Guided contemplative prayer meditations to lead you into a deeper, more intimate experience of God.
Join Tony and Dan each week as we guide you through a contemplative meditation practice. Press play, sit back, and follow along as we lead you through contemplative practices both ancient and modern, with the simple intention of creating space for you to experience God deeply in communion. Find true soul care. Find rest. Find stillness. Find healing. Find revelation - of a deeper knowing of God, a deeper knowing of self, and a deeper connection to the divine.
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Guided contemplative prayer meditations to lead you into a deeper, more intimate experience of God.
Join Tony and Dan each week as we guide you through a contemplative meditation practice. Press play, sit back, and follow along as we lead you through contemplative practices both ancient and modern, with the simple intention of creating space for you to experience God deeply in communion. Find true soul care. Find rest. Find stillness. Find healing. Find revelation - of a deeper knowing of God, a deeper knowing of self, and a deeper connection to the divine.
Neurodiverse
Hi. My name is Tony. I'm an Urban Mystic & I have ADD.
Neurodiversity and contemplative prayer may seem like two unlikely friends.
“Just quite your mind.”
“Let your thoughts go.”
“Enter into stillness and silence.”
Ha! For an ADD brain like mine, these kinds of instructions are hard to hear. I have never experienced a “quiet mind” or had enough control of the thought activity in my brain to decide that I was going to “let them go.” The more I tried to do contemplation the way typical brains do contemplation, the more I was led into frustration, envy, and failure.
I created this episode for all of the people that I have spoken to that experience the tension between meditation and neurodiverse brains. The truth is, you can experience deep stillness and enter into deep presence with God – you just have to discover how YOU do that best, and then let yourself do it. It might not follow all the “rules,” but let’s be real – neurodiverse brains also tend to have a tenuous relationship with rules, so that shouldn’t be too much of an issue.
I truly hope this series of episodes is helpful for Urban Mystics listeners in some way. I hope that each of you hears something in this that was for you – something your soul needed to hear.
This episode is written, hosted and produced by Tony Duppong, exclusively for the Urban Mystics Podcast.
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Valley of Silence Meditation Audio File # 122612 by alanfrijins https://pixabay.com/music/meditationspiritual-valley-of-silence-meditation-yoga-relaxation-work-study-sleep-music-122612/
Urban Mystics
Guided contemplative prayer meditations to lead you into a deeper, more intimate experience of God.
Join Tony and Dan each week as we guide you through a contemplative meditation practice. Press play, sit back, and follow along as we lead you through contemplative practices both ancient and modern, with the simple intention of creating space for you to experience God deeply in communion. Find true soul care. Find rest. Find stillness. Find healing. Find revelation - of a deeper knowing of God, a deeper knowing of self, and a deeper connection to the divine.
