{"id":15628,"date":"2015-03-19T15:13:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=15628"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:13:20","slug":"a-useful-diagram-of-contemplative-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/a-useful-diagram-of-contemplative-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"A Useful Diagram of Contemplative Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contemplative Practices can be some of the most life-giving and nourishing things we can do (&#8220;do&#8221; is not the best word for it, of course. ha!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I found <a href=\"http:\/\/onbeing.org\/blog\/the-tree-of-contemplative-practices\/7343\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this graphic you see here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/onbeing.org\" target=\"_blank\">onbeing.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It includes\u00a0a number of practices from different religions to show examples of each branch. The roots represent the two may intentions of the contemplative practices found worldwide: <strong>Communication and connection; and awareness. Both are essential for transformation and progressing in maturity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main branches include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Activist<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Relational<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Movement<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ritual\/Cyclical<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Stillness<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Generative<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Creative<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your specific tradition may include examples for\u00a0each branch. For me, plenty was lacking in what I knew of my tradition in its modern form. It wasn&#8217;t until I dug a lot further into history and the whole spectrum of practice, did I see the depth therein and find new opportunities to enrich my soul and increase my felt connection to God and others.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re searching for something in your daily spiritual practices and want to add a new sort of richness, see what you can add from a branch you haven&#8217;t climbed yet.<\/p>\n<p>(\u00a0Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemplativemind.org\/practices\/tree\">Carrie Bergman + design by Maia Duerr<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15629\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treeofpractices-withlabels-864x1024.jpg\" alt=\"treeofpractices-withlabels\" width=\"864\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treeofpractices-withlabels-864x1024.jpg 864w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treeofpractices-withlabels-350x415.jpg 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treeofpractices-withlabels-127x150.jpg 127w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treeofpractices-withlabels-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treeofpractices-withlabels-506x600.jpg 506w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treeofpractices-withlabels.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your specific tradition may include examples for each branch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[4378,5325,765,795,805,855,5995,960,4377,4903,1462,1472,5649,4536,4716,1763,2016,2158,2243,2367,2552,6040,2892,4628,3148,3184,75,3251,3421,4303,3481,4641],"class_list":["post-15628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-be","tag-best","tag-communication","tag-connection","tag-contemplative","tag-creative","tag-depth","tag-design","tag-do","tag-examples","tag-giving","tag-god","tag-graphic","tag-history","tag-if","tag-in","tag-life","tag-maturity","tag-modern","tag-not","tag-photo","tag-practices","tag-ritual","tag-show","tag-soul","tag-spiritual","tag-spiritual-practices","tag-stillness","tag-things","tag-tradition","tag-transformation","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15631,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628\/revisions\/15631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}