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The Exercises are seen variously as an occasion for a change of life [2]: 18 and as a school of contemplative prayer. The most common way for laypersons to go through the Exercises now is a "retreat in daily life", which involves a five- to seven-month programme of daily prayer and meetings with a spiritual director. [ 17 ]
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Prison contemplative programs are classes or practices (which includes meditation, yoga, contemplative prayer or similar) that are offered at correctional institutions for inmates and prison staff. There are measured or anecdotally reported benefits from studies of these programs such a stress relief for inmates and staff. [ 1 ]
The Visitacion Valley Middle School began the program in 2007 [61] [62] [63] and the Everett Middle School and John O'Connell High School began the program sometime after that. [64] The Maharishi Institute, an African university, was founded in 2007 and uses the Transcendental Meditation technique in its programs. [65] [66]
Many school districts and states attempted to reestablish school-sponsored prayer in different forms since 1962. [25] Since the 1990s, controversy in the courts has tended to revolve around prayer at school-sponsored extracurricular activities. Examples can be seen in the cases of Lee v.
The Dhamma Brothers is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama.The film features four inmates, all convicted of murder, and includes interviews with guards, prison officials, local residents and other inmates, and reenactments of their crimes.
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Mental prayer is a form of meditational prayer, "performed without aid of any particular formula." [ 1 ] It is distinguished from vocal prayers, "prayers performed by means of a given formula." [ 1 ] The aim of mental prayer is 'to inflame souls with the love of God' and 'live without sin'.