In each group, after our connection time, we practice an embodiful meditation—usually guided—to help us move into an awakened state of consciousness together in the collective field. This tunes us into a greater sense of awareness and sensitivity to our embodied, spiritual knowing from each of our four centers and to the forms of divine presence among us.

Then we begin to pray for one another. But not in the traditional way we might think of when we hear those words.

We go around and focus on each person individually for a few minutes. In this time, we are first and foremost sending love from our hearts to them. We call this engaging in the flow silently, recognizing that what we are sharing energetically and silently is just as important as any words that might come forth. We are beholding the other in loving care, transmitting that love and energy, offering healing, comfort, and care. We are coming into resonance with them.

We are also attuning ourselves to sensing what might be emerging in us for them. As we come into inner resonance, noticing and discerning what is arising in us, we are welcome to “speak forth” what we sense coming from our various centers of spiritual knowing in our awakened state of consciousness. This practice of “speaking forth” is what the Bible called “prophecy,” which isn’t the most helpful word now with all its negative associations and misuses. But what the word actually means is to “speak forth,” to give voice to our awakened knowing from spirit.

Our Whole-Body Mystical Awakening meditative practice helps tune us into a consciousness of spiritual knowing in ways that are deeper than our normal, ordinary consciousness.

The Apostle Paul said we do all of this for the purpose of strengthening, comforting, and encouraging one another (I Cor. 14:3). You may notice that these words come right after the famous chapter on love.

Paul was saying this is how we love one another.

And that is exactly our intent here as well.

Praying from our Awakened, Divine Consciousness

In seeking to love one another in this way, we’re practicing a mystical way of knowing and being with one another. The way of divine love together, much like the early church practiced. When we participate in this spirit with the wholeness of our embodied consciousness, we can be present with one another with greater wisdom, healthier discernment, and holistic presence.

Here are some ways it can come forth in each of our centers:

• Head

We are most used to communicating and sharing from our heads, from our everyday mind. These thoughts, ideas, and information are helpful in general. But in this space, in our awakened consciousness, we seek to open our mind to new arisings. Bringing forth not what we already know, but what we are about to know. This is the present emergence of visionary knowing, often in the form of images, pictures, specific words, smells, sounds, and more.

• Heart

When we tune into our heart for one another, we more often experience sensations and feelings. Sometimes it is a fullness of familiar feelings like love and care. And we also might experience unusual or uncommon sensations in our heart, such as a warmth, perhaps a “pull” in a certain direction, or sometimes even a sort of strain (don’t fear—that’s not a heart attack but just your heart consciousness expanding!). We can always share what we are feeling in our heart with the person we are focusing on. You may notice subtle changes in these sensations as the focus moves around to others in the group.

• Spiritual Womb

Sensing from our spiritual womb can often be more difficult, as awareness from this center does not come in thoughts or feelings. It also might be unfamiliar for many of us, so we can give ourselves a lot of grace as we are discovering our awareness and knowing from this space. One of the primary ways of knowing from our womb is through intuition. This can be confused with the head because it comes like a thought, but it arises from deep within and with a discernable force. “I’m not sure how I know this, but I just seem to know.” We can also experience subtle energies like generativity, nurturing, creativity, and more.

• Feet/Body

Our feet are the contact point for our whole body, for our somatic knowing. Firstly, our grounded rooting often intertwines and interconnects with others in the group, especially in the meditation time. As we cultivate our somatic, relational knowing, when we focus on others, we may notice an energetic sensation somewhere in our body. This can speak to physical conditions, but in the field of awakened knowing we also might sense energetic metaphors, such as a feeling of wings on someone’s back, or a crown on their head. Or maybe an intensification of energy in a particular center.

Those are just some of the ways we can experience spiritual knowing from each of our centers. Many people focus first on the visual, as it seems to be more accessible for most. But if you aren’t seeing any pictures, it may be that your primary way of spiritual knowing is from another center.

We all have different “native tongues” when it comes to our mystical languages, one center that will probably feel the most palpable. Feel free to go with that center most of the time, and then in time we can always work to develop our other centers the more we practice. In doing so, we further awaken to and integrate our inherent knowing from our whole body, from our complete self, transparent to all of our structures of consciousness.

We can do this in the whole group field as well as for each individual, but we’ve found that starting with singular attention on someone helps us learn to better recognize what is arising and emerging with a little more clarity when it is focused in this way. Over time, groups can learn to practice this way of knowing and sensing in a more open field.

