The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air

Angela Montano
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Prayer is an instinct to reach beyond the perceptions that cause us to suffer. In this podcast