Touching the Stillness

In part two of our well-received Centering Prayer series, host Rev. Paulette Pipe gives a practical demonstration on how to come up with our prayer word for our Centering Prayer meditation practice-with no puzzle-solving required.

Not to be mistaken for the cloud where we store our digital files, this episode explores how the Prayer of the Cloud became the contemplative Christian meditation we know and practice today as Centering Prayer.

Having just experienced the first-and fabulous-Silent Unity® Retreat at Unity Village, our host gets together with its presenter, Silent Unity Interim Vice President Rev. Patricia Bass, to reminisce on some of the retreat's highlights and share with listeners Rev. Patricia's easy three-step building block method for creating powerful affirmations.

The Hallway experience may be relentless but in this episode we're taking a Time Out to be soothed by the melodies of platinum-selling musician and composer Peter Kater, who shares his process for creating Grammy-nominated compositions; before our host leads us in an etheric meditation that serenades the soul.

Having made it through the hallway, we finally have our hand on the doorknob, ready to cross the threshold into what's next-or are we? In the conclusion of our series on change, our host offers some pointers for our exit strategy based on the book Hell in the Hallway, Light at the Door, by Rev. Ellen Debenport.

Going through hell in the hallway? In this penultimate episode of our series on change, based on the book Hell in the Hallway, Light at the Door, by Rev. Ellen Debenport, we're encouraged to hang in there and experience the healing that's going on, while we make our way to the exit.

We continue our series on change with more pointers from Rev. Ellen Debenport's book, Hell in the Hallway, Light at the Door; including the importance of not rushing out of the hallway's discomfort and risk ending up in yet another hellish dead-end corridor of despair.

Let's be honest, when a door slams shut behind us but the one ahead has not yet opened, it can be hell in the hallway. How do we keep our spiritual wits about us while moving through dark corridors of change toward the glimmering light at the door ahead? Our episode guest, Rev. Ellen Debenport, has some ideas to share on the gift of life in the hallway.

There's a reason why one of our host's favorite mottos is, "Subject to change as directed by Spirit." Hold on tight because, just as happens in life, we're taking an unscheduled change in direction that will undoubtedly lead us to exactly where we need to be.

There's always ample opportunity to grow when we're trekking the spiritual path, as our host and her special guest TJ Woodward discuss in this episode. Thankfully, as we become more conscious, we discover there's also lots of room in which to do so.

It's the final leg of our 28-Day Captain's Log Journaling Challenge, and our host wonders out loud, "Can you hear me now?" as she extends an invitation to not only listen in to the episode, but also more actively and intently listen to one another.

Week Three of our 28-Day Captain's Log Journaling Challenge invites an expedition into the territory of fear. It either inadvertently motivates our actions or creates a "Know-It-All" facade behind which we hide in a futile attempt to mask the hold it has on us. Thankfully, patterns that lie beneath the surface can be changed.

In the second week of our 28-Day Captain's Log Journaling Challenge, we're encouraged to weed out those harsh judgments we sometimes levy at ourselves and others and, instead, plant seeds of empathy that will blossom as loving-kindness.

In this 28-Day Challenge, our host invites us to glide past resistances we may have to journaling and, instead, use it as a prayer and meditation tool to chronicle the mystical journey we've embarked upon. Are you up for the challenge? Tune in to hear what's involved.

This is not your grandmother's secret ingredient. This key, to which our host refers, is already in the hands of every one of us. We choose when and how to use it to unclasp doors we never even knew were locked.