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Product: Centering Prayer and the Healing of the Unconscious
Description: In this searching study, Fr. Murchadh Fr. Ó Madagáin describes the life and thoughts of Fr. Thomas Keating, the Trappist monk who was one of the founders of the centering prayer movement. Centering prayer aims to reclaim the Christian contemplative and mystical traditions after centuries of neglect and to make it available for modern spiritual seekers. Fr. Ó Madagáin traces its roots back to the fourth- and fifth-century Desert Fathers such as Evagrius and John Cassian. He shows how it was used in the medieval classic The Cloud of Unknowing and practiced by saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila, then revived by Thomas Merton during the twentieth century.
Fr. Ó Madagáin illustrates how, by bringing the insights of contemporary psychology to bear on this ancient method of prayer, Fr. Keating has not only revitalized the contemplative tradition, but also has enabled it to become a powerful tool for people of faith to gain insight into themselves and God, whom Keating calls the "divine healer." Fr. Ó Madagáin also unpacks the processes at work in centering prayer and clears up some of the common misunderstandings that surround it.
Centering Prayer and the Healing of the Unconscious is an essential work for all those interested in the history and practice of centering prayer. In addition to describing the background of this unique and effective practice, Fr. Ó Madagáin offers unique insights into the ideas of one of its leading contemporary teachers and practitioners.
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Product: HOW CAN WE BECOME MORE AWARE OF THE TRUE SELF IN THIS POST-MODERN ERA? A study on Thomas Keating’s understanding of The Centering Prayer
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Product: Daily Nuggets of Truth: Wisdom for Centering Your Soul in Unsettling Times
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Product: Centering Prayer: A Contemplative Path to Virtuous Living
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Product: Centering Prayer: Sitting Quietly in God's Presence Can Change Your Life
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Product: Healing Our Violence Through the Journey of Centering Prayer
Description: Two internationally known spiritual guides explore integrating our inner and outer journeys. They challenge us to confront our inner and social violence and bring it to healing and transformation in a sacred and ecumenical context. Rohr and Keating each give insights on awakening to God's friendship, coming to know God and ourselves, growing in love through centering prayer, facing evil around us and our demons within us as well as opening our deep selves to divine therapy which heals our wounds. They invite us to become who we already are.

These conferences will appeal to those beginning and those more seasoned in centering prayer. The deep wisdom of two spiritual masters is a sacred and transforming gift plunging us into the ocean of divinity that surrounds us.
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Product: The Path of Centering Prayer
Brand: Sounds True
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Product: Practicing Mindfulness: 75 Essential Meditations to Reduce Stress, Improve Mental Health, and Find Peace in the Everyday
Brand: Althea Press
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Product: Centering Prayer Meditations: Effortless Contemplation to Deepen Your Experience of God
Description: David Frenette’s book The Path of Centering Prayer reenergized the Centering Prayer tradition with its fresh insights and teachings. This companion audio program - created to be equally rewarding as a stand-alone guide - gives listeners an immersive resource to learn contemplative prayer, step by step and in the moment. With clarity and compassionate presence, Frenette explains the essential principles of this contemplative practice for both new and seasoned practitioners, and then guides us experientially through core prayers and meditations including:

Giving God Consent to Act in You

Opening and Recognizing

Simplicity and Awakening

Gentleness and Effortlessness

Letting Go and Letting Be

Resting and Being

Embracing and Being Embraced

Integrating and Emerging

For Christians and meditators of all traditions drawn to silent communion with the Divine, Centering Prayer Meditations will enrich the experience of anyone interested in this revered contemplative path.
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Product: A Taste of Silence: Centering Prayer and the Contemplative Journey
Description: Like John Wesley or Jean Pierre de Caussade before him, Catholic priest Arico provides the devout with a model and method for the attainment of a deeper spirituality; unlike them, he feels free to draw wisdom not only from Christian and ancient models but also from Sufism and Thomas Merton to show us how 'God is calling us from our tombs' to the experience of 'divine union.' Arico's spirituality and warmth are profound, and his guide shall be well received by most Christian readers.—Library Journal
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Product: The Contemplative Journey: Volume 1: Contemplation and Transformation from Christianity's Mystical Tradition
Description: In the darkest hour of the darkest age, Christian monks developed a meditation tradition unique in the Western world. A 14th-century author described their profound mystical experience as entering the cloud of unknowing. Yet during the 500 years after this great monastic flowering, this precious tradition and the direct path to union with God it described was virtually lost.

