The 26th Sumedha Sadhana – A 9-Week Psychospritual
Wholeness Journey – commenced on July 4th. Participants come from India,
Sri Lanka and Thailand.
The beginning module, entitled “Psychological Dynamics on
the Spiritual Journey,” is facilitated by Jose Parappully, the Director of
Sumedha Centre. This is a foundational module on which other Resource Persons
will build and expand.
The first week was focused on the Spiritual Journey.
Parappully helped participants explore the realities of the “Now Period” of
their lives, discover all that is going with them, how they are being affected
by them and discern what God might be telling them through all these.
He used the Intensive Journal Meditation, along with
Expressive Writing and Drawing in this process of discovery and discernment.
Parappully introduced the participants to Process Spirituality
and Centering Prayer – a simple approach to contemplative prayer and discussed
ways to cultivate deeper prayerfulness.
Somatic Meditations every morning helped participants to
move toward greater integration of body, mind and spirit.
Each day’s activities culminated in the Eucharistic
celebration in which participants were able to bring before the Lord their
experiences of the day and further process and integrate them.
Beginning of the Day and End of the Day Journalling also
helped to integrate the weeks’ experiences.
Friday evening and Saturday morning was spent in silent “Recollection”
during which particpants had time to further assimilate and integrate the week’s experiences
in prayer and through Expressive Writing and Drawing.
At the end of the week, participants reported that they have
already begun to re-frame their experiences and beginning to experience greater
serenity and meaningfulness on their Psycho-Spiritual Journey.
Saturday afternoon and all of Sunday participants have the leisure
to organize their time the way they want. Many of them use the weekend to visit
the nearby tourist attractions.
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