Healthy Interrelational Spiritual Practice

This form of praying with one another might be a little difficult at first for many. It is entering into a way of relating to one another that is unfamiliar and spiritually intimate. As with anything that has the power to be transformative and deeply healing, it also can evoke relational difficulties. When many spiritual practices seek to avoid this sometimes-messy space, they further segment and reinforce our unhealthy individualism and miss the great potential and potency of a nurturing and loving collective field.

But we need to be heartful and healthy about it!

We seek to engage in this as an intentional spiritual practice. We are all learning and developing together, so we have the freedom to experiment and offer without knowing for sure if we are getting it exactly right. Because we are in a safe space with a committed group sharing similar intentions and divine love, we can choose to trust one another in the process. It takes time to learn discernment and deepen in our awareness of spiritual knowing in this consciousness. Everything we offer is given freely and lovingly, and with the humility and grace to say, “here’s what I’m experiencing,” take it or leave it. There is no authority over anyone in what we are sharing for one another.

We are all at different places of development and learning in our practice, and that’s completely ok. So we don’t need to compare to others or compete in any way—this is not a practice where our ego is in charge. We don’t need to worry about performance anxiety or what others are thinking. We are simply coming as we are, where we are, to try to learn and develop a little more each time.

WeSpace Groups are containers of “holding loving space” for one another—to bless one another, for strengthening, comforting, and encouraging one another. Everything we share with one another should be with this guiding discernment. If we sense any pain, negative energy, or struggle, we simply hold it in love. As we hold it, often another movement of spirit comes with something to bring encouragement, strength, or comfort with it. But not always.

We want to be careful to discern that we are not putting our own projections on others. And as receivers, we can often sense if what is shared is an authentic message for our spirit to take in. If it isn’t, we don’t hold any ill-will toward the other, as they are learning in their practice also. We all get better at this with more practice and loving feedback either in the moment or afterward.

We are also not trying to fix one another, give advice, correct, diagnose, warn, or teach anyone anything. It is always a process to recognize our own compulsions and well-meaning ways that we often try to rescue others. That is operating from our ordinary consciousness rather than the awakened knowing and being with one another in freedom and empowering care. We do our best to stay off the drama triangle of becoming a rescuer, a persecutor, or a victim.

This way of praying is not a psychic reading, though some of the same spiritual faculties are at work. While it’s tantalizing to delight in another way of knowing, and we can enjoy these developments in ourselves and the shared experiences of mystical knowing, the point is always to focus on how what is coming forth is enhancing our way of being together and the life being offered to one another. We are not prescriptive with any indications of what “ought to” or “needs” to be done, but rather we are simply describing what is coming forth and leaving the actions and discernment to the receiver.

The things that are shared can touch us deeply and speak to us in profound ways. Many find it helpful to take notes, writing down the things people share—not only to help remember (they can be fleeting in our memory afterward, almost dream-like), but also because a lot of times the metaphors and pictures need time and space to soak into us. And you can offer feedback if you like, “that really fits with my experience” or “I’ll have to think about that.” We also shouldn’t be too quick to try to interpret or “make sense” of what is shared, especially with our minds alone.

This may seem like a lot of guidelines, as I’ve tried to be quite thorough here from what we’ve learned and experienced in the groups over the years. Most of these come naturally to us if we are in a loving and safe space, but it’s helpful to have a strong sense of ways that the practice can occasionally stray into less-healthy situations.

Why Resonating Prayer?  

As our spirituality grows and evolves, traditional prayer becomes more limited in how it resonates for connecting with God and aiding us. We need new ways of prayer that lead us into deeper connection with divine presence—within, among, and beyond us. Not reaching out to a distant figure, but present in the heartful communion and intimate immediacy.   

And it is a practice of transformation of consciousness. As we learn to further awaken to and open our embodied ways of knowing, we integrate our latent structures of consciousness in the divine energy and personal incarnation. Springing forth greater wholeness and presence.

This transforms our way of being with ourselves, others, and the world. It helps us practice a way of interacting with others that are more full of love and care, beholding the divine within one another which evokes more joy, peace, goodness, and more.

The best way to really learn and discover all of this is just to move into the experience and practice of it!

In our new WeSpace groups, we use the first two meetings to learn other elements of the practice as we build up to the full core practice with Resonating Prayer together. If you’d like to learn and be together with others in this way, you can sign up to join a WeSpace group below:  

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