Finding Sanctuary
Monastic Steps for Everyday Life
Abbot Christopher Jamison
W & N
Meditation is one of the most important steps toward finding sanctuary
- Find a quiet place free from distraction
- Sit with your limbs uncrossed and with a straight back, hands in your lap
- Simply breathe at regular speed but breathe deeply and relax
- Close your eyes and think of a beautiful scene from the natural world
- Take a simple phrase and repeat it continuously in time with your breathing
Five Meditation Phrases
You may it helpful to use one of the following, traditional prayers
- Come and illumine my darkness
- Be still and know that I am God
- God be in my head and in my understanding
- Come Holy Spirit and inflame my heart
- Come Lord Jesus
Some people find listening to chant helps them prepare for meditation. Click here for a CD of chant by the monks of Worth.
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Richard and Judy
Daily Express
Finding Sanctuary is also available on CD . To listen to a clip click here