Coaching practices for Ignatian Feelings Review
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When I look back on my day it’s just a checklist of what I did, and it tells me nothing
- Whenever I review my own day I quietly spin everything to make myself look better, and I know it
- When I sit down at night to look back on my day with God, I tend to jump straight to everything I did wrong
- 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
- Every time I review how I acted today I catch myself building a defense
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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. - 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 - Become aware of God’s presence and give thanks
Open the review by pausing, settling, and naming specific gifts from the day.
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 - Seneca’s evening court — judge the day as an honest prosecutor
Review the day as a fair judge would: what was the evidence, what was the verdict, what is the sentence?
The Pythagorean Evening Review - 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 - Face shortfalls with honest sorrow, not shame
Name where you fell short today without either minimizing it or spiraling into self-punishment.
The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review - 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. - See external events from the citadel view
From the inner citadel, events are data for judgment — not commands that must dictate your state.
The Inner Citadel
Related concerns
- 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 Discernment
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.
- Examen Consolation Desolation
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.
- Examen Gratitude Step
Open the review by pausing, settling, and naming specific gifts from the day.
Become aware of God’s presence and give thanks
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