Welcoming Prayer
The Welcoming Prayer is a method of actively letting go of thoughts and feelings that support the false-self system. It helps to dismantle the emotional programs of the false-self system and to heal the wounds of a lifetime by addressing them where they are stored - in the body. The method of the Welcoming Prayer includes noticing the feelings, emotions, thoughts and sensations in your body, welcoming them, and then letting them go. Practicing the Welcoming Prayer offers one the opportunity to make choices free of the false-self system — responding instead of reacting to the present moment.
The purpose of the Welcoming Prayer is to deepen one's relationship with God through consenting to God's presence and action in the ordinary activities of daily life. In this way, the Welcoming Prayer supports all forms of prayer, like Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina, which share the purpose of growing in relationship with God through consenting to His presence and action.
New: Welcoming Prayer Brochure
Welcoming Prayer Icelandic Translation: Fagnaðarbænin
The Practice of Welcoming Prayer, 16 page ebook by Cherry Haisten
Welcoming Prayer Workshops
History of the Welcoming Prayer
The founding genius behind the Welcoming Prayer was Mary Mrozowski, one of Thomas Keating's closest associates and a prime mover in the development and popularization of his teachings. She based the Welcoming Prayer on the 17th-century French spiritual classic Abandonment to Divine Providence by Jean-Pierre de Caussade as well as Fr. Keating's teachings and her own lived experience of transformation with its underlying attitude of surrender. The practice proved so powerful in bringing about real inner change that it was soon being offered throughout the Contemplative Outreach network.
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