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"Creator ineffabilis" (Latin for "O Creator Ineffable") is a Christian prayer composed by the 13th-century Doctor of the Church Thomas Aquinas.It is also called the "Prayer of the St. Thomas Aquinas Before Study" (Latin: Orátio S. Thomæ Aquinátis ante stúdium) because St. Thomas "would often recite this prayer before he began his studies, writing, or preaching."
Among the earliest documented evidence to the use of hitbodedut as a spiritual practice can be found in the teachings of the Jewish pietistic movement in Egypt. In these teachings, depending on the context, hitbodedut can mean one of three things: "either spiritual retreat to a secluded place... the meditational technique practiced during such a retreat... the psychological state resulting ...
The phrase thoughts and prayers is frequently used in the United States as an expression of condolences for victims of natural disasters (e.g. Hurricane Katrina in 2005, [8] [9] the 2010 Canterbury earthquake [10] 2011 Christchurch earthquake, [11] [12] [13] the 2017 Central Mexico earthquake, and Hurricane Maria in 2017 [1]).
Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, 1548. Mental prayer is a form of prayer "performed without aid of any particular formula." [1] It is distinguished from vocal prayers, "prayers performed by means of a given formula," [1] Prayer is mental when the thoughts and affections of the soul are not expressed in a previously determined formula.
Prayer: An effort to communicate with God, or to some deity or deities, or another form of spiritual entity, or otherwise, either to offer praise, to make a request, or simply to express one's thoughts and emotions. Prophecy: In a broad sense, is the prediction of future events.
Catharsis is from the Ancient Greek word κάθαρσις, katharsis, meaning "purification" or "cleansing", commonly used to refer to the purification and purgation of thoughts and emotions by way of expressing them. The desired result is an emotional state of renewal and restoration.
Seen as the simplest form of message production, the fundamental premise of Expressive Design Logic is that “Language is a medium for expressing thoughts and feelings.” [3] [4] This premise is the simplest of the three logics and explains that someone says what they feel. As long as this feeling is conveyed in the message, the message is ...
Individuals have some conscious control of their emotional expressions; [1] however, they need not have conscious awareness of their emotional or affective state in order to express emotion. Researchers in psychology have proposed many different and often competing theoretical models to explain emotions and emotional expression, going as far ...