Practicing Embodied Prayer

Posture Matters

Prayer is more than a mental exercise. It’s physical too. I want to encourage you to embody times of prayer. Let’s consider our postures when we pray.

We know prayer is spiritual, but we should also understand the physical side of prayer. Spirituality doesn’t ignore physicality. As new creations in Christ, we are learning how to pray. We teach people about supplication, intercession, and prayers of thanksgiving. There is another how to our prayers that is overlooked. Kneeling, arms stretched out, lying face down, eyes looking upward, or hands cupped like we are ready to catch the rain. We need to spend time and attention to how we embody our prayers. Our posture preaches.

Posture Preaches

In many ways, we are already attempting to get our physical posture aligned with our spiritual posture. This isn’t totally foreign to most of us.

In times of prayer, we bow our heads in honor, sincerity, and attention. We close our eyes to signify our singularity of focus—we are talking to God right now.…