Episode Details

In this meditation, I return with you to the two complementary modes of practice: discursive and passive meditation, and how they work together over time.

I reflect on why both forms are necessary, and how practices such as the rosary can help us understand this movement between intention and rest. Discursive prayer gives shape and direction, while passive meditation allows us to receive, to settle, and to be held.

We come gently into stillness, using the body as a place of awareness, beginning with the hands and the simple experience of openness. As intention is named and held lightly, a word or versiculum may be added, allowing the practice to rest again in love and presence.

This daily guided meditation offers a moment of calm, whether you are pausing during the day or winding down before sleep, supporting stillness, openness and quiet awareness.

Chapters

00:00 – Introduction

00:10 – Discursive and passive meditation

00:40 – Why both forms are needed

00:50 – The rosary as meditative prayer

02:10 – A direction for this practice

02:40 – The bell

03:00 – Coming to stillness

03:50 – Awareness of the palms

05:30 – Experiencing openness in the hands

06:40 – Releasing the hands

07:10 – Sensation and tingling

07:20 – The intention to feel

07:50 – An intention of openness

08:10 – Naming the divine

09:20 – Introducing the versiculum

10:30 – Resting in love

11:40 – Closing bell

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