There are different ways of praying.
The best way for you to pray is the way that you find
easiest.
Here are a few suggestions which
different people have found to be helpful.
1. Plan to pray;
do not leave it to chance. Select a time and a place
(a room at home, on the bus, taking a walk).
2. Decide on how
long you will spend in trying to pray (five minutes,
ten, fifteen, thirty or more).
3. Decide what you
are going to do when you pray - e.g. which prayer
to select to say slowly and lovingly.
4. Always start
by asking the Holy Spirit for help in your prayers.
Pray: “Come Holy Spirit, teach me to pray; help
me to do it”.
5. Remember you
are trying to get in touch with a Person, and that
Person is God - Father or Son or Holy Spirit.
6. Don’t be
a slave to one way of praying. Choose the one that
you find easiest, and try some other method.
7. Don’t look
for results.
8. If you have distractions,
then turn your distractions into your prayer.
9. If you always
feel dry and uninterested at prayer, then read a spiritual
book or pamphlet.
10. Trying to pray
is praying. Never give up trying.
