Coaching practices for 20 Minutes Twice Daily Prayer
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My silent prayer keeps drifting
- I already pray five times a day, but the long hours in between feel spiritually empty
- I keep starting this nightly prayer practice and then dropping it the second life gets busy, because I’ve made it this long involved thing
- I only do this kind of slow, prayerful reading on retreat days or quiet weekends and then drop it the moment normal life resumes
- My daily twenty minutes keeps me ticking over but I’ve plateaued
Practices that may help
- Sitting for twenty minutes, twice daily
Commit to 20 minutes, twice a day — the practice period Keating recommends for transformation to occur.
Centering Prayer: The Method of Thomas Keating - Integrating dhikr with the five daily prayers
Use dhikr to extend the orientation of salat throughout the day, not just in formal practice periods.
Sufi Dhikr: The Practice of Remembrance - Practice the Examen daily and briefly
Do a short Examen most days rather than a long one occasionally.
The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review - Making lectio divina a brief, daily practice
Practice a short lectio daily rather than a long lectio occasionally.
Lectio Divina: Sacred Reading - Group and retreats — the Zen sesshin context
Understand the role of structured retreat periods in deepening breath counting beyond what daily practice alone achieves.
Breath Counting Meditation - The 20-minutes-twice-a-day routine
Practice roughly 20 minutes in the morning and again in the late afternoon, every day.
Transcendental Meditation (TM) - Keep it brief and daily
Do a short Examen most days rather than a long one occasionally.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day - Combining lectio divina with centering prayer
Use a brief lectio as preparation that deepens the consent you bring to centering prayer.
Centering Prayer: The Method of Thomas Keating - Choosing and using a sacred word
Select one simple word as your symbol of consent to God’s presence and action within.
Centering Prayer: The Method of Thomas Keating - Entering and sitting in silence
Create interior and exterior silence — the necessary soil for contemplative prayer to grow.
Contemplative Prayer: The Inner Journey
Related concerns
- Mixed Life Prayer
Let interior transformation express outward as deeper care for others, not withdrawal from them.
Contemplation opening to universal compassion
- Quiet Time Daily
Commit to 20 minutes, twice a day — the practice period Keating recommends for transformation to occur.
Sitting for twenty minutes, twice daily
- Silent Prayer Practice
Commit to 20 minutes, twice a day — the practice period Keating recommends for transformation to occur.
- When Centering Prayer Lectio And Centering
Use a brief lectio as preparation that deepens the consent you bring to centering prayer.
Combining lectio divina with centering prayer
- When Sufi Dhikr Dhikr And Daily Prayer
Use dhikr to extend the orientation of salat throughout the day, not just in formal practice periods.
Integrating dhikr with the five daily prayers
- Centering Prayer Duration
Centering Prayer is a contemporary Christian contemplative practice developed by Thomas Keating, William Meninger, and Basil Pennington in the 1970s, drawing on The Cloud of Unknowing and the Desert Father tradition. The method is simple: sit in silence for 20 minutes, use a sacred word as a gentle intention to consent to God’s presence, and release all thoughts as they arise. It is a devotional practice; some components parallel studied meditation mechanisms, but centering prayer as a whole has not been evaluated in controlled trials.
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