Trust Your Experience As A Guide
Trust Your Experience As A Guide Spiritual Practice: Uniting Heart, Mind, and Body Practice-Based Spirituality: Beyond Belief A Different Way of Knowing Prayer Practice: Drumming Practice: Walking Meditation Practice: Ecstatic Dance ...
“The Work” Byron Katie
WHAT IS THE WORK? The Work is a simple yet powerful process of inquiry that teaches you to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering in the world. ...
Simple Lectio Divina
Simple steps of Lectio Divina: Take a little saying, Unpack it, Express wonder, thanks or frustration, Hide it in your heart and rest for a moment, or 20, Go forth and ...
Anglican Prayer Beads
Praying with beads is an ancient spiritual practice, finding a home in many spiritual traditions. It is a practice that integrates our body, mind and spirit in intentional prayer, helping focus ...
RAIN: A Practice of Radical Compassion
The acronym RAIN is an easy-to-remember tool for bringing mindfulness and compassion to emotional difficulty. Recognize what is going on; Allow the experience to be there, just as it is; Investigate ...
Christian Contemplative Practices – Method
Here are some resources to help you study the method of four Christian Contemplative Practices Centering Prayer The Method of Centering Prayer – The Prayer of Consent (brochure) The Method of ...
Meditation – RAIN: Working with Difficult Emotions
This guided practice applies mindfulness and self-compassion to challenging emotions. It is based on the acronym RAIN, and provides a four step practice that is accessible and effective, even at those ...
Mindfulness Exercise: Releasing Tension
The next exercise is to release the tension in the body. When you are truly aware of your body, you notice there is some tension and pain in your body, some ...
Mindfulness Exercise: Awareness of Your Body
The third exercise is to become aware of your body as you are breathing. “Breathing in, I am aware of my whole body.” This takes it one step further. In the ...
Mindfulness Exercise: Concentration
The second exercise is that while you breathe in, you follow your in-breath from the beginning to the end. If your in-breath lasts three or four seconds, then your mindfulness also ...
Mindfulness Exercise: Mindful Breathing
The first exercise is very simple, but the power, the result, can be very great. The exercise is simply to identify the in-breath as in-breath and the out-breath as the out-breath. ...
Lectio/Visio (Word Cloud) Divina
The sample word cloud presented below was algorithmically generated from the Center for Action and Contemplation’s Daily Meditations (Mar 4-10). See https://goo.gl/KSQo6p Lectio/Visio Divina helps us experience with our heart, mind, body, ...
Seven Paths of Spiritual Practice
1. Coming into presence The Means: conscious breath The Result: owning time, “seeing” The Quality Attained: being The Positive Ideals : huzur, spontaneity, ibn al waqt, taqwa, self-awareness Presence is the activation of an inclusive awareness that is ...
The Five Mindfulness Trainings
The Five Mindfulness Trainings represent the Buddhist vision for a global spirituality and ethic. They are a concrete expression of the Buddha’s teachings on the Four Noble Truths and the Noble ...