Learning How to Stop: Centering prayer

Our minds can be so busy, but learning how to stop is so crucial to our wellbeing. Perhaps centering prayer offers some help. 

I was watching a two-year-old boy the other day. He was full on in active mode. Walking here and there, playing with this and that.

But his mother knew what was coming. He was going to come to a stop.

A little but grumpy, a little more wanting cuddles, a little more rubbing eyes.

She picked him up, took him to his bed, and a few moments later, he was asleep.

All that activity and the changes going on in his growing body resulted in the need for a nap.

Slowing down and stopping is essential for anyone at any age.

We think we might miss out, there is so much to do, but stopping is essential for deep soul work to be done.

How are you at stopping?

Does the anxious mind demand resolution?

Does the depressed place long for a friend?

How can I still my mind?

How can I come to a stop?

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