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The experience itself is incredible. I agree with what you said about tuning into God’s frequency. God’s frequency is powerful and peaceful.
I found the experience to be quite powerful and relaxing(despite my experience being rather brief). I did find it interesting that our first and last breaths are a prayer.
I agree that these practices take a lot of training. Mediative and contemplative methods are tedious(no matter how simple they are advertised) to do well. With enough practice and with the help of the Holy Spirit can become less hard. It pays off as you get better as you start to feel good physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Frances,
I did place myself in the position of one of Christ’s disciples. Unfortunately this was sometimes interrupted due to not being able to fully practice this in a quiet setting. I pictured myself asking Jesus what shall we do with the people as they had no food.Hi Frances, great response to the assignment. I do like what you said about scripture and how we are helped in bad times. I agree that fellowship does help
Jerry,
I hope you were able to learn more and better incorporate contemplative prayer into your lifeBrandon,
I hope you were able to find the answers to your questions through this course. I personally do practice(or rather, increasingly attempt to) meditation. I have found it to be of great benefit but I do think my prayer life can always be improvedI hope to gain a better prayer life through this course. I hope that through an improved prayer life that I an better discipline myself and grow closer to God through an improved prayer life. While this may sound rather generic, I do believe that when is able to improve their way of praying that they can have better control of themselves(ie control over sins, a sense of mental calmness and a regimented routine). I write this as the world comes out of a pandemic where life as we knew it was thrown into chaos. We are naturally a regimented species and being in pure chaos and unease does not help our bodies, minds and our souls. Some turn to drugs to self medicate, others turn to fleeting pleasures(food, sex, drinking, etc) to avoid the problem. In the end, we are left with an existential void. In the case of this recent pandemic, we are left with a void and a foreboding sense of doom over our own mortality. Taking up a prayer life can help us to go inside ourselves and really reach out to Jesus.
