I am taking a class on spiritual growth this semester. I love it!! We are practicing a prayer technique devised by my professors, who after having studied many prayer practice found that multiple prayer practices pretty much came down to a few steps--so we are learning these. I thought this would be a good place, not to reveal my prayers, but to note the practice. Therefore I'll post more as the semester goes on but for now as far as we have gotten in three weeks is:
1) Pay attention to your breathing. What is the silence like? What is the feeling there in the silence of your own breath? Sit with it.
2) Breathe. What is in the silence? How does what comes up feel in your body, and where do you feel it?
3) Breathe. What do you feel in the silence? Sit with it. Will it show itself to you? What does it look like?
Prayer is vital to our spiritual lives, vital to becoming our authentic selves, but prayer is not always as easy as it seems, nor as easy as we think it should be. Prayer is "the real work" of our lives and sometimes it is quite hard. But we must sit with it. We must be. and allow ourselves to be as we really are.
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I am so glad you're taking that class. I enjoyed my prayer class and sometimes wish that I took more time myself for contemplative prayer. It was great seeing you this week.
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