Exploring Peace Meditations
Seeking peace in your life? Exploring Peace Meditations offers you Soul Care through guided prayer and Christian meditation. Caring for your soul is vital to living a peace-filled and purposeful life. Join author, yoga teacher, spiritual director, and host Whitney R. Simpson for a regular dose of peace and calm for your breath, body, and spirit as you explore these practical meditations. Using yoga teachings and ancient spiritual tools such as the Prayer of Examen, Lectio Divina, and Breath Prayer allows Whitney to companion you on your spiritual formation journey. Are you a Peace Seeker? Join our community at ExploringPeace.com/community.
Exploring Peace Meditations
Centering Prayer: 5 Embodied Quiet Minutes
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Ever wondered how just five minutes of silence with God could transform your day? Pause and discover (or re-discover) the goodness of quieting your mind with God and then make it a practice to transform your life. Centering Prayer is a wonderful tool for resting in God's presence and is accessible to newcomers to meditation as well as seasoned practitioners. Let Whitney guide you into this time of centering then embrace just five embodied quiet minutes with God.
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Hi, this is Whitney and you're listening to Exploring Peace Meditations. If you've been here before, you know there's a practice that I enjoy and savor called Centering Prayer. This is an ancient practice of quiet meditation, a time of centering in God's presence. Sometimes people can feel overwhelmed with extended periods of silence, so we're going to start with about five minutes today. Whether silence is new or practiced for you, take a deep breath or practiced for you. Take a deep breath, exhale completely, let your body relax and invite your mind to settle.
Speaker 1I'd encourage you to practice in an upright seated posture with your back supported by a chair or a wall, but if that doesn't feel right today, take another shape, as long as you can remain alert and Feel the weight of your body supported by the surface beneath you. Let your eyes soften, relax your jaw, inhabit the body God gave you, breathe, be and then see if there's a word or phrase that resonates with you today. It could be presence, love. It could be presence, love, peace. Silently repeat your word, your intention, as you take your next few breaths. Let this word anchor your whole self in this present moment. As we enter this time of quiet, know that thoughts will come. That's normal. Let them. Go, invite your body, your breath to remain present for the next few minutes in silence. And when a thought arises and you need to center yourself again, repeat your word, your intention Presence, peace, love no-transcript in your name we pray Amen.
Speaker 1How does it feel to pause with your whole body for five minutes with God? Thank yourself, thank your God, thank your body and your breath. I thank you for exploring the gift of God's peace with me. You can find more of these prayers and meditations at exploringpeacecom. You can connect with me at WhitneyRSimpsoncom. Until next time, may God's peace be with you.
