Preparing to pray

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How do you quiet your mind and prepare for prayer? I find it difficult many times to concentrate during my prayer and often find myself thinking about other things. How have some of you felt with this in your prayer life?

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I’d imagine that we all get distracted while praying at times… if you catch yourself just refocus. I try to pray often throughout the day, rather than just having a set prayer time, that helps, too.
 
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I find it difficult many times to concentrate during my prayer and often find myself thinking about other things
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I would guess that about 99.9% of us are the same. Even when praying the rosary I can find I’m on decade 6 or 7 and realize I’ve been thinking about something else entirely. The intention is important, though, and God more than understands our human tendencies and distractions.
 
I’m struggling with this alot lately and am trying to create a prayer space, which amounts to a little spot in my closet away from everyone.
 
Like most, I get distracted during prayer too. I just try to do what I read many years ago, I think it was from St. Therese, who also got distracted during prayer. (I think I remember reading that she had trouble meditating during the Rosary.) Anyway, the advice was to just try to pray about whatever is distracting you. If someone comes into your mind during your prayers, pray for that person or whatever situation you’re distracted by. Just try to bring everything under the umbrella of prayer. That’s what I do and it really helps. The one thing you don’t want to do is get angry with yourself. We are very weak creatures and God knows that. Just calmly bring yourself back to focus even if it is 20 times that you have to do it during one prayer session. And don’t forget to ask God to help you focus.
 
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Anyway, the advice was to just try to pray about whatever is distracting you. If someone comes into your mind during your prayers, pray for that person or whatever situation you’re distracted by. Just try to bring everything under the umbrella of prayer. That’s what I do and it really helps.
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I had never heard this! What a brilliant idea. Thank you for sharing it.
 
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