{"id":846,"date":"2025-06-27T18:36:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/?page_id=846"},"modified":"2025-06-27T19:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T19:04:50","slug":"centering-prayer-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/centering-prayer-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Method of Centering Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Below are the Four <strong>Centering Prayer Guidelines<\/strong> and you can also read more about the practice in this <a href=\"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/06\/The-Method-of-Centering-Prayer.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"The Method of Centering Prayer\">Brochure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>1\/ Choose a sacred word as the symbol of your<br>intention to consent to God\u2019s presence and<br>action within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>2\/ Sitting comfortably and with eyes closed,<br>settle briefly and silently introduce the sacred<br>word as the symbol of your consent to God\u2019s<br>presence and action within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>3\/ When engaged with your thoughts**, return<br>ever-so-gently to the sacred word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>4\/ At the end of the prayer period, remain in silence<br>with eyes closed for a couple of minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p>** \u201cthoughts\u201d is an umbrella term for every<br>perception, including body sensations, sense<br>perceptions, feelings, images, memories, plans,<br>reflections, concepts, commentaries, and<br>spiritual experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Below are the Four Centering Prayer Guidelines and you can also read more about the practice in this Brochure. &nbsp; 1\/ Choose a sacred word as the symbol of yourintention to consent to God\u2019s presence andaction within. &nbsp; 2\/ Sitting comfortably and with eyes closed,settle briefly and silently introduce the sacredword as the symbol &#8230; <a title=\"The Method of Centering Prayer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/centering-prayer-guidelines\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Method of Centering Prayer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"The Method of Centering Prayer","description":"Centering Prayer Guidelines"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-846","page","type-page","status-publish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/846\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centeringprayer.com\/western-north-carolina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}