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.
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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