• Choose a quiet place and time where you will not be disturbed.

• Sit down.

• Sit still and upright, comfortable and alert, with your back straight.

• Close your eyes lightly. 

• Be aware of your normal breathing pattern for a minute or two as you relax.

• Silently, interiorly, begin to say a single word.

• We recommend the prayer-word or mantra, maranatha.

• Recite it as four syllables of equal length: ma-ra-na-tha.

• Listen to the sound of your mantra as you say it, gently and continuously.

• Do not think or imagine anything – spiritual or otherwise.

• If thoughts and images come, these are distractions at the time of meditation:     keep returning   to simply saying the word.

• Meditate each morning and evening between 20 to 30 minutes.  Use a timing device to avoid looking at a clock. 

• Persist in a daily practice.​​