We are just ahead of the holiday season. It brings so much joy and so much anticipation. It also brings a full calendar, additional tasks on your to do list, special outfits and shoes, and a lot of stress. So before it gets too busy, take some time to learn about mindfulness and stress reduction through connection with God. Dr. Heather Alexander will be here November 19 to lead her (very popular) Mindfulness Retreat!
After exploring the retreat, we encourage you to find a quiet moment and read the prayer below…
A Mindfulness Prayer for Stress Relief and More LIFE in Your Life
To the life energy that courses through every cell and soul,
May I feel your vital and giving nature as my own. May I feel myself as an expression and an extension of your infinite, easy flow.
Remind me about the stillness that’s underneath everything I do.
In all my rushing and doing, when I’m only half alive, give me another chance to savor and delight. Show me how to flow from one moment to the next. Show me how to use my heart as a guide again.
Lighten me like a breeze, right in the middle of everything.
Help me live the only way the universe intends: one day at a time.
Remind me that wherever I am, there I am entirely. That when my heart is open, I can hear the wisdom of my soul. I can hear the faintest whispers of the cosmos. I can sense the intelligence that springs from quiet trees. I can see beauty where others see nothing at all.
Prove to me that I am guided and connected, supported and protected, fluid and free.
Remind me to breathe.
When I’m only half living, show me again the beauty in simple things.
Tell me about how my heart beats in time with the entire universe and all of its creations. How what I focus on flowers, and I can’t be anywhere I’m not meant to be.
Reveal to me my own power to love who I am and honor where I’ve been, and still accomplish what needs to be done. It’s the same power that dissolves force into feeling. It’s the power of a long exhale that sparks freedom and healing.
Let me feel this season with every cell of my being. Let my actions spring from a deep-seated peace. Let me be thoroughly, wondrously, entirely here.
Me and this moment: let this be enough.
And so I am. And so it is.
(prayer written by Jennifer Healey and found at HealingBrave.com)