Encircled By Grace - The Irish Encircling Prayer For Protection

The ancient Caim prayer has been used for centuries to bring comfort, protection, and peace—just as it can in your life today. Here I introduce you to the origins, historical significance, and spiritual context of the Irish Encircling Prayer, also known as the Caim prayer. Similar to the metta or loving-kindness practice which comes to us from the Buddhist tradition and is used in secular mindfulness today, the Caim is also part of a living tradition within Celtic Spiritual practice and offers us peace in our often fragmented 21st-century lives.

By the end of this track, I hope that you will be able to identify how and when you can bring this ancient living tradition into your own life for protection, healing, and peace for yourself and others.

The Celts were very spiritual people and we know that their belief system was not just to the Gods but also to the moon, the sun, the stars, the rivers, the animals, and the trees. I am grateful that so many Celtic traditions from music, language, mythology, and spiritual rituals have been passed down and can provide solace and healing today. In this track I invite you to a practice of Caim.

This track includes some guidelines for your ongoing, deepening practice of Caim. I include the chant - Caim Agus Currach which at once connects you with the living tradition of this prayer, and also invites you into deeper meditation so that your own Caim will naturally emerge for you. - I encourage you to evoke the Caim prayer into your life whether you have a faith tradition or not. You can connect with the ground of your being, your place in the cosmos, source or divine, meaning and purpose, or whatever is your direct experience of living this human life, not as isolated human beings, but rather as part of the ongoing unfolding interconnectedness of this human experience. Whatever way you experience the connection it is possible for you to feel the protective energy surrounding you. I hope you enjoy some personal reflection and journaling. If you are happy to share something of your experience I would love to see that too here in NRJ so that together we might explore the very many ways we can continue to benefit from this ancient living tradition.

In this final part of our journey together, now that you have grounded your own particular practice of this ancient living prayer, I invite you to make your own contribution to this living tradition. One way is to move beyond the focus on the individual human person and keeping danger out, to expand the awareness of the living cosmos of which we are part and so to invite blessing for the whole as well as the interconnected parts. Thank you for joining me o this journey.