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The Contemplative Life

Christina Roberts, Chris Roberts, and Kristina Kaiser

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Discover the gifts of deep listening and spiritual companioning. This podcast is dedicated to helping people become familiar with the wide variety of contemplative practices that have been developed over hundreds of years and are continuing to develop even to this day. We also hope to create a space for people to learn more about spiritual direction, also known as spiritual companioning. Our interest is in allowing "the contemplative" to become a part of our regular life experiences, and so ...
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Bodypoetica: The Contemplative Creative

Bodypoetica | Eileen Cubbage

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Bodypoetica is a transformative podcast at the nexus of art, embodiment, and self-discovery, emphasizing the raw potential of the body as a source of creative power and contemplative wisdom. Specializing in harnessing deep emotions to fuel fearless art making, the podcast offers perspective on how perceiving the body from within unlocks imaginal spaces and cultivates a sanctuary for creative reverie and insight. Encouraging integrative self-awareness and bold creative exploration, Bodypoetic ...
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Inspired by Lectio Divina and the Collatio, this podcast offers the listener sessions of guided, meditative, listening prayer around different passages of scripture. Each episode will take you in to a deep place of listening in the Lord's presence where you will hear a gospel story read very slowly so that you can savour each word, imagine the scene vividly and perhaps even discern what the Holy Spirit is speaking into your own life through the text. This prayer experience is ideal if you wo ...
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Life moves quickly. Contemplative Tuesday Podcast invites you to slow down, take a deep breath, contemplate the Word of God, and prayerfully reflect. Together, we’ll ask God to search us, guide us, and reveal Himself to us. The profound truth in mystery is that as we gaze upon Him, we will be made like Him. Let’s find ourselves in the God who makes all things new.
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Christian music podcast from Color located in Barbados. Episodes include the sung Rosary, prayerful reflections from our monthly Contemplative Worship session, traditional Roman Catholic hymns, contemporary Christian music and original music recorded by Color.
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This spirituality and self-help podcast features interviews, stories, and commentary from top writers and authors. Topics include Mysticism, Contemplative Spirituality, Nondual Awakening, Meditation, Christianit Mysticism, Psychology, Buddhism, Integral Theory, Advaita Vedanta, and more. Contemplative Light provides education and resources in a global effort towards inner transformation through contemplative prayer and meditation. Find us on Facebook where we have a very active community. WE ...
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Contemplative Motherhood Podcast

Erin Thomas & Chelsea Whipple

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A Sacred Space for talking about Contemplative Practices, Spirituality + Messy Motherhood. We seek the Divine Presence amidst the Beautiful Chaos of Motherhood and share our failures, our triumphs, and our missteps. Your hosts on this journey are Erin Thomas and Chelsea Whipple. To get in touch with Erin and Chelsea email them at contemplativemotherhoodpodcast@gmail.com Check out our main website: contemplativemotherhood.org
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The Contemplative Edge

