How to Pray Without Cessantly

Prayer often gets crowded out as the calendar fills up with other duties, or we simply become too mentally drained or tigue during the day to conduct so called formal prayer session. I suppose the best way to describe this problem with trying to pray without ceasing is that we tend to over intellectualized prayer. For many of us, prayer means nothing more than speaking with god. And since it usually seems to be a quite one sided affair, prayer simply means talking to god. This kind of hesocastic prayer is associated with a style of prayer now called contemplative prayer which is very similar to the ancient form of christian meditation practised by the desert fathers and mothers of the early