For decades Father Thomas Keating, together with other monks, examined this great question: Could anyone enter the cloud of unknowing through a prayer practice specifically created to attain it? Keating reached back in time for clues about the prayer forms of the Christian mystics. He synthesized his work into a Centering Prayer method that has helped thousands of seekers travel the contemplative path to divine union.

From infancy, Father Keating teaches, we accumulate emotional layers, or programs, as a result of traumatic experiences. The practice of Centering Prayer engages directly with the unconscious and loosens old traumas that hinder your spiritual development. This form of divine therapy draws from a contemplative method that has brought profound inner transformation into the lives of thousands of practitioners.

The Contemplative Journey is Father Thomas Keating's great masterwork: a complete curriculum devoted to a Christian path for achieving the still point of resting in God.
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Product: Singing the Psalms: How to Chant in the Christian Contemplative Tradition
Description: Authentic Benedictine Chants You Can Learn at Home

Fifteen-hundred years ago, St. Benedict established a system of ora et labora prayer and work that monastics still follow today. Central to this prayerful integration of body and spirit is psalmody, or chanting the psalms. In Singing the Psalms, Episcopal priest Cynthia Bourgeault shows how the psalms can awaken rich spiritual and psychological insights accessible to you today, whatever your level of vocal skill or theological understanding.
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Product: Going Inside: Learning to Teach Centering Prayer to Prisoners
Description: In Going Inside, the companion volume to his Finding God Within, Ray Leonardini offers a practical manual for all those who are engaged, or are thinking of becoming engaged, with contemplative (or centering) prayer in prison. With advice from his own experience as well as that of prisoners themselves, Going Inside is an essential tool to enable your centering prayer groups to be effective and transformative for everyone involved.
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Product: Living in God: Contemplative Prayer and Contemplative Action
Description: In addition to learning practices to dispose yourself to Gods presence, you will be able to describe the experience and then live out of it.

You will also learn a method for tracking your actions and over a period of time learn how God is moving in your life and to where God may be calling you.
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Product: Following Jesus: Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety
Description: “Timeless wisdom for life from one of the great spiritual masters of our age.”—James Martin, S.J., author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage

In this never-before-published work of inspiration, the bestselling author of The Return of the Prodigal Son offers a compelling case for why Christianity is still relevant, beautiful, intelligent, and necessary in the modern world.
At one of the lowest points in Henri Nouwen’s life, he gave a series of lectures on the importance of following Jesus in an age of anxiety. Drawn from those talks, this new work reveals what sustained Nouwen to remain faithful to the teachings of Jesus and led him to become an icon of compassion and vulnerability. Here he writes eloquently about calling and purpose, fear and hope. And he explains why—with so many choices available to the twenty-first-century seeker—the greatest reward for those looking for spiritual direction is rediscovering Jesus’s teaching on love. Along the way, Nouwen offers warm, insightful, practical habits to help readers navigate the narrow, sometimes arduous, but ultimately fulfilling road of conviction and faith.

Praise for Following Jesus

“Few writers have influenced me more than Henri Nouwen. These newly published lectures offer fresh and timely insights amid the familiar cadences of Nouwen’s prose, written from a place of deep anxiety but even deeper hope.”—John Inazu, professor of political science, Washington University in St. Louis, author of Confident Pluralism
“In Following Jesus, beloved pastor and spiritual mentor Henri Nouwen guides the reader on the journey he has traveled as a follower of Jesus. Without minimizing the anxieties, fears, and brokenness that touch down in every reader’s story, Nouwen gently leads the way into a life that centers on Jesus and engulfs the follower with God’s love, a sense of belonging, and a purpose that endures. Truly a wise and welcome word for anyone in this age of anxiety.”—Carolyn Custis James, author of Half the Church: Recapturing God’s Global Vision for Women and Finding God in the Margins
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Product: Sacred Breath: 40 Days of Centering Prayer
Description: When life takes an unexpected turn that leaves you reeling, sometimes you have to remind yourself to just breathe. But God is closer than the air you breathe. Grounded in scripture and Christian tradition, *Sacred Breath** walks you through the practice of Centering Prayer and helps you breathe in deeply the presence of God.

