Episode 5: Least Resistance

One Heart One Mind

Thomas McConkie

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

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Contemplation is all about cultivating a relationship with the Divine, and relationship is inherently vulnerable. It’s not surprising then that when we set out to cultivate this most unique of relationships that we find ourselves putting up defenses—resisting the process of deepening our encounter with God. But even our resistance proves to be a great resource in opening our hearts in prayer.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of One Heart, One Mind.
0:14.4	My name is Thomas Mconki and I will be your host.
0:22.4	I just feel like taking an out breath when I sit down to record this podcast when I sit down
0:30.2	to connect with you and deepen my prayer practice.
0:32.7	So I hope wherever you are, whatever you're doing, however you're feeling that you can do the same.
0:41.1	Just really appreciate an out breath, a letting go, an implicit in an out breath and a letting go
0:51.6	a trust, a trust that you can let go, and that it's going to be
0:57.0	okay. It is okay already.
1:03.0	Okay, here we are. Episode five, I'm thrilled to be back. Thank you for sharing the space with me.
1:12.2	I want to talk to you today about resistance,
1:16.4	the resistance that comes up in our life of prayer and contemplation.
1:23.4	So I'm taking my time introducing what contemplation is, and we're going to continue to deepen.
1:33.1	Something that contemplation is not something from which contemplation is distinct is mindfulness meditation.
1:42.4	I'm not going to talk about what mindfulness meditation is. I'm a big
1:45.9	fan of mindfulness. I've trained in it for decades. We're doing something different here.
1:52.4	What is contemplation? How is it distinct from mindfulness? Well, at a deep level, at a basic level, I would say that contemplation is all about learning
2:06.0	who we are in relationship to God. Contemplation is about cultivating a relationship with the source
2:16.5	of all life, with the ground of being.
2:21.2	And some people call this reality divine or God.
2:27.1	So fundamentally, contemplation is about a relationship.
2:32.6	And for all of us, this relationship that we're cultivating with the divine,
2:38.0	with the ultimate, with the source of life, it's going to be different.
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