Rashmir Balasubramaniam

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Where do you go to slow down, listen to, reflect on and discuss the deeper questions of life? Each season will consist of short reflective episodes on the season theme so you can listen and let yourself be drawn into deeper inquiry, presence and stillness. You'll come away with a deeper connection to your own wisdom and knowing, greater comfort with being in a space of not knowing, more inspired and open to new ideas and different ways of seeing the world and being in the world, and more rea ...
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A 19-minute audio guided meditation in John’s Gospel, John 19:13-42, using Lectio Divina. I am struck by two key invitations as we meditate on the suffering of Jesus in Holy Week. The first invitation is to see how fully and completely Jesus offered himself in love. And the second invitation is to attend to pain, to difficult emotions and circumsta…
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Christianity's most potent and lasting advice on aging well comes from one of its most remarkable contemplatives: Hildegard of Bingen from the 12th century. She was an explosion of creativity: she wrote the first known opera (by hundreds of years). She was an architect, a physician, a poet, a painter, a composer, a theologian and a leader of women.…
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Stress is a part of life and can happen in both big and small ways. On today’s podcast, we consider how the contemplative life can help us recognize what’s happening so that we can respond in more balanced ways more and more often. Do you find yourself sometimes feeling flush with emotions? Or, on the opposite side of that, do you sometimes try to …
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Welcome to this empowering episode of Contemplative Living with David Bennett. In this heartening discussion, we delve into the profound concept of tolerance, a crucial virtue that David discovered during his near-death experience. This episode emphasizes the importance of tolerance in our lives today, to maintain equilibrium in the midst of challe…
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IN THIS EPISODE: In my trailer episode, I Dreamt My Body Was a Poem, I unravel the depths of creative inquiry beyond the canvas. The Essence and Inquiry of Creativity: Explore the profound questions surrounding where creativity resides and its role in enriching our lives. The Body as a Vessel: Discover how the body serves as the primary medium for …
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A 17-minute audio guided meditation in John’s Gospel, John 19:1-9, using Lectio Divina. In this Holy Week meditation on John’s Gospel, I invite you to join me in taking a ‘long, loving look’ at Jesus as he endures these grim moments of his arrest, ‘trial’, and conviction to crucifixion. Notice the way he remains present and attentive even while cir…
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On this week’s podcast, we’re talking about what it takes to be present to those things that are taking up mental real estate in our heads, buzzing in the background, ticker taping through our heads, and the like. Do you sometimes find yourself blowing up when you normally would have been able to remain calm? Having trouble sleeping? Feeling the ne…
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A 22-minute audio guided meditation on John’s Gospel, John 18:33-40 using Lectio Divina. James Tissot . Jesus Before Pilate, Second Interview (Jésus devant Pilate. Deuxième entretien), 1886-1894 In this meditation on John’s Gospel, I invite you to join me in taking a ‘long, loving look’ at a few verses of text, beholding the words as living, shimme…
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Welcome to another episode of "Contemplative Living." In today's session, David Bennett shares profound insights about acceptance and its profound impact on our lives. He maintains that acceptance is the doorway to freedom and the key to experiencing life as a constant journey towards self-improvement and personal growth. David unfolds his thoughts…
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Do you ever find yourself feeling frustrated or confused about which way to go next? In this episode, we talk about the helpfulness of being able to take a pause as a way of getting our bearings again, whether those pauses are related to something in particular, a season of life, or the need for discernment within a larger group. Wondering if you h…
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A 22-minute meditation with John 18:12-27, using breath work and Lectio Divina. A meditation for Lent as Jesus is arrested and interviewed by Annas. Contemplative at Home offers guided meditative prayer – space to slow down and listen to the truth that is being born out of God’s love for you today – drawing on Ignatian spirituality and at times, Le…
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Welcome to another insightful episode of Contemplative Living with David Bennett, your go-to podcast for spiritual reflections and meditations to help pave your way towards inner peace. In this engaging episode, David, while enjoying the vibrant atmosphere of the Dominican, invites you on a thought-provoking journey to find the ultimate answer to t…
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Maybe the most-influential Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart, had profound thoughts about how our spiritual practice is meant to--even must!--empower our creativity. Dave Schmelzer dives into Eckhart's deep, generative waters here. Mentioned on this podcast: Meister Eckhart: A Mystic-Warrior for Our Times, by Matthew Fox…
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Join us as Dr. Jeanette Banashak shares with us about a new certification program being offered in Outdoor Companioning that has come about as a result of her own lifelong desire to connect with the more-than-human world. Are you a spiritual guide or working in some form of service profession? Outdoor Companioning teaches us how to integrate the na…
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A 16-minute guided audio meditation with John 8:31-36, using breath work and Lectio Divina. “We have never been slaves to anyone. What do you mean by saying ‘You will be made free’?” John 8:33 Jesus invites his followers into an interior freedom. We could devote our entire lives to the exploration of this invitation. You might find it useful to ref…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay and is rapidly changing our world. For some, a tool like this can bring about equity in their lives. But in our individualistic society, where we are applauded for the ways in which we can stand out, will everyone be willing to applaud this equity? At the same time, many have taken to warning us about th…
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A 22-minute audio guided meditation in John’s Gospel, John 8:12-20, using Lectio Divina. My invitation to you, always, is to engage with scripture through your creative, non-rational self. Rational engagement with scripture is equally important – we usually call it bible study – and I hope there is a dose of it in your rhythms. But my invitation is…
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Join us this week on the Contemplative Living Podcast as we explore the concept of "A Stable Foundation." Discover ways to cultivate inner strength and compassion within yourself. Have faith in your ability to understand and know yourself honestly. Know that a solid foundation of peace can withstand life's challenges. With a stable foundation, we c…
