Be Still and Know: Guided Meditations on Gospel Encounters with Jesus Christ

Jesus has a place in your heart, but your prayer life is stagnant.

You want to pray, but your attention is divided between your job, family, and chores, and you can't concentrate.

Or you're so busy running from one task to the next that you can't settle into a prayerful state of mind.

Maybe you simply don't feel like you have a relationship with God. 

These guided meditations will help. They provide a template on which to focus, and supply your five senses with vivid details that your own imagination might be too tired or distracted to supply. Because of the remarkable connection between the mind and body, immersing yourself in the sensory details this way allows you to participate in a Gospel story in a way that feels physiologically real. Everything else fades into the background as you encounter God, enabling you to deepen your relationship with Jesus Christ and experience His peaceful presence. 

Be Still and Know includes a brief introduction to Ignatian imaginative prayer and nine guided meditations on Gospel encounters with Jesus. They are available for immediate download as MP3 files and are suitable for any adult Christian seeking to deepen their relationship with God. Each meditation is 6-9 minutes long and can be paused at any time, allowing you to linger in the story. Different parts of each story will capture your attention at different times, so you can use the same meditation over and over again and still experience it in new ways. Try listening to one meditation each day. You will find a sense of calm and peace. 

I’m Colleen Arnold. I am a physician, writer, retreat leader, and pastoral minister, and sometimes my various responsibilities collide in interesting ways. I first learned about guided meditations in my medical experience. Because of the connection between the mind and the body, visualizations that completely engage the imagination can have physiologic effects. For example, people are guided to visualize their cells fighting infections, or visualize anxiety evaporating off their bodies, and it works. I didn’t make the connection between visualization and prayer until I started reading about St. Ignatius of Loyola. In his Spiritual Exercises, he taught about imaginative prayer, a method of using one's imagination to hear and see Jesus, converse with Him, and develop a personal relationship with Him.

Laura said, “For the morning before work, these short tracks are excellent, peaceful meditations that are a great way to start the day. Her soft and soothing voice brings me right into the scenes she describes.”

Another listener noted, “The audios help me stay spirit-centered in my thoughts and actions all day.” 



Joceyin said, “These meditations help me look at and feel the Gospels in a whole new light as I get to know Jesus.”

Come meet Jesus through the power of your imagination.