Prayer and Meditation Practice

Ask Your Spirit Guides and Soul Partners

When I began this prayer and meditation practice several years ago, I didn’t intend to make public these daily inspirations nor was my intent to develop a process for connecting with Spirit Guides and Soul Partners. I did believe in daily prayer for many years. Being raised Catholic, I spent every weekday morning through grade school going to early mass and often went in the evenings with my Aunt Ann to 5:15 mass. At night, I said prayers before I slept, and whenever there was an evening meal with family we said grace before we ate. Prayer was part of my life. I didn't have a sense of personal connection or inspiration, nor did we discuss meditation, but I did engage in a consistent prayer ritual and believed in a Higher Power.

When I entered 12-step recovery with an eating disorder and codependency issues in the late 1980s, there was an increased emphasis on spirituality in my life. Part of working through the 12 steps involved developing a relationship with a Higher Power and integrating spiritual meditation into daily life. I was no longer attending the Catholic Church or any church on a regular basis but my prayer and meditation practices along with my spiritual life blossomed. Morning and evening prayer and meditation became part of my routine.

During the next twenty years, I experimented with different types of prayer and meditation practices including transcendental, chanting meditations, deep breathing meditations and focusing as a form of meditation. I also did several sets of 40 days of meditating and chanting for health, prosperity and the ideal relationship. I have memories of my four-year-old daughter crawling into my lap early in the morning as I sat cross-legged in the living room practicing the latest technique for prayer and meditation, chanting and manifesting my heart’s desires. All was good and each practice brought its unique gifts.

Over the last ten years, I began to develop a great affinity and curiosity for learning about Mary Magdalene and the Sacred Feminine. I think my Catholic upbringing brought me to a deep appreciation of the Mother Goddess as a result of another female figure, the Virgin Mary. It was Mary Magdalene, however, who inspired something within me in recent years. As the quintessential feminine energy, I felt a kinship with her that seemed to nest in my core. I studied masculine and feminine energies and began to see Mary Magdalene in my mind, what I thought she looked like, how she might have behaved or spoken.

Mary Magdalene began to appear in my mind’s eye during my daily prayer and meditation. It was an unbelievable gift to me and one that still amazes me. Stay turned for more details about my own prayer and meditation practice and how you can use it in your own life to connect with your Spirit Guides and Soul Partners.

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