Spiritual Awareness Practices for Advent with Pam and Marcella

You are invited to experience this new season by participating in spiritual awareness practices! Please join host, Pam Robertson and Wisdom Teacher, Marcella Kraybill-Greggo!  

These practices invite you to become more awake and aware of the ordinary moments of your everyday life.

Join us for 4 conscious prayers: The Body Prayer, Full Prostration, Listening to Your Life, and Contemplating Your Child or Loved One. 

The invitation is to sit quietly and allow this conscious work to enter into your everyday life.

1. BODY PRAYER PRACTICE:

Notice what happens in you as you do this exercise along with Pam and Marcella. 

2. FULL PROSTRATION

Something that you can’t find in your mind—because it lives in your body! 

3. LISTENING TO YOUR LIFE:

Here we invite you to PAUSE in the middle of the day and listen to the sounds of your life.

Notice the sounds that might be common like traffic, birds, and your refrigerator running. Now listen for sounds that you may not have noticed like your dog breathing down by your feet. Now see if you can open up your expanse by noticing the energy around you and in the world. See what you can access listening in on your life.

Take a deep breath and then go about your day. The idea is to see if you can expand your awareness into your life.

Breathing involves your body. As I slow down and exhale, notice how a deeper breath follows.

4. CONTEMPLATING YOUR CHILD OR LOVED ONE.

A conscious work practice with Visio Divina - Visio is taking a picture or an image and being present with it, noticing what happens when you sit with it. Notice the wave of Love—a reminder of how deeply you are loved by God.

Marcella says, “when you have a child you are gazing into the face of God—no matter what age they are.”

 

For more information: https://www.moravianseminary.edu/academics/certificate/spiritual-direction

Music by Robert Long: robertjohnlong@gmail.com

Learn more about Wisdom Waypoints here: www.wisdomwaypoints.org

*This conversation originally aired on The Talking Joy Podcast with host Pam Rotelle Roberson www.talkingjoy.org