Prayer and meditation
My personal practice
I doubt I could get through many days without the grounded and expansive support of prayer and meditation. Certainly my life would look very different, and contain fewer blessings.
Yet I am not a follower of any one religion or school of meditation. I find my own way, and love to be in any group which turns around a deep and living spirituality, with openness and authenticity.
I run workshops around the topic of prayer where people of any religion or none explore and share together, and where I offer several maps I have developed about prayer.
Meditation is a wide word. For me it encompasses a range of practices of mind, heart, body and spirit that I am familiar with and sometimes share with others.
I ponder on the question, “What is the difference between prayer and meditation?”
When through meditation I am immersed in subtler, higher energies, then I sometimes bring my attention to people I want to 'pray' for.
It feels like inviting them into the blessing of this 'higher' energy. To receive it deep in their beings. To soak it up, as I am doing. For me, this is one form of prayer.
NVC & Prayer - a special kind of communication
Since 2018 I've been running this as an online course, for people of any religion or none.
You can see a page about the workshop here.
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Praying here and now
How can there by such beauty
such horror
in our world
let's hold each other
in our despair
our hopelessness
be still
listen
do you hear a sound
deep within
the sound
of love
quiet now
let the sound ring
through you
beyond you
into our world
let it ring
and reach the ones
who need it
under the rubble
of hardship
destruction
and the ones
buried in riches
luxury
unbury us all
let the bell
of your heart ring
sing out
from your deep silence
