Sentences with phrase «of prayer and meditation»

I enjoy spending time with family, traveling as much as possible, reading to learn and just for fun, music and films from around the world, gardening and bird - watching in my backyard, working with my husband on our fixer - upper, walking, biking the NCR trail and the peaceful solitude of prayer and meditation.

The psychological benefits of prayer and meditation have been well studied, but many people find it difficult to «turn - off» and calm the mind.

He has also written an introduction to each visit that highlights key aspects of the prayer and meditation which follow.

Why not just call it the National Day of Prayer and Meditation?

We've pinpointed those regions of the brain that «light up» in moments of prayer and meditation; we've changed the sociability patterns of many animals.

Writings about the early desert hermits tell of the seductress somehow finding her way to a solitary who leads a life of prayer and meditation.

Certainly every priest or pastor worth his or her salt will be one who himself — or herself — seeks to live as a Christian disciple; and that means having the habit of prayer and meditation.

What would it mean for me if I went through my entire life as a human being never experiencing the energies that are biochemically and electromagnetically produced during periods of prayer and meditation?

A stone and a bucket of water, a map and a compass, bread and wine all became instruments of prayer and meditation.

Some religions say that the sun and the moon stand for the practices of prayer and meditation.

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.

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.»

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.

Prayer is a form of meditation and a visualization of what you want.

For me prayer is a form of meditation, a way of communicating with the Divine Being and we can pray anywhere we want.

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.

Shortly after I first met my friend and mentor Ray Ortlund, he gave me a copy of his book A Passion for God: Prayers and Meditations on the Book of Romans.

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

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.

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 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.

To stay spiritual fit, I observe a regular morning time of prayer, meditation, and reflection.

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.

I learned about all sorts of management techniques, from talk - therapy, to meditation, to hormones, to surgery, to prayer, to vitamins, to exercise... and experimented with them all.

Although prayer may — and usually does — involve words, meditation, emotion, and action, it is no one of these by itself.

It means that effortful adherence to religious or philosophical dictums (often requiring meditation, prayer or moral education), though clearly valuable and capable of producing results, is not the only way to go.

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.

Of course that means a person would have to actually study and read the Bible ENTIRELY, along with prayer and meditation.

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.

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.

And certainly there are other kinds of prayer that can have meaning for us: prayers for guidance, prayers of praise, prayers whose goal is meditation on God or a feeling of union with God.

Some that have helped my dear friends: theology, solitude retreats, liturgy, guided meditation, Taize, inductive Bible study, seminary, Lectio Divina, reading the mystics and Desert Fathers, travel, silence, serving, fasting, the Prayer of the Examen.

It's all my fault that I pushed myself over the edge by self - inducing an altered state of consciousness through intense / deep prayer and meditation.

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.

I have had to be doing a lot of self - therapy to rescue my brain from the adverse psychological experiences which I have had as a result of intense prayer and meditation.

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.

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.

For the record, I wasn't a part of a charismatic religion when I experienced adverse psychological reactions to intense prayer and meditation.

Fasting and penance are an essential part of this annual pilgrimage, but so are works of charity, prayer and meditation.

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.

They opted to end the year with five weeks of various prayer experiences: intense silent prayer and Taizé chants; the sharing of bread and the cup, combined with a spontaneous blessing of one another; Zen - type silence; and guided meditations on gospel scenes.

Through practices such as meditation and affirmative prayer (sometimes called «spiritual mind treatment»), transformation of the individualized mind, or «consciousness,» may be accomplished, along with a corresponding transformation of life experience.