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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if you'd like to meditate daily? It is supposedly very relaxing and centering. [/quote]

OP. I’ve gone through phases of regular breath work meditation (Ten Percent Happier type stuff, mostly). I have found it incredibly helpful, mostly to notice and by extension detach from my own thoughts. It made me much less reactive, and I felt more present/relaxed in my own life.( I am out of the habit right now, and typing this I realize I should get back into it.)

But meditation never made me feel connected to something bigger. It wax always kind of all about me — my breath, my thoughts, my observing, my returning.  That sense of “oneness” that people sometimes describe… I just never felt it. I’d like to. I’d like to feel like there’s something more, and that there’s some way of tapping into it.

I wondered if prayer was a way in, or if the fact that I don’t really “believe” (in what? In the bearded guy in white robes, I guess) means by definition it wouldn’t be prayer. Maybe I just have to try and keep at it and see for myself. [/quote]

When I don't know what to pray, I look up collects (a funny word for a written prayer) of the ancient church. I find it helps to get some words that have been considered valuable enough to have lasted centuries or even millenia. Maybe this would help you?[/quote]

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