You asked for our experiences, and many will have good ones.
But, it really didn’t do it for me. I say the Jesus prayer now with a 50 bead prayer rope. I never was able to focus, it was too much for my mind, too much change. I like meditative prayers.
I pray the rosary using YouTube, by myself and I pray the Chaplet Precious Blood of Jesus on YouTube. I pray as much as I can as often as I can. I enjoy the rosary to the point where recently I have been excited to pray and not get bored when I finished praying it. It’s very helpful hearing the rosary ( both the joyful sorrowful and mysterious mysteries and the chaplet of precious blood of Jesus) on YouTube, but I have had more growth while praying the rosary by hand. https://forums.catholic-questions.org/t/padre-pio-interce
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