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First Steps in Prayer

Introduction
God
Prayer
Just do it
Resistance

I offer spiritual direction, training, and supervision. I am also a writer. I am based in Upper Teesdale, Co. Durham and (occasionally) West London.

Through kindly attention to the sensations of this body you can connect into a process of ever-deepening immersion into the reality of God at the heart of life.

I write here primarily about:

God, and how to foster your relationship with God;
prayer, and how to pray; and
how attending to this body is prayer and a way to be present in the Presence.

Popular Posts

Audio Prayer for sleep 5.9k views | posted on 05/04/2020
To you 3.3k views | posted on 11/04/2016
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What is the sensation of prayer? 10 steps to knowing God 2.3k views | posted on 08/09/2014
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How to experience God 845 views | posted on 12/06/2016
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Lost and found 796 views | posted on 15/08/2021
Spiritual direction at the end of the world (1) 772 views | posted on 10/01/2021
Thomas Merton’s life without care 740 views | posted on 23/05/2019
Only basic goodness gives life to technique 706 views | posted on 29/10/2021
Coterminous 704 views | posted on 05/05/2021
Lass auch Dir die Brust bewegen, Liebchen, höre mich! 671 views | posted on 07/03/2021
Coming Out 669 views | posted on 20/08/2024
Retreat Day: “What do You want me to do?” 643 views | posted on 03/08/2021
Spiritual direction at the end of the world (4) 639 views | posted on 13/01/2021
Retreat days for Advent 638 views | posted on 05/11/2021
Starting at the bottom 637 views | posted on 11/09/2013
For 618 views | posted on 30/03/2018
The Discontents of Empire (III) 613 views | posted on 26/02/2017
One needful Lenten discipline 609 views | posted on 10/03/2023
I am Trump 607 views | posted on 03/02/2017
The Miracle of Being Nothing 589 views | posted on 01/07/2013
Holy the Firm 577 views | posted on 11/05/2020
What shall we do? 552 views | posted on 20/10/2019
But when he came to himself 541 views | posted on 30/09/2020
Retreat Day: Lent in lockdown 524 views | posted on 28/01/2021
Embattled, not embittered 517 views | posted on 14/02/2016
Are we there yet? 502 views | posted on 10/02/2019
Where to start? 495 views | posted on 21/02/2012
Retreat Day: Coming Home 491 views | posted on 06/05/2021
Journalling Bible 489 views | posted on 19/02/2017
Michael Maddock, RIP 489 views | posted on 05/04/2010
Prayer of St Manchan 453 views | posted on 16/08/2014
Middle-class spiritual direction 436 views | posted on 02/12/2016
Sit! 429 views | posted on 23/09/2013
Audio prayer featured on Insight Timer 413 views | posted on 14/05/2020
Oasis Day: Journey into Lent 408 views | posted on 01/02/2022
Relax! 408 views | posted on 09/12/2013
God’s fragile ego 406 views | posted on 09/12/2019
Appledore 402 views | posted on 07/05/2018
Starting at the bottom (part 2) 401 views | posted on 15/09/2013
Feeling into this body 398 views | posted on 22/10/2010
Audio Prayer: Revisiting a God moment 390 views | posted on 19/04/2020
Finding depth 383 views | posted on 16/06/2019
The Kingdom of Heaven 376 views | posted on 28/05/2018
The shift 371 views | posted on 01/07/2018
Disclosure II 366 views | posted on 11/09/2024
Spiritual direction at the end of the world (2) 364 views | posted on 11/01/2021
Annunciation 362 views | posted on 15/12/2019
An affirming source (6): Empowered 361 views | posted on 05/05/2019
Spiritual direction at the end of the world (3) 359 views | posted on 12/01/2021
Retreat day: Coming home (last call) 356 views | posted on 07/06/2021
11 Ways of Dealing with Anxiety: 1. Breathe 350 views | posted on 13/05/2013
A training day for Guildford spiritual directors 344 views | posted on 24/11/2020
Repetition 339 views | posted on 17/01/2016
An affirming source (3): Yielding 335 views | posted on 14/03/2019
Salvation 329 views | posted on 17/06/2018
An affirming source (5): Relationship 326 views | posted on 28/04/2019
Vastness, presence and meaning 324 views | posted on 09/03/2015
Training day for spiritual directors 321 views | posted on 10/05/2019
When prayer stops working 319 views | posted on 01/12/2019
Audio Prayer: Review of the day++ 317 views | posted on 29/04/2020
An affirming source (1): an alien will 315 views | posted on 07/03/2019
Negative Capability 314 views | posted on 15/02/2025
The gifts and the giver 313 views | posted on 30/11/2024
To care and not to care 311 views | posted on 20/01/2019
Desert 310 views | posted on 03/02/2019
How sophisticated are you? 306 views | posted on 09/10/2016
What’s eating away at you? 298 views | posted on 30/12/2016
Preemptive strikes upon the Divine 296 views | posted on 03/11/2019
You 274 views | posted on 13/10/2014
An affirming source (2): Emancipation 272 views | posted on 08/03/2019
The naked night 271 views | posted on 18/09/2016
… and joy 268 views | posted on 22/04/2020
Mercy 267 views | posted on 08/06/2017
Camas Lilies 266 views | posted on 19/05/2018
11 Ways of Dealing with Anxiety: 9. Identifying fallacious reasoning 265 views | posted on 10/09/2013
A training day in Gloucester for spiritual directors 261 views | posted on 17/10/2019
Distraction 256 views | posted on 10/11/2019
Clinging to the Invisible God 251 views | posted on 13/04/2017
To live or to recount 251 views | posted on 17/08/2016
Retreat Day: last call 243 views | posted on 15/02/2021
Disclosure I 235 views | posted on 28/08/2024
An affirming source: Inter-mission 231 views | posted on 14/04/2019
The Discontents of Empire (IV) 230 views | posted on 19/03/2017
A few thoughts on how to release regret and learn to live (IV) 229 views | posted on 26/09/2014
The Discontents of Empire (I) 219 views | posted on 05/02/2017

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A beginner’s guide

These links will give you a flavour of, and a way in to, what this body is all about:

Where to start?
Sitting
Starting at the bottom
Feeling into this body
Starting at the bottom (part 2)
Relax!
What is the senation of prayer? 10 steps to knowing God
The miracle of being nothing

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