Presented by:

Herb Kaighan

Centering Prayer

Practice

Intentional Consciousness

Dynamic Process

Action

Experience Information

“The consciousness that created the

problem cannot be the consciousness that

solves the problem.”

SET ASIDE PRAYER

God, please set aside everything that I think I know about myself, my brokenness, my spiritual path and You, for an open mind and a new experience with myself, my brokenness, my spiritual path and especially You.

Reflections

Where is my life not working?

How effective are my efforts?

Do I really want my life to change?

What change(s) would I like?

What is the invitation?

Today’s Journey

Reality?Prayer?

Meditation?Contemplation?

Centering Prayer?Invitation?

“Be still and know that I am God.”

Centering Prayer

Is God Necessary?

Reality – A Perspective

Who is God?

An infinite immaterial being• Fully present• All knowing• Unconditional love

An uncreated Creative Reality

Reality – A Perspective

Who am I?

A finite material being• Body – to exist• Mind – to know• Will – to decide

A finite created spirit

Human Beings – A Model

Mind

SelfTranscendence

Compassion

Self RealizationConsciousness

Self ActualizationConscience

SocialAcceptance, Affection, Connectivity

PhysicalAir, Water, Food, Sleep

Human Development –

Emotional/PsychologicalSelf Awareness/Esteem, Respect

Organic Process

BIOLOGYGENETICS

FAMILYCULTURE

EMOTIONSEXPERIENCES

PSYCHOLOGYEDUCATION

SPIRITUALMEANING

Core of Goodness

BIOLOGYGENETICS

FAMILYCULTURE

EMOTIONSEXPERIENCES

PSYCHOLOGYEDUCATION

SPIRITUALMEANING

Ego Deflation at Depth “My Story”

Flower Seed

Cat Kitten

DivineImage & Likeness

Human Baby

Levels of Consciousness

DivinePresence

Reality – a Model

Transcendent

Spirit Deep Inside

Spirit Everywhere

Immanent

Prayer

To form a relationship

What is it?Intimate conversation

Why do we do it?

What do you believe about God?Your decision!

OutcomeConscious contact

Meditation

Biology – physical health

What is it?Thinking

Why do we do it?Listening

Psychology – emotional health

Theology – spiritual health

Meditation

Intuition

“wee small voice”

Will: Intention Inspiration

InstinctBody: Read

Mind: Attention

How to do it?

Guidance

Listen

Think

Meditation

Inventory obstacles:Distractions?

Self Others

Improved consciousnessOutcome

Comm-union

Centering Prayer

A method

Improve relationship with Reality

Mind Attention AcknowledgeWill Intention Consent

Centering Prayer

Any awareness other than the Presence

Use sacred word

Use breath

Rest in Love

Centering Prayer

Resist

Retain

React

Return

no thought

no thought

emotionally to no thought

ever-so-gently to the sacred word

Centering Prayer

Awareness of PresenceHealing of brokenness

Self esteem authenticHarmony within self

Listen to othersCompassion for others

Unity with Reality

Invitation Spiritual Awakening

Think Feel Behave

Done to me NOT by me

Change

But not without me!

I am the oneI am waiting for!

Nobody’s Coming!

“Be still and know that I am.”

Intentional Consciousness

20 minutes am pmShow up – don’t leave early

A method – not a technique

An action based on faith – not knowledge

An awareness – not a feeling

Responsible for effort – NOT the results

Consciousness Practice

NOT resultI am responsible for effort

A journey,

BECOMING A LANTERN

A process, NOT a taskAn experience, NOT an event

SELF-ACTUALIZATIONSELF-REALIZATION

NOT a destination

Compassion Practice

NOT feelingsGuided by organic principles of reality,

Intention to actually help,

TRANSMITTING THE LIGHT

SELF-TRANSCENDENCE

NOT manipulate

Motivated by unconditional love,NOT self-interest

I am the oneI am waiting for!

LIGHTING THE PATH

BECOMING A LANTERN

TRANSFORMATION (St Francis)

Lord, make me a channel of your peace; That where there is hatred, I may bring love; That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness; That where there is discord, I may bring harmony; That where there is error, I may bring truth; That where there is doubt, I may bring faith; That where there is despair; I may bring hope; That where there are shadows, I may bring light; That where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted; To understand, than to be understood; To love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds; It is by forgiving that one is forgiven;It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life. – Amen

Herb Kaighan(310) 377-3194www.herbk.com

PO Box 4268Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274