Welcome to another one of what I like to call a guided meditration.
If you're like me and possibly grew up Catholic,
You might have said this prayer a lot without really feeling the prayer.
Without really opening yourself to it.
We kind of learn something as we grow up and we just say it sort of out of habit without really embodying it.
So setting the space for meditation and shining new light on it allows us to allow it to sink in at a deeper level.
So begin to close your eyes,
Find your comfortable seat.
And I invite you for this meditation to bring your palms facing up towards the sky.
And this will signify a more receiving gesture so that we can receive the blessings that this prayer has.
And at any time as we go through it,
If you feel more comfortable bringing your hands to a prayer to signify the act of devotion,
You're more than welcome to.
With the back of your palms face down,
Use that to lengthen your spine up.
Relax the shoulders.
Allow the sides of the neck to get long.
And relax the lower jaw from the upper jaw.
Soften the brow.
Relax the belly.
Relax the mind.
Feel the connection of the back of your hands on your thighs.
Your tailbone on your chair or your cushion.
And start to come into the rhythm of your breath.
Allowing each inhale to expand and fill the sides of the ribs,
The back body.
And each exhale to ground and release you back down.
Following that fluid rhythm to get ourselves centered and ready to receive what we need to receive.
Repeat Begin now to use the energy of the breath to send down through your body and specifically down through your hands.
So that's almost as if you're breathing in the outside energy and sending it to the palms of your hands.
And if you'd like,
It might feel right to imagine that the energy is coming in as a beautiful white light.
And you're sending it down into your arms,
Into your palms,
And almost as there's this circular ball of white light just above your palms.
Furthering your connection with the Divine.
Signifying the bright light that we come from.
And as we move through our prayer,
We're going to say it once through and then we're going to break a few verses down.
And allow ourselves to meditate on it.
Our Father,
Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from all evil.
Amen.
Our Father,
Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy kingdom come.
Now if you are a Buddhist practitioner at all,
You might see this as the enlightenment of all beings.
Thy kingdom come,
God's kingdom on heaven,
On earth.
Maybe take a few rounds of breath meditating on your part in your own spiritual journey in helping the enlightenment of all beings.
In helping thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
If you're someone that's looking for maybe their life purpose or how you are best serving others.
I believe it is embodied in that verse.
Because it is your highest expression of love,
Of service,
That is the highest expression of what spirit and what God wants to move through you.
Because heaven is just a perception away.
And our journey here is not outward,
But an inward transcendence of our perception.
Take a moment to meditate on what yours and God's and the spirit's and the universe's will for you may be.
So that you may experience heaven on earth.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And lead us not into temptation.
Give us the resources,
The abundance,
What we need today in order to fulfill the highest good for our lives.
Give us the peace,
Love,
The financial abundance.
So that we are not led astray,
That we are supported.
And deliver us from all evil.
And evil being what our minds can do to us.
The doubts,
The fears,
The depressive states,
The anguish.
All of it,
Allow us to transcend so that we can perceive correctly.
So that we can perceive how you do.
And again,
Experience our heaven on earth.
Amen.
You're welcome to run through the prayer silently in your mind again or for the next few moments maybe meditate on another verse that may resonate with you.
The prayer is silenced by the prayers.
Try to pay homage or to chant,
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And as I'm meditating here,
I'm noticing that we did miss a line in the prayer.
Forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And instead of going back,
I think that this is a way to really emphasize this line of this prayer.
To live in a forgiving way.
To love our neighbor.
To understand that we are all working as hard as we can on this journey.
And that we make mistakes.
And as we leave with a compassionate and forgiving heart.
We are able to really experience the love and the peace and the joy.
Forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And slowly begin to come back to the back of your hands,
On your thigh.
To the feeling of your tailbone on your chair.
Maybe start to take a few deeper breaths.
Releasing any energy into the palm or any light.
And whenever you feel complete with your prayer.
You can open your eyes and come back to your space.
Namaste and Amen.
