Welcoming Prayer | Christian Meditation

In Welcoming Prayer, we consent to God’s presence and action in our emotional reactions to life experiences. Welcoming Prayer is an invitation to deepen our relationship with God through consenting to God's presence. The prayer helps to dismantle the emotional programs of Enneagram Triads (Body, Heart & Head) and to process our emotions by addressing them where they are stored — in the body. The Welcoming prayer was created by Mary Mrozows and furthered through Father Thomas Keating's ministry.

Background music by Chris Collins

Transcript

I want to invite you to close your eyes or have a soft gaze in front of you if that feels more comfortable. And as you close your eyes to take a deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth to settle in to the chair you're sitting in to feel your feet on the floor with the earth supporting you to feel your seat in the chair to elongate your spine but allow your shoulders to settle in and continue to breathe deeply. As you settle into that space I want to invite you to consider something that's heavy on your heart something that feels overwhelming maybe it's a conversation that didn't go well maybe it's a relationship that just feels stressful maybe it's a circumstance that feels so challenging maybe there's a loss and you're experiencing grief. I want to invite you to picture what's heavy in your mind whether it's the person the conversation is with you or with your partner. I want you to be there to get a sense of that overwhelm that heaviness to sink into it and continue to breathe deeply as you do. And with that heaviness in mind I want to invite you to consider what emotion is coming up for you but also to feel it in your body as you breathe deeply and sink into the present moment what is that heaviness that circumstance feeling in your felt sense maybe there are knots in your stomach maybe there's a heaviness on your chest maybe there's a buzzing sensation at the end of your fingertips maybe there's a tightness in your throat or rigidity in your jawline what does it feel like in the felt sensation the felt sense of your body and as you consider the felt sense I want to invite you to observe it non-judgmentally with a gentle inquiry about what emotion is there maybe there's some sadness maybe there's a feeling of betrayal a feeling of loss fear concern anger frustration what emotion comes up for you in this heaviness and as you name the emotion or maybe not maybe just allowing it to be there I want to invite you just to sink into it to imagine your breath going into the places in your felt sensation that feel uncomfortable offering that life force offering some comfort support not trying to change or fix it but allowing it to be allowing the sadness to be the fear to be the anger to be continue to breathe deeply as you sit with that emotion welcoming it and allowing it to be when you're ready I want to invite you to consider God's presence to consent to the presence of God in this emotion with you again not to fix it or change it but to allow God to be a part of this experience with you to join you in the anger to join you in the sadness to join you in the fear allowing God to be present there with you sometimes in that experience there's a lightness there's a release or a shifting of the felt sensation of your body and if that happens allow it to be feel that lightness feel that release and if it still feels heavy that's okay to allow God to meet you in that space allow God to be present with you in it and happiness allow God to hold you there continuing to breathe deeply to sink into that present moment into that moment with God's presence with you and when you're ready I want to invite you to release that emotion release the need to control or change or shift that emotion release the need for affirmation or validation to cover over that emotion release the need for a sense of certainty or safety or survival around that emotion release the need to try to control it in any way but instead letting it go and releasing it to God allowing the emotion to be and then when you're ready with God's presence supporting you allow it to go.

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Thank you!!! ❤️

A fantastic introduction to a very benefitial practice 🙏

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