When my youngest was born, I started an 18-month journey to lose 100 pounds. It was not easy. I learned a number of lessons during that journey – some I remember and some I have forgotten. This post is a reminder of what I thought I had forgotten.

Prayer breathing is a spiritual discipline thought to be born out of Psalm 150, as best I can tell. The monks in the 5th century took the final verse of the final Psalm to heart and created a method of praying with each breath in and each breath out. Have you heard the saying, “there are no new original ideas any more?” Quilt patterns certainly fall into this category at times. I imagine prayer breathing falls into that same reality. So, for purposes of teaching the practice here, let’s set a foundation.