Centering Prayer: Open My Heart to God’s Love
On workdays, my first centering-prayer sit is at 5:45 a.m. I always feel some anxiety after I wake. Then I retreat to the basement, light a candle, and sit on a couch. It wakes…
Centering Prayer Beginner Tips
When people try centering prayer for the first time, I encourage them to simply pray daily as long as they can for thirty consecutive days, and mark it on the calendar. Sits will be…
Centering Prayer: A Long Term Marathon with God
Centering prayer is powerful, but it is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. If we are faithful to our practice, our practice will be faithful to us. Our work is to show up each day—to…
Awakening To I Am Love: Preface
The preface from David Youngren’s new book, Awakening To I Am Love: How Finding Your True Self Transforms Your Wellbeing, Relationships, and What You Do. The phrase I am Love can be both empowering and…
Centering Prayer: Enter the Larger Mind
We best understand God when we try not to understand God. This goes back to having a beginner’s mind. We maintain a posture of openness. We let go and admit that we don’t know. We…
David Youngren: Awakening To I Am Love
Everywhere we look, the us vs. them and the good vs evil narratives seem to dominate our political, civil, and religious discourse. Yet many of us have this sense that in the midst of our…