Learn how to present yourself to God in silence twice a day without any agenda. Forty days of practical, encouraging meditations will help you get started in the rich experience of living in the awareness of God's love. The first 10 readings focus on receiving God's love, the second 10 on obstacles to our relationship with God, and the last 20 on the rhythm of receiving and giving in our walk with God. *Sacred Breath** includes scriptures, breathing exercises, and an outline for group meetings.
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Product: Sitting with God: A Journey to Your True Self Through Centering Prayer
Description: "Lewis presents an intimate view of his centering prayer journey. He helps us discover the contemplative life and who we are in the deepest sense, made in God’s image."
— Fr. Carl Arico, founding member of Contemplative Outreach Ltd., and author of A Taste of Silence
"This work offers a friendly and accessible approach to centering prayer that will be of great benefit to those new to the practice. Rich has a lovely way of inviting the reader in through honest reflections on his own experience, both struggles and graces. These stories offer comfort and gentle encouragement on the way."
— Christine Valters Paintner, author of The Soul of a Pilgrim
"Rich Lewis’s writing is unique in its simplicity and lack of pretense. And he is nothing if not honest, especially regarding his passion for centering prayer. In this book you will find down-to-earth spiritual practice that echoes throughout Rich’s life as a husband, dad, and financial consultant. Highly recommended!"
— Amos Smith, author of Be Still and Listen
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Product: Breathing Under Water Companion Journal: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Brand: Franciscan Media
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Product: Centered Living: The Way of Centering Prayer
Description: This look at the popular contemplative technique known as Centering Prayer is your key to a richer spiritual life. In easy-to-understand, non-technical language, internationally renowned author M. Basil Pennington combines testimonies of practitioners, updated guidelines, theological reflections, and helpful hints for teaching others in an exploration of all the essential information about Centering Prayer.
For millions of Christians worldwide, it is the experience of prayer rather than the words which constitute it that are most important. In its simplicity, Centering Prayer opens our hearts to God, cleanses the mind, and soothes the soul.
More than just a catalog of facts and practical suggestions, this book benefits even the most seasoned practitioner or teacher of Centering Prayer. However, the clarity of Father Pennington's approach also enables newcomers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, to develop a firm grasp of the practice.
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Product: Jesus and Buddha Meet in Stillness: A Beginner's Guide to Mindfulness Meditation and Contemplative Prayer
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Product: Centering Prayers: A One-Year Daily Companion for Going Deeper into the Love of God
Brand: Paraclete Press
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Product: Finding Grace at the Center (3rd Edition): The Beginning of Centering Prayer
Brand: SkyLight Paths
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Product: The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice
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Product: The World, the Flesh and the Devil: What Do We Do With Evil?
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Product: Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form
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Product: Prayer: Forty Days of Practice
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Product: An Invitation to Centering Prayer: Including an Introduction to Lectio Divina
Brand: Liguori Publications
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Product: Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer
Brand: Crossroad
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Product: The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living: Excerpts from the Works of Father Thomas Keating
Brand: Continuum
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Product: The 15-Minute Prayer Solution: How One Percent of Your Day Can Transform Your Life
Brand: Loyola Press
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Product: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
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Product: Is Centering Prayer Catholic?
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Product: Open Mind, Open Heart 20th Anniversary Edition
Brand: Bloomsbury Continuum
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Product: Centering Prayer for Everyone: With Readings, Programs, and Instructions for Home and Group Practice
Brand: Cascade Books
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Product: Journey to the Heart: Centering Prayer for Children
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Product: Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
Brand: Cowley Publications
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Product: The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind--A New Perspective on Christ and His Message
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Product: The Way of the Prisoner: Breaking the Chains of Self through Centering Prayer and Centering Practice
Brand: Lantern Publishing & Media
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Product: Forty Days to a Closer Walk with God: The Practice of Centering Prayer
Brand: Upper Room Books
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Product: Divine Therapy and Addiction: Centering Prayer and the Twelve Steps
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Divine Therapy & Addiction: Centering Prayer and the Twelve Steps
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