Coaching practices for Ignatian Discernment
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- 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
- The same intrusive thoughts and moods keep ambushing me through the day and I get swept off by them before I even notice
- Whenever I review my own day I quietly spin everything to make myself look better, and I know it
- When I look back on my day it’s just a checklist of what I did, and it tells me nothing
- Some parts of my day leave me feeling alive and like myself and others leave me weirdly drained and small, and I usually just push past both
Practices that may help
- The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
The Ignatian Examen is a five-step daily prayer and reflection practice developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola: give thanks, ask for clarity, review the day, face what fell short, and resolve what comes next. As a structured reflection method it is centuries-old and widely practiced; its benefits are supported by the broader research on gratitude, emotional review, and implementation intentions, not by trials of the Examen itself. - 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 - Learning from the Desert Fathers and Mothers
Study and apply the radical simplicity, discernment, and watchfulness of the desert tradition.
Contemplative Prayer: The Inner Journey - The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials. - Ask for clarity and honest perception
Before reviewing, pause to ask for the capacity to see honestly rather than defensively.
The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review - Review the day following your feelings
Walk back through the day in sequence, tracking the emotional quality of each moment.
The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review - Notice the feelings (consolation and desolation)
Pay attention to where you felt energized and connected versus drained and pulled away.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day - Train your faculty of assent
Practice pausing between an impression (a thought, feeling, or perception) and your assent to it.
The Inner Citadel - Contemplatio: resting in wordless presence
Release words and rest in simple, open presence — the fruit and culmination of the practice.
Lectio Divina: Sacred Reading - Working with attachments in the night of the senses
Use the night of the senses to examine what you have been clinging to for identity and security.
The Dark Night of the Soul: John of the Cross
Related concerns
- Ignatian Feelings Review
Walk back through the day in sequence, tracking the emotional quality of each moment.
Review the day following your feelings
- The Ignatian Examen Five Movements Of Daily Review After A Loss
The Ignatian Examen is a five-step daily prayer and reflection practice developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola: give thanks, ask for clarity, review the day, face what fell short, and resolve what comes next. As a structured reflection method it is centuries-old and widely practiced; its benefits are supported by the broader research on gratitude, emotional review, and implementation intentions, not by trials of the Examen itself.
- Ignatian Examen Five Steps
The Ignatian Examen is a five-step daily prayer and reflection practice developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola: give thanks, ask for clarity, review the day, face what fell short, and resolve what comes next. As a structured reflection method it is centuries-old and widely practiced; its benefits are supported by the broader research on gratitude, emotional review, and implementation intentions, not by trials of the Examen itself.
- Short Ignatian Review
The Ignatian Examen is a five-step daily prayer and reflection practice developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola: give thanks, ask for clarity, review the day, face what fell short, and resolve what comes next. As a structured reflection method it is centuries-old and widely practiced; its benefits are supported by the broader research on gratitude, emotional review, and implementation intentions, not by trials of the Examen itself.
- Spiritual Attachments Examination
Use the night of the senses to examine what you have been clinging to for identity and security.
Working with attachments in the night of the senses
- The Ignatian Examen Five Movements Of Daily Review Before Bed
The Ignatian Examen is a five-step daily prayer and reflection practice developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola: give thanks, ask for clarity, review the day, face what fell short, and resolve what comes next. As a structured reflection method it is centuries-old and widely practiced; its benefits are supported by the broader research on gratitude, emotional review, and implementation intentions, not by trials of the Examen itself.
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