These monks dreamed of taking the church’s rich, centuries-old tradition of contemplative prayer and distilling it into a simple, easily learned prayer that ordinary people could practice. They ...

&bull: Meditation and prayer shift brain activity from the stress-prone right frontal cortex to the calmer left cortex. • Slowing the breathing rate to 6 breaths per minute synchronizes breathing with ...

There’s an old saying that prayer is talking to God while meditation is listening to God. While it’s an oversimplification, the statement nevertheless conveys a kernel of truth. Meditation and ...

St. Paul encourages us to “not be anxious about anything.” But how to attain such peace in our world so filled with peril and strife, as it surely was in Paul’s day, and in every chapter of history?

NEWBURYPORT — Ted Jones, a teacher of insight meditation and of centering prayer will be on the next “Lifting Your Spirit” show on Wednesday on Newburyport’s Channel 8 at 11:30 a.m. and on YouTube and ...

As I drove down the New York State Thruway, headed toward what promised to be an inspiring event on the legacy of Trappist Fr. Thomas Keating and the Centering Prayer movement, I was anything but ...