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: 10 in the Afternoon
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This practice of Centering Prayer is transformational. Pay attention to an ache, pain, or twitch. Welcome what you notice. You only need 10 minutes in silence. Invite God to be with you, to center, to be. Savor the quiet with God.
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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 1This 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, light. Now take a full breath in and a long, extended 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 and our minds and our bodies in your presence. Be with us now as we enter this new day.
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Speaker 1Gently 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.
