Meditations
Video 3 — Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing
June 19, 2020
By Kathy Keary
Focusing is a life-giving spiritual meditation that honors the wisdom that lies within us. We've discussed the method and demonstrated it. Today, I'll walk you through a guided meditation using focusing.
The Healing Power of Contemplative Prayer
June 15, 2020
by Kathy Keary In our world today, so much is happening. It can gnaw at our sense of well-being. A c...
Video 2 — Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing
June 10, 2020
By Kathy Keary
If you experience stresses in your life or are weighed down by emotional baggage, you may find the focusing method to be freeing. In this video, we demonstrate how to do focusing.
Focusing: Reverencing the Wisdom of the Body for Healing 3
June 8, 2020
By Kathy Keary
We've looked at the background and mechanics of Focusing. Now, I will discuss the topic on a more personal level covering a few points about my own experience of focusing in hopes that it will encourage you to give this life-giving practice a try.
Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing 2
June 1, 2020
By Kathy Keary
Part 2 of 3 Parts. The first article in this series introduced you to “focusing,” a tool spiritual directors use to help directees identify and care for emotions by paying attention to one’s body. This week we take a more detailed look at the specific steps involved in focusing.
Focusing: Listening to the Wisdom of the Body for Healing 1
May 27, 2020
By Kathy Keary
Society teaches us to suppress our feelings and to distract ourselves from our emotions rather than to care for them. If you found a way to listen to the wisdom of your emotions as revealed in your body and care for them in a life-giving way, would you try it?
Using Our Bodies in Prayer
May 26, 2020
By Kathy Keary In our series on contemplative living, an element that stands out is that prayer goes...
The Fruits of Contemplation
May 19, 2020
By Kathy Keary
Six months after incorporating centering prayer into my day, I noticed a shift in my inner world. I felt a calm — a sense of peace that found its way into my response to life. This is the fourth part of my four-part series on centering prayer and contemplation.
Contemplation: Going Deeper into Silence
May 13, 2020
By Kathy Keary
In our last two articles, we explored the sacred symbols of the word, the breath, and the image. Over time our use of a sacred symbol will diminish. We will no longer rely on it to take us to a place deep within where we commune with the living God. In Part 3, we go deeper into the silence.
Contemplation: The Use of Breath and Image in Centering Prayer
May 11, 2020
By Kathy Keary
In our introduction to centering prayer, we discussed using the sacred word as a method of expressing our intent to be open to the indwelling presence and action of God in the deepest center of our being. We now turn our attention to other sacred symbols: the breath and the image.