Episode 3: Your Body as Prayer

One Heart One Mind

Thomas McConkie

Meditation, Spirituality, Mindfulness, Contemplation, Psychology, Buddhism, Development, Thomasmcconkie, Religion & Spirituality

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a world where the mind and body are too often split, not only do we do a lot of talking in our prayers, but we forget what a vital instrument the body is in our prayer life. In reality, we can’t pray without the body. Our body IS prayer. In this episode, you’ll learn to “ride the waves” of the body’s knowing into deeper communion with the Divine. Welcome to One Heart, One Mind, One Body.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of One Heart, One Mind. I'm your host Thomas McConkey.
0:17.6	Thank you so much for listening. I'm excited to be back. This is a new delight in my life.
0:26.0	Looking forward each week to recording, to exploring some topic of prayer and getting to share that
0:34.8	with you, the listener. So thank you for being here.
0:39.3	Thank you for giving the occasion to explore one of my favorite topics, one of my favorite
0:45.4	activities in human life, which is prayer practice.
0:52.0	Last week, I talked about the way that humans started to think about themselves
1:01.2	differently, different from any other point in history where I summed it up in Descartes thinking,
1:08.3	cogito ergo sum, I think, therefore I am.
1:12.2	My thoughts are the seat of my identity.
1:16.9	And I talked about how thinking so much about thinking and identifying ourselves with thinking
1:24.1	actually disrupted our capacity to access deep quiet.
1:29.3	So if you want to listen and learn about the prayer of quiet,
1:34.3	if you want to develop your relationship to stillness and quiet in your life,
1:39.3	last week's episode does that.
1:42.3	At least it starts a conversation.
1:45.5	This week, I want to continue along that vein just for a moment and observe that
1:50.8	when we think about ourselves as thinking beings, when we understand ourselves to be
1:57.3	intellectual, rational beings, we naturally pay attention to our thoughts. We pay attention
2:03.3	to our thoughts during the day. We pay attention to our thoughts during the night. We pay attention
2:08.8	to our thoughts when we pray. In my opinion, we pay too much attention to our thoughts. And because we pay so much attention to our thoughts, we miss out on a lot of the other good stuff going on in life.
2:25.7	What I want to focus on particularly in this episode is what's going on in the body.
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