Can some music create an interior environment that enhances the possibility of divine encounter?

“Music can be a vehicle for transporting the psyche back and forth between ordinary consciousness and contemplative awareness.”
Mary T. Rankin

Audio Divina
Music-assisted Contemplative Prayer

Audio Divina (sacred listening) is a music-assisted contemplative prayer practice designed for contemporary spiritual seekers. Music therapy principles and Lectio Divina (sacred reading) an ancient Christian prayer form, provide the structure for Audio Divina.

  Carefully selected music has the power to deepen contemplative prayer or meditation. Audio Divina music programs are designed to enhance the experience of sacred silence. Appropriate music is programmed into a pattern of sound and silence which facilitates a receptivity to divine encounter. This self-guided listening practice offers a quality of silence that can be nourishing for body, mind, and spirit.

  While technology has improved our world in many ways, our reliance on television and the internet may be promoting a dominance of visual stimulus over auditory stimulus. Our listening function plays an important role in psychological development and spiritual growth.

  Sensitive music listening is a tool that can help revive our ability to listen in silent prayer. The only requirement to use Audio Divina sucessfully as a prayer/meditation practice is a willingess to sit quitely for approximately twenty minutes and listen to one of the Audio Divina music programs. This practice is effective for beginning a prayer discipline or for deepening a well established prayer practice.

Mary Terry Rankin Bio

Uses of Audio Divina

Audio Divina Music Programs

Contact:
Mary T. Rankin, M.A.
mary@audiodivina.com
360.332.5665