Exploring Peace Meditations

Centering Prayer: 10 in the Morning

Whitney R. Simpson Season 22 Episode 5

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Today's practice takes us 10 minutes in silence. This practice of Centering Prayer has been transformational in my own life. Let's slowly increase time and quiet. Pay more attention to your body and welcome what you notice.

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Speaker 1

Hi, I'm Whitney and you're listening to Exploring Peace Meditations. As you get settled, I'll remind you that you can find more prayers and meditations at ExploringPeacecom. You can join our community and support this podcast at ExploringPeacecom slash community. I'm really excited that a new book will appear soon at Whitney R Simpsoncom so hopefully by now you settled in, found a posture in which you can breathe, relax your shoulders. Today's practice takes us from five minutes in silence last week to ten minutes in silence today.

Speaker 1

This practice of Centering Prayer has been transformational in my own life. It's not easy. That's why we usually slowly increase the time in the quiet. Today you might notice, as we extend our quiet, that your body may invite you to pay more attention to an ache or a pain or a twitch. Welcome what you notice. Invite God to be with you, to center, to be. I'll offer us a blessing and then I'll invite you to come to your anchor word, your centered word, your intentional word. If you don't have one, you could use the word peace, shalom, grace, breath out, soften your eyes If and when your mind wanders. Return to your breath, return to your word. Savor this quiet with God, creator. God. Thank you for a fresh new morning in which we can center our hearts, our minds and our bodies in your presence. Be with us now no-transcript.

Speaker 2

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Speaker 1

Gently drop your chin to your chest, let your head move from side to side, reach your arms overhead for a giant morning stretch, take a full breath in and a long breath out, and with that we say Amen, until next time. May God's peace be with you.