Three Aids to Listening

When your head is spinning around with all the things you did today and all the things you have to do, and all the worries you have, try these three exercises to switch your mind over to attentive listening.  It will aid your prayer, perhaps.

Sound page.  See here.

If I were to paint:  turn your gaze to something in the room and ask yourself, "If I were to paint that, what colors would I need, provided I did not mix anything."  Look carefully, and start to list them.  If you were to paint this web-page--greeny-blue, white, dark green, light tan . . . you might be surprised by how still your thoughts become.

List your sorrows.  Too sad to pray?  Too stressed out?  Write it all out, a long list of everything that bothers you.  Put it in God's hands--and there in that space of silence when you've nothing left to write, God can reach in.