Sentences with phrase «in prayer and meditation»

The 950 silver charm bears the symbol for om, a sacred sound and traditional mantra used in prayer and meditation.

Because of its emotional and spiritual affect, the high vibrational aroma of frankincense essential oil is commonly used in prayer and meditation, helping a person drop out of their mind and Ego and move into presence with their spirit or center of consciousness.

A cell is where you go to spend time in prayer and meditation.

The current interest in prayer and meditation, especially the recovery of those neglected disciplines that lie within our own Christian tradition, is producing an increasing number of persons who have the skills and insights to provide spiritual direction.

The founders had them in their home, read the bible and in prayer and meditation with & for the addict.

Presumably he spent this time in prayer and meditation, trying to determine what God's plan for him was.

My failure to realize what was happening to my mind sooner, has to do with the fact that Christians are told that they must draw close to God in prayer and meditation, that they should walk with God and meditate upon his ways, develop a close and personal relationship with god and God will lead and direct them and they should trust god for his guidance because he will tell them what to do.

Furthermore, if we truly come to care for the whole world, we can not be satisfied to relate to it only in prayer and meditation.

If you can not be apart from others, you can not engage in prayer and meditation and thus can not enter into genuine relations with God.

Not exact matches

My body had not quite adjusted to the time change, but within minutes (as compared to an hour or more in the past), I was wide awake and starting my «miracle morning» routine, which involved reading, prayer / meditation, and light exercise with a healthy dose of good, old fashioned peace and quiet.

Use prayer, meditation, or just focused thought to tap in and channel the energy in positive ways.

While he heard about a wide variety of habits, most nurtured their bodies in the morning with water, a healthy breakfast, and light exercise, and they nurtured their minds with meditation or prayer, inspirational reading, or journaling.

«Neglected Christian truths can be revitalized only when by prayer and long meditation we isolate them from the mass of hazy ideas with which our minds are filled and hold them steadily and determinedly in the focus of the mind's attention.»

Prayer and meditation are one in the same.

But there is a difference between believing in an all knowing God, who listens to our prayers and pleas and judges whether or not to answer them... and believing in a divine connectedness that binds us al together and that is a source of «energy» that we can tap into thru prayer or meditation.

What if we let statistics and demographics be forgotten and allowed prayer, meditation, fasting and reflection lead us to God's answers about what it takes to equip our people to share their faith, even if it takes us in unpopular directions?

In Revelations, when the sun and moon fail to give their light, it far more likely to mean that prayer and meditation cease to provide a link to God anymore, rather than that the actual sun and moon are darkened.

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

This is perhaps the single best way to carve out some extra time in your day for prayer and meditation.

Prayer walking, guided meditation, and lectio divina can wield wonders in the hands of a mature Christian, counselor, or spiritual director.

Prayer and meditation works in ALL religions.

However we may feel about adoration and praise, including it in «vocal» prayer or letting it serve as a kind of borderline approach to «mental» prayer, it is obvious that when we come to meditation we are concerned with a kind of exercise that can quite readily be carried on with no verbal articulation u such.

That connection I felt while standing or kneeling at the altar in prayer was found in a drum circle and in a Buddhist meditation and other places and situations.

Now meditation as an exercise in prayer is no different from this sort of natural and normal human experience, except that it is thought about God, about God's character and his activity in the world.

In the churches also the renewed emphasis on contemplative meditation or «centring prayer» reflects the desire to discover and set free the Spiritual Power which dwells in the heart of every persoIn the churches also the renewed emphasis on contemplative meditation or «centring prayer» reflects the desire to discover and set free the Spiritual Power which dwells in the heart of every persoin the heart of every person.

There is no denying that the various styles of prayer, adoration, meditation, contemplation, thanksgiving and supplication are all spoken about, but because the speakers talk about prayer in a familiar way they do not really cover specific types of prayer.

Moreover, in The Divine Milieu, Teilhard reveals that a religious life which would respond to the death of God can not direct its prayer or meditation to a transcendent or numinous realm, but instead must open itself to a divine «center» that fills the whole body of the cosmos, and a «center» that has no existence apart from the movement of the cosmos itself.

Basically it is a way to learn relaxation techniques, which in religious language are often called meditation and prayer.

My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.

As a result, I believe the modern day Church needs to be told to hear a pointed message — Do we not have homes in which to worship through prayer, meditation, Scripture, singing and fasting?

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

when they engage in intense prayer and meditation.

but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.

The work done by psychologists / mental health practitioners / neuroscientists indicate that intense / deep prayer and meditation trigger different responses in people as per the various references which I provided in my previous comments.

On researching my experiences I discovered that when some persons engage in intense spiritual practices like intense prayer, meditation etc. it induces psychotic and psychic symptoms as I described above.

Based on your comments above regarding the Buddhists monks, it is clear / obvious that if I didn't experience adverse effects when engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation but instead experienced oneness and tranquility just like the Buddhist monks then for sure, you wouldn't accuse me of being an unorthodox enthusiast engaging in self - manufactured religion.

All these scriptures / Biblical teachings created a problem for me as over the years when I would experience psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena as a result of intense / deep prayer and meditation, I actually thought that God was trying to show me a sign or tell me something or he was leading me in a particular direction.

And external based: go to baptism, go to communion, say your prayers, read the Psalms, yes, do think about all that, as in meditation, sing songs, and enjoy all that realizing that you are indeed, as the promises declare, a dear, forgiven child of God, no strings attachAnd external based: go to baptism, go to communion, say your prayers, read the Psalms, yes, do think about all that, as in meditation, sing songs, and enjoy all that realizing that you are indeed, as the promises declare, a dear, forgiven child of God, no strings attachand enjoy all that realizing that you are indeed, as the promises declare, a dear, forgiven child of God, no strings attached.

I engaged in intense prayer and meditation for quite a few years from adolescence on into adulthood and it seems to me that I succeeded in altering my brain's neurophysiology / chemistry significantly to the point where I could make a living from being a psychic or a spirit medium.

If I came on here with nothing but praise for intense / deep prayer and meditation claiming just how beneficial it is, then you would without a doubt be in favour of intense / deep prayer and meditation......... you would be singing a different tune.

Here he emphasizes the importance of prayer, thanksgiving, scripture reading, meditation, sacraments and work in a Christian's life.

Following further prayer and meditation, the retreatants are given the opportunity to receive the Sacrament of Penance, and then to spend time with the healing love of Jesus in Eucharisticadoration.

Bonhoeffer's popular book Life Together deals with the practical relations of the church's life in Christ, including his concept of Christian community; how the community should worship by always including scripture, hymns and prayer both individual and common; personal worship that includes meditation, prayer and intercession; the problems of the church that require learning control of the tongue, meekness, listening, forbearing and proclaming.

Needed is a foundation for uniting a radical understanding of God's action in history with radical individual and corporate discipleship in the world — namely, reflection which results from depth experience, the spiritual life, the interiorization of faith through meditation, prayer and corporate worship.

In this context affirmative prayer, meditation, and so forth, may be viewed as the most effective actions to bring about positive social change.

Others forms of meditation e.g. mouthing RCC Mass prayers, saying rosaries / prayer beads, staring at walls cross-legged, statues or cows, drinking beer et al are, although some being enjoyable, are still a waste of time and sometimes dangerous as in saying a rosary while driving.

The participant would be urged to attend worship services, participate in Bible studies, meet with a mentor for spiritual guidance, go to prayer meetings, participate in meditation, and go to special retreats, with spirituality as the prime goal of the meetings (pp. 314 - 15).

Urging clergy and men of religion to renew or revive the practice of prayer, particularly meditation; (2) Distinguishing between the use of alcohol which does not produce a chronic alcoholic and that in which there is «the allergic nature of true alcoholism»; (3) Stressing that «elimination of the phenomenon of craving that follows the treatment does not constitute a cure [but that] the final cure rests with themselves [alcoholics in the second phase of alcoholism]»; (4) Advocating «moral psychology» in achieving entire recovery from alcoholism; (5) Describing the success of the AA.