Meditation as Passive Prayer | How to Heal Part Five

I was in the height of my healing journey when a practitioner I was working with challenged me to think of meditation as passive prayer.

When she said that, something shifted into place, and passive prayer has been part of my morning routine ever since.

I’m a very action oriented person. It’s hard for me to sit still. I want to be doing, growing, and achieving nonstop. For me, slowing down is much more difficult than constantly moving.

That’s why passive prayer is such a discipline for me. It requires me to sit and wait.

When people ask me what meditation app I use, I tell them that I don’t use anything. And it’s true!

Because I start my morning routine before anyone else is awake, it’s not hard for me to find silence. And when it’s time for me to find that meditation zone, I take a deep breath in, hold, a deep breath out, hold, and I listen.

That’s it. I just listen. It’s not time for me to talk.

If I find my mind is drifting, I just repeat to myself, “be still and know. Be still and know,” and my mind readjusts.

And it’s not like I hear a voice speaking to me out of the silence, but I do often leave with a sense of knowing, and more often, with the peace that everything that had been bothering me going into the session just didn’t matter so much anymore. It didn’t have to derail my day.

For someone who finds it hard to slow down, and stop trying earn and achieve, passive prayer is a beautiful reminder that everything we have is a gift, and we can’t be late for the life we’re meant for.

Want to see the first four parts of my How to Heal series? Check them out here.