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Hygge Spiritual Practice: The Centering Prayer Ritual

4/14/2018

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This month, we're exploring the connection between hygge & spirituality. Or, in other words, what it would look like or feel like to create a hygge spiritual practice.

Contemplative or meditative practices seem perfect for making hygge moments spiritual.

You could start by heading for your coziest space and getting as comfortable as possible. But bring your cup of hot chocolate & your journal with you.

Once you're settled, you could try a contemplative practice like centering prayer...


"Centering Prayer is a meditative practice. However, it does not focus on words but instead on the places of interior silence and stillness where the divine abides, inviting practitioners toward a deeper connection. Centering Prayer slowly transforms us at our very core in a way that is beyond words, teaching us to not only abide in the presence of the Divine but also cultivating a sense of inner silence and stillness."

~ Read more on how to practice centering prayer


3-Step Hygge Ritual w/ Centering Prayer


Step One: Create the hygge moment ~ make yourself a cup of tea, grab your journal & light a candle, getting settled into comfort.

Step Two: Choose an amount of time to spend in centering prayer & begin. Breathe deeply, and stay open to a deeper experience of the truth of who you are, the presence of the divine and your connection to the divine. Some people focus on a word, like "peace," but it is not necessary if you'd rather not.

Step Three: Write out any insights or important thoughts in your journal & when you feel complete with the experience, blow out the candle.

Find out about other contemplative practices here.

Stay tuned for more later in the month about creating hygge rituals.

See you next time!


Love, Jeanine

8 Comments
Paul Taubman link
4/14/2018 08:43:59 pm

I "sorta" do this already, although I do not grab a cup of coffee and/or tea. I will get comfy and still and them try to clear my mind - almost a meditation type of state.

Afterwards I may or may not journal. Perhaps I can consciously journal after each session.

Thanks.
Paul

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Jeanine Byers link
4/14/2018 10:39:33 pm

That's great, Paul!! Sounds like you may only need to journal some of the time. That's really fantastic.

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Jen link
4/14/2018 09:07:26 pm

I started crocheting prayer shawls about 9 years ago. (It will be 9 in July.) At first, I would say a short, repetitive prayer with each stitch. Then I started saying a prayer of intent whenever I would start work on the shawl each time. Now it is as you describe, just a centering, somewhat meditative time. And it has evolved to include any knit or crochet project. That's my time for quiet, even if I am surrounded by people.

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Jeanine Byers link
4/14/2018 10:43:44 pm

Ooh, that sounds wonderful! Sometimes I try to have moments like that when I am making tea or stirring food. I try to infuse it with good things. But it would be lovely to have something creative like that that was spiritual.

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Martha link
4/14/2018 10:19:18 pm

I have a few places that I consider my coy place. One is when I'm outside early morning, I go to mom's garden. They other is my grandson's room he had when he lived with us when he was a baby until about 10 years old. Silly? Maybe but I have so much peace there, meditating and thinking of how proud I am of all his accomplishments in his 20 years.

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Jeanine Byers link
4/14/2018 10:45:54 pm

Awww! That's beautiful, Martha!! Not silly at all.

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Alice Gerard link
4/15/2018 01:39:44 am

In the past, I belonged to a centering prayer group. It was a very good, peaceful, and meditative sort of prayer. It was challenging for me to sit still that long and, sometimes, I experienced a monumental failure to keep from fidgeting. But centering prayer is good, and I even went on a centering prayer retreat, which was wonderful. I do love that sort of prayer.

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Jeanine Byers link
4/15/2018 04:37:58 pm

Oh, that's so cool, Alice!! You even went on a retreat. But I do understand the fidgeting. I have trouble sitting still fir a long time, too.

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