“Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.” ~ Matthieu Ricard Renowned meditation researchers Cortland Dahl, Antoine Lutz, and Richard Davidson of The Center for Healthy Minds put meditation practices into three families: attentional, constructive, and deconstructive.¹ Attentional: Beginning with the attentional family, these are meditation practices that include counting the breath, body scanning,… Read More »
Pray Without Ceasing
What does it mean to pray without ceasing? Does this mean we never stop to do other things, or does this mean that we need to learn to multi-task? How often are we supposed to pray? Should we pray only in the morning and before we go to sleep? What if we only pray while… Read More »
Praying With Fervor
Learning to pray in public and private can be challenging, and why do you think that is? If you learned to pray as a child, your prayers were intentional and full of faith. That is why Jesus told His audience, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never… Read More »
God Speaks; But How?
If you are a person of faith, which I hope you are, how do you communicate with God? People of faith describe various ways they attempt to communicate with God. The most common approach is through prayer and meditation, others through traditional and non-traditional religious practices, e.g., reading scripture, singing, dancing, art, writing, poetry, listening… Read More »
