The religious find strength through God; this we know. But a new study conducted by Prof. Malt Friese and Michaela Wanke suggests that even non-believers can get in on the action.

How do prayer and meditation affect brain activity?  Dr. Andrew Newberg, MD, is the Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomson Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College, and he has studied the neuroscientific effect of religious and spiritual experiences for decades.

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The Jesus Prayer Introduction According to Mahatma Gandhi, reciting God's name with faith would cure a man of any disease...

In a world of constant noise and chaos, it is sometimes difficult to recognize God's voice and understand what he is trying to say. Here are six ways...

There is something special about taking a step back from your normal active life randomly during the day and pausing to reflect upon it, to give thanks for friends, to bless those are struggling, to simply enjoy the moment.

Henry David Thoreau states happiness can be achieved not through the chase, but through focused attention. "Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if ...

Untold hours in meditation may rewrite neural connections in the brain — and how you see the world.

1. Teach your practice to a novice who is hungry to learn.

2. Practice in secret.  There is a temptation to get “credit” for our practice, from friends or a teacher.

Maybe people that we work with in spiritual direction/mentoring find it hard to be still with Jesus. When they get alone and quiet themselves for prayer they have trouble settling down. Their bodies are antsy. Their minds are restless and wander from one thought to another. 

Using short phrases from Scripture is a way to practice our abiding in prayer. It’s a way into contemplative prayer in which we seek to be still with Jesus and grow in his peace and power.

I find a lot of people struggle with the kinds of praying where it comes to being quiet and listening. It could be our ADD culture. It could be that we prefer being in control...and we are in contr...

For those unfamiliar with the term, mindfulness is the English term for Buddhist meditation. The practice found its way into the therapy world in large part due to its demonstrated efficacy in stress reduction and preventing relapse of clinical depression. The latter finding came as a great surprise in the most unexpected of places – the stereotypically stuffy, bow tie-wearing British accent-donning academic world of Oxford University. The academic world, which is leery of all things religious, made the leap of accepting and promoting a religious practice in treatment of depression because they recognized that it works. What about the Christian world?

Prayer series: Click | View Series In Hebrew thought, to meditate upon the Scriptures is to quietly repeat them, giving oneself entirely to God, and abandoning outside distractions.

"By embracing the thing you once defended yourself against, you are actually disarming it.“ The three step process of the Welcoming Prayer Finding & Feeling it Welcoming it Letting it go Find I...

The soul is already clear about who we are and what we want: it’s the mind that gets in the way, the intellect. As we connect with our own essence through meditation, we enliven its intelligence, and our connection to it.

Meditation is simply a time in which to plant a seed. Pay attention to the desires, practice, be a good listener, stay in your integrity, and pay attention to the clues along the way, and your desires will manifest.