NDLI: Centering Prayer as a Healing Response to Everyday Stress: A Psychological and Spiritual Process

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Author	Ferguson, Jane K. Willemsen, Elear W. Castañeto, MayLynn V.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Eastern forms of meditation have been widely studied for their effectiveness in stress management (Walsh and Shapiro American Psychologist 61:227–239, 2006). Yet few empirical studies have been conducted on the health effects of Judeo-Christian contemplative prayer practices. This study contributes to research in this underdeveloped area by exploring the outcome of a contemporary form of Christian meditation called Centering Prayer (Keating 1986) on everyday stress and on Christians’ approach to communicating with God. The impact of 10 weekly 2-hour group sessions and individual practice of Centering Prayer 2-times daily by 15 Roman Catholic congregants was hypothesized to decrease participants’ stress and increase their collaborative relationship with God (Pargament et al. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 27:90–104, 1988). Pre-post quantitative and qualitative data on Centering Prayer versus comparison groups supported the hypothesis.
Starting Page	305
Ending Page	329
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00312789
Journal	Pastoral Psychology
Volume Number	59
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15736679
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2009-06-09
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Centering prayer Contemplative prayer Meditation Stress Unconscious Sociology Cross Cultural Psychology Religious Studies Clinical Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Religious Studies Social Psychology Applied Psychology

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