JoyOver is a spiritual practice app helping you cultivate a more examined and contemplative way of life so you can live a more awakened experience of joy.
Exploring the soul work of practice
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Learn
Expand Your Mind.
We offer diverse topics curated for the practice of learning: contemplation, gratitude, meditation, prayer, spiritual formation, mindfulness, Ignatian spirituality, joy, metacognition, and more.
Listen
Practice Presence.
We offer a rich repertoire of spiritual practices for the practice of listening: Breath Prayer, Gospel Contemplation, Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina, Mindfulness Meditation, Praying Scripture, The Examen, and more.
Live
Life Examined.
We offer a curated collection of resources for the practice of examined living: gratitude challenges, personal retreats, a toolkit collective, tracking, conversation cues, and more.
We are what we practice.
We’re all practicing something.
Learn
Expand your mind.
The practice of learning expands one’s mind to consider new possibilities of thinking. Allowing openness and teachability to be one’s guide in order to grow and mature into new ways of being is how practice expands and presence deepens.
Listen
Practice presence.
The practice of listening is what ushers in awareness and attuned presence; it’s about recognizing and “hearing” opportunity for practice in self, work, nature, circumstances, the voice of other, and the sacred workings of God’s Spirit in the every day. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Live
Life Examined.
The practice of contemplative living is what brings one’s external and interior worlds into alignment. By paying attention to the continual unfoldings of everyday life with one’s whole self, a life of practice is awakened and experienced through the inherent and incarnate holiness of each present moment.
“Your practice might be some form of meditation, such as sitting motionless in silence, attentive and awake to the abyss-like nature of each breath. Your practice might be heartfelt prayer, slowly reading the scriptures, gardening, baking bread, writing, or reading poetry, drawing, or painting, or perhaps running or taking long, slow walks in no place in particular. Your practice may be to be alone, really alone, without any addictive props and diversions. Or your practice may be that of being with that person in whose presence you are called to a deeper place. The critical factor is not so much what the practice is in its externals as the extent to which the practice incarnates an utterly sincere stance of awakening and surrendering to the Godly nature of the present moment.” —James Finley