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Do you ever feel lonely, even if you’re in a room with other people? Do you sometimes feel like you’re missing that sense of meaningful connection in your life? If so, you’re not alone. For a variety of reasons, common social interactions have shifted over the years, leaving us with an epidemic of loneliness. Join us as we talk about how the contem…
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A 23-minute audio meditation with John 8:1-11, using Imaginative Contemplation. In this meditation on John’s Gospel, I invite you to join me in taking a ‘long, loving look’ at a few verses of text, beholding the words as living, shimmering, life-giving containers which hold endless layers of wisdom, mystery, beauty and truth. Just for these few min…
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On this week's episode of the Contemplative Living Podcast, we explore the idea of "New Beginnings." Recognizing the ebb and flow of circumstances can be a powerful tool in challenging moments. By freeing ourselves from fixed perspectives, we open the door for solutions to emerge. Beginning Anew means shifting our mindset and heart, shedding ignora…
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Kieran Setiya--a philosopher at MIT who wrote the terrific book Midlife: A Philosophical Guide that Dave Schmelzer talked about on the last episode--joins Dave for a lively conversation about how philosophy can help with our deepest questions and about how it interacts with the spirituality we talk about here. Mentioned on this podcast: Midlife: A …
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How many times have we heard someone say, “Let me just play devil’s advocate here for a moment.” For many of us, it’s a total mind shift to ask a question in the opposite spirit. What if instead of asking what could go wrong we spent even a little bit of time asking what could go right? Who would be served? What possibilities might open up? What fr…
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A 16-minute meditation with John 7:37-39, using Lectio Divina and Imaginative Contemplation. In chapers 7 and 8 of the book of John, politics are whirling and public opinion around Jesus is intensifying. In these choppy political seas – with which we are all familiar in our own way – Jesus speaks these words: “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, …
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We are encouraged to create significant changes through small shifts in thought and behavior. Embracing a compassionate, gentle spiritual perspective can transform our internal world and societal interactions. This process involves deliberate thought, self-care, and kind gesturesΑπό τον David Bennett
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After several weeks of hearing from others about how they think about self-care given their particular experiences of life, we turn our attention today to thinking about the community. Who do we turn to when we need help? And fo that matter, do we believe that we can turn to others? Or do we tend to live with the feeling that we have to do it all a…
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A 19 minute audio meditation with John 7, verses 14-18 and 25-31, using Lectio Divina and breath work. In John 7, the public opinion of the Rabbi Jesus is becoming fraught, with many following, many criticising and others wanting him out of the way. In todays text Jesus has made his way to Jerusalem for the festival of booths, but has come quietly,…
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This week on the Contemplative Living Podcast, we delve into the concept of "Being Natural" in our spiritual practices. Instead of constantly chasing every thought that arises, try to let go and be more spontaneous. Allow yourself to align with your natural tendencies and flow.Από τον David Bennett
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Philosophers and theologians offer different answers to how we should feel about the losses we confront in midlife. Kieran Setiya, a philosopher teaching at MIT, wrote a terrific recent book on midlife crisis. Dave Schmelzer highlights some of Setiya's best stuff, including Setiya's takes on missed opportunities, why we can simultaneously regret an…
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Join us as Ryan Bauers, Consultant and Organization Development Specialist, shares with us about why self-care is so important in the business environment and how it positively impacts those businesses. Hear about his own journey that led him to finding self-care so important: working to the point of total exhaustion, receiving from mentors who off…
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A guided audio meditation with John 6:52-60, 66-69, using Lectio Divina. “Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my bl…
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For those who have a tendency towards helping others, feelings of guilt and shame can often lead to overworking. And what’s more, depending on our family or cultural contexts, we may not even feel permission to do what we need to do in order to keep ourselves feeling whole and healthy. Join us as Rev. Dr. Beth Brown shares with us about what helps …
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A meditation with John 6:30-35, 38-39, using breath work and Lectio Divina. This passage is so beautiful. I know that bread has taken many different forms in different times and places, but I can’t help but see a … Continue reading "Bread of Life: Lectio Divina" The post Bread of Life: Lectio Divina appeared first on .…
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This episode of the Contemplative Living Podcast offers tips on engaging deeply with spiritual material, emphasizing resonance with personal truths, and encouraging prolonged meditation on teachings for a deeper understanding. The process of contemplation shapes our personal growth, leading to self-discovery and an invitation to embrace simplicity …
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As we continue our series on self-care, Sarah Kiser joins us to share her experience of being a healthcare professional at a time when 87% of people in the field are reporting experiences of burnout. For many of us, our career experience changes as we age. Our lives become fuller, our responsibilities grow, and the margins of life for self-care get…
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A meditation with John 6: 24-29, using Lectio Divina. In this text, the crowd realises that Jesus has gone to the other side of the lake, and decide to follow. It got me thinking about “Elvis has left … Continue reading "Looking for Jesus: A Meditation" The post Looking for Jesus: A Meditation appeared first on .…
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This week on the Contemplative Living Podcast, we explore the concept of "Doing it your way." We observe situations through our unique perspective and engage with life's teachings. Through deep reflection, we understand the significance of each present moment as we flow with it. Let's dare to dream big and make our aspirations a reality. Through co…
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Today we are joined by Mary Bouras who is sharing with us about what it has been like to be married to someone in the military. Mary comes to us with over 2 decades of experience, including nearly a dozen moves, motherhood, and a career. Join us as she shares candidly with us about what has created balance and stability in a life that can easily fe…
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When Dave Schmelzer first started exploring contemplative spirituality, he had a hard time finding teachers who would get pragmatic in the "just do this, and then do this, and then do this, and here's what you should discover" sense. Mo Gawdat has written a bestselling guide along those lines called Solve for Happy. Dave walks us through Gawdat's p…
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