize or converse with women. Help me avoid having to be around attractive women. You know this is my weakness, Hashem!! I’m not going to lie, I still am attracted to this filth. And because of this Hashem I am pouring out my heart to you now that you’ll save me and guard my life. Help me feel that You are protecting my eyes. Help me feel You in my life protecting my soul. Help me not feel any attraction to any woman Hashem!

Help me feel only love and attraction to my wife and to Your Torah, help me truly feel the pain of what happens to my soul when I slip up. Encourage me Hashem, lift me up and carry me throughout the day so that I won’t mess up and see any woman. Have mercy on me Hashem, the Evil Inclination is so strong inside of me and I have no hope of passing the day’s test without you carrying and protect me.

Have mercy on us all Hashem and cancel any decrees that are set out for the Jewish people. Have mercy on all of the People of Israel so that every family will have peace! Save us HASHEM from evil. Bring us the redeemer of Israel. Give us freedom from the Evil Inclination.

Please Hashem help us to have a clean day as a free gift. I know that I’m not on such a high level Hashem but I am demanding that you give this to me today! To have a clean day – what a joy! Protect me from seeing women.

Cancel my entire desire for the forbidden and help me only want to be closer to You Hashem and Your Torah. Please clean my heart from arrogance, and help me work on this trait day after day. Help me merit to pray for this every day of my life to ensure that I clean myself from this spiritual decay.

Dear Reader may you be blessed to life a totally clean life and be sure to pick up Garden of Purity, it will change your life!