God given shivers???

[geocajun]

Did you ever get them when praying by youself? -- That's the part I don't understand, I would think it was nervousness from speaking in front of others (which btw is something I don't typically get nervous about), but because it happens in my own room with the door shut same as it does when I'm in public or with others, I just don't understand.

hrmmmm I recall getting them in anticipation of meeting with people to discuss faith when I was alone, but I do not remember getting them in prayer per se.
Maybe your experiencing something more like what thereselittleflower is discribing.

 

[Michelina]

When the Holy Spirit is active within you, His presence can cause some physical reaction. This reaction may actually be healing you in some way. St Gertrude the Great said that the weakness of the flesh when it is immersed in God produces many such reactions. She said this in explaining her propensity to levitate all over the place. She was the original flying nun.

The mystical does certainly affect the physical. That is why many of the saints seemed to glow so much that the halo became the stylized way to portray them in art. The incorruptibles are also a manisfestation of this principle.

 

[Photini]

What is the cold? It's the fires of Hell being driven away!

If I were going through this, I'd be searching the lives of the Saints and asking my priest to see if any such similar occurance has been experienced before. Most likely, whether good or bad, it has.

 

[Acceptance]

If I were going through this, I'd be searching the lives of the Saints and asking my priest to see if any such similar occurance has been experienced before. Most likely, whether good or bad, it has.

That's a good idea Photini. I will try to do that, and I think I know just the one too...the pastor at my church is being relocated but he hasn't announced to where. 2 weeks ago my boyfriend (who lives a half hour away) and I picked a Catholic church close to him out of a phone book to start going to so he doesn't always have to come by me for mass. Found out after church that day that my beloved pastor is going to that very church! Ya think God is trying to tell me something?!

 

[Photini]

Found out after church that day that my beloved pastor is going to that very church! Ya think God is trying to tell me something?!

Awesome! I definitely don't believe in "coincidence."

 

[LongingForLight]

Wow. I can't believe someone else posted this. I've had this experience of shivering and a cool sensation- not as extreme as thereselittleflower, but usually during Mass when I am physically very warm, and concentrating more than usual on God or Jesus and other Holy things, occasionally during prayer. It is the only physical sensation I can recall repeatedly attributing to the Holy Spirit, though I always kind of down-played it in my head as "Oh, you just *want* to experience the Holy Spirit in some concrete way, you're imagining it." I feel a bit better about that now.

 

[thereselittleflower]

What is the cold? It's the fires of Hell being driven away!

LOL ! I never thought of it in that way!


Peace in Him!

 

[thereselittleflower]

Did you ever get them when praying by youself? -- That's the part I don't understand, I would think it was nervousness from speaking in front of others (which btw is something I don't typically get nervous about), but because it happens in my own room with the door shut same as it does when I'm in public or with others, I just don't understand.

I will share another event that came to mind. While still very much a Protestant, I was in a Christian book store . . there was a narrow display of books in a wood rack that I was looking over. You know how you sometimes unconsiously move your hand over the books you are looking at in case you want to pick one up? Well, as I was doing that, there was this very small book almost hiding by Jack Hayford called The Mary Miracle . . as soon as my hand passed over that book, a wind started to pour down me, with the cold sensation and shakes, and as soon as my hand moved past it, it stopped. .. I as somewhat surprised to say the least, and wondered if I had imagined it or I had just gotten the shivers .. so I moved my hand back to it, and the exact same thing happened. And the presence of the Holy Spirit became so strong . . my hand left the book again as I looked at the others around it, but when my hand passed over it again, the same experience ocured, this time stronger . . It was pretty clear that God wanted me to buy that book, so I did. This experience followed me all the way to the cashier.

Now, this book was helpful to me at the time, it was where God started to work on my understanding of who Mary is, though Jack Hayford does not accept all that Catholics believe about her perpetual virginity, etc. . . but he did go into her obedience and her example.

The experience was pretty dramatic. I don't remember having that exact same thing happen over a book before or since. . .


Sometimes God has to knock us over the head a good one I guess to get our attention! So I am not saying this experience was because somehow I merited it, but because I was too dense to hear the still small voice of God telling me to buy it . .


Peace in Him!

 

[BAChristian]

I have a tendancy to get chills when I write stuff about God...or when I am praying...

I have gotten chills during other times as well -- it seems to many to count...

 

[Acceptance]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I get it now.....BAchristian...like 'be a christian'

I'm not blonde I swear....okay, I am

LOL

 

[Photini]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I get it now.....BAchristian...like 'be a christian'

I'm not blonde I swear....okay, I am

LOL

heh heh...until I read your post I hadn't thought of that...I've been thinking of something totally different...so don't feel bad.

 

[DatingSmarts]

it could be that when you are in a meditative state your body goes into a state of deep relaxation....which causes a physiological response to lower the body temperature...ie your heart rate slows down, therefore bloodpumping slows down...also all the blood is rushing to the center of your body...and your skin feels cold as a result.

i notice that if I am stressed out and just think of jesus or say the name my body immediately relaxes and i can breathe better.

 

[Acceptance]

it could be that when you are in a meditative state your body goes into a state of deep relaxation....which causes a physiological response to lower the body temperature...ie your heart rate slows down, therefore bloodpumping slows down...also all the blood is rushing to the center of your body...and your skin feels cold as a result.

i notice that if I am stressed out and just think of jesus or say the name my body immediately relaxes and i can breathe better.

That's an interesting thought, that could very well be. -- Not that I'm looking for something natural to explain away what could be the supernatural, but I don't want to think of something being God if it's not...ya know

 

[thereselittleflower]

it could be that when you are in a meditative state your body goes into a state of deep relaxation....which causes a physiological response to lower the body temperature...ie your heart rate slows down, therefore bloodpumping slows down...also all the blood is rushing to the center of your body...and your skin feels cold as a result.

i notice that if I am stressed out and just think of jesus or say the name my body immediately relaxes and i can breathe better.

There can be that, but what I have described is not this at all. It is independent of a meditative state. I could share more but I am afraid to . .


Peace in Him!

 

[Acceptance]

Don't be afraid, I'd be very interested to hear it. My experience is usually outside of a meditative state too (unless I can somehow transition in and out of meditative states within a second). I think the most amazing thing I've ever experienced as far as being close to God was a dream I had.

I actually had two dreams, about a week apart. The first one my grandma who has been dead since 1998 was talking to me and I could hear her voice so clearly that it woke me up from a dead sleep at 4:00 in the morning and I literally expected her to be in the room with me (you know that brief moment after you wake up before the reality that she's dead sets in).

The next week I had a dream about God. He wasn't doing anything and He didn't say anything to me, but rather I just saw what we commonly see Jesus looking like in pictures, but it was such that a bright light was shining from behind his face so all I could see was a silouette; and the top of my vision in the dream was rippley (like a stone thrown into water) which in my dream I interpreted to be God touching it with his fingertip. When I woke up I was (oddly enough) very very afraid -- heart pounding, wanting to run to sleep with mommy, covers over my head, afraid. I can't explain why or what I was afraid of as nothing traumatic happened in the dream -- in fact nothing more than what I explained above happened in the dream. It was just the two of us existing together. Of course I was very cold and shivery when I woke up too.

 

[DatingSmarts]

i'm not denying that its god's presence. please don't think that. im just saying that this is an effect of prayer or meditation...that is how your body responds....others may respond differently.

 

[DatingSmarts]

You're definitely not alone. I get those all the time.

Also, when I am in deep prayer in my icon corner, I often get this wonderful stirring feeling that centers right under my heart. I think my soul is being illumined in those times.

this is what it is like for me when i pray