Savio Rodrigues SJ

Do not bother what the drawing looks like. Use lines to draw. Do not draw any figures.

Take a sheet of paper and fold it into eight equal parts. Then in each of the parts draw: Anger, Joy, Peace, Depression, Power, Illness, Femininity and one feeling of your own choice.

Before you start, close your eyes and centre yourself.

Now try and imagine the last time you felt any of these emotions. Feel these emotions all over again by RE-LIVING them. Let these emotions move slowly from the heart to the head and to the hand, and draw them out.

In praying this way you are bringing your insights to a conscious level.

It makes your thought visible, and demonstrates the reality of the visual language.

Your drawings will also reveal your commonness and your uniqueness in relation to others.

I call this a form of prayer because in trying to re-live your experiences, you grow in self-awareness and this is getting in touch with your inner self, which is almost synonymous with the God within you. And prayer is nothing but awareness of God’s presence, in any form.

The Prayer Method on this page has been provided with permission from the book Pray: How? by Savio Rodrigues SJ