Breath as Prayer: Calm Your Anxiety, Focus Your Mind, and Renew Your Soul

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A little phrase that we’ve learned to remember how to breathe is to smell the flowers and blow out the candles so you always inhale through your nose and then exhale through your mouth slowly and fully.

It’s one of the simplest ways to pray when words come slowly, or you need to borrow the words of another. Will you please share the story of how you discovered the practice of breath prayer and also just what it is?When we first learned how to do this with my daughter, the therapist laid her on the floor, put a little rock or something on her belly and said, “When you breathe, you’re going to watch that raise up and down, then you know you’re breathing deep.

Breath as Prayer invites you to the crossroads of Christian contemplative practice, Scripture, psychology, and science to deepen your faith, bring peace to your body, and discover a new reliance on Christ. Feel free to recite scripture, mix and match, highlight characteristics of God, make requests or confessions, or praise God.The words I based the prayer on are powerful in moments of stress, because it’s hard to fight fear and have strength to help others through willpower alone.

While various sciences measure the health markers related to breathing, ancient Christian Breath Prayer involves belief in God, in whose name Jesus healed. Of course, breath prayers are not the only kind of prayers we pray, but they can be the doorway to an even deeper more robust prayer life as you intentionally take a few minutes to be still and turn your soul toward Christ and the truths in His Word. Now that we’ve practiced Welcoming Prayer, Centering Prayer, and Lectio Divina, let’s pause in the middle and take a breath, shall we? For all eBook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing FaithGateway username and password. He originally lost a lot of weight but he's gained a lot back and while he has days that are really hard and he's really sick, he is still here fighting.

It doesn’t take long, but it can significantly impact how we think and process our anxiety because we’re rewiring our brains.