Fear of Prayer and meditation

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I have a bit of a dilemma with my spiritual life. Every time I start getting closer to God and increasing time praying and meditating, I start getting scared. I become so overcome with fear that I stop. It isn’t anxiety or fear of things going on in my life, it’s a paralyzing fear of going too deep into my spirituality. Several years ago I fell away from the church and dabbled in the occult and yoga. I would have paralyzing dreams of evil, and the only thing that I could do to wake me up from the dream would be praying a Hail Mary. This continued until I came back to the church, which was a few months later. Ever since then I cannot go into deep prayer unless I am inside of a church or at the Blessed Sacrament. Has this happened to anyone else? How did you overcome this?
I am sure that through more prayer, fasting and confession it will go away. But I would like to know if anyone else has had the same problem
 
Welcome home🙏
Been to confession since returning ? It would help to discuss your issue with a Priest and get advice.

I suggest just one hail mary at a time, dont make a big thing of it. Pray as you work.

What type of meditation do you mean?
 
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Hi! Thanks for replying
Yes I have been to confession since I came back to the church about 7 years ago.
I downloaded an app called Hallow to have prayers and meditations in one app and it’s a Catholic meditation app. This is an issue I’ve had since before falling away from the church, but became worse since experimenting with other faiths. I can’t seem to overcome the fear of going deep, and I feel called to go deeper despite the paralyzing fear.
Thank you for your advice and you’re right, I should discuss with a Priest
 
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