Five Tips to Meditate

1. Find a quiet place free from distraction
2. Sit with your limbs uncrossed and with a straight back, hands in your lap
3. Simply breathe at regular speed but breathe deeply and relax
4. Close your eyes and think of a beautiful scene from the natural world
5. Take a simple phrase and repeat it continuously in time with your breathing

Some people find listening to chant helps them prepare for meditation. Click here for a CD of chant by the monks of Worth.

Five Meditation Phrases

You may it helpful to use one of the following, traditional prayers

• Come and illumine my darkness
• Be still and know that I am God
• God be in my head and in my understanding
• Come Holy Spirit and inflame my heart
• Come Lord Jesus

Famous Short Prayers

• Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner
  (The Jesus Prayer)
• Oh God, if there is a God, fill my soul, if I have a soul (Blaise Pascal in 1650)
• Fire. God of Abraham, not of philosophers. Certainty, heartfelt joy, peace.
  (Blaise Pascal in 1654, text found sewn inside his clothing after his death)