Carrie: I like any time we can combine our physical, spiritual, and emotional health into a practice. The words of the prayer aren’t really as important as the posture of your heart while you say them and breathe. To access your Streaming Video after purchasing, you can view instantly on your browser on StudyGateway. My toolbox is God, number one, prayer, medication, seeing that as another tool, a good gift that God has given me. One of the very first things my daughter’s psychiatrist and her therapist worked with her on, and incidentally, the first thing her psychiatrist told her was breathing is the bridge between the brain and the body.

And I thought it would be cool to give people a little taste of one of those you put in there and maybe lead us through life, like one of those exercises. But I wonder if in those moments, like when we slow down, and we breathe, and we pray if, that’s a way for us to just tap into the Holy Spirit that’s already inside of us, and we forget.I had never realized that before now, different breathing exercises don’t necessarily work for everyone; for my daughter in particular, when she focuses on her breathing, it makes her more anxious and conspires with her into panic. Will you please share the story of how you discovered the practice of breath prayer and also just what it is? But that time is worth it, because it brings us to the time of the present/presence and the time beyond time known as kairos where heaven is near and Sacred Encounter is around every corner. And then all of a sudden, it brings up like, okay, well, these are some things that are on my mind that I’m thinking about that I want to talk to God about more in-depth or more fully. As historian Peter Hennessy went on to say, a global crisis of this magnitude hasn’t been faced since World War II and will have lasting effects on our societies.

I hope that together we can continue to create safe spaces for people to explore faith and theology.Scripture ties the words “I have all that I need” directly to the fact that the Lord is our shepherd. Pray as slowly or as quickly as you need to, and don’t be afraid to repeat the same prayer over and over. Using this technique for prayer seems so quick but the interesting thing is that it actually adds up throughout my day and deepens my relationship with God. During that time I remembered a breath prayer I’d written previously based on some words from the apostle Paul.

Sometimes, the sympathetic nervous system will get riled up over something that isn’t a threat to us, and we’ll get anxious and worried. I like what you said about masking your anxiety as other things, such as perfectionism, as the person who’s the high achiever, the go-getter. Give it a try: print these pages, grab some crayons or colored pencils, hit play on the “b-r-e-a-t-h-e” playlist below, and breathe deep as you color in the pages. We were homeless for a while, staying with my aunt in her 3 bedroom apartment with her, her 3 teenage boys, her son's girlfriend, and their newborn baby and of course the dog.And I think you could even use this at the beginning or end of a longer prayer time where you’re giving your burdens to the Lord. How it’s laid out is on one page, you have a very short devotional sharing about the scripture that inspires that breath prayer. And that’s when I think breath prayer became significant to me because at that moment, as I focused on where I mean, I was in this hospital room. I feel like those verses have flipped for me from verses of condemnation to verses of compassion where God is saying, “I’m your heavenly Father. Breath prayers should encourage active thinking on the words of the prayer, with the purpose of fully embracing the meaning of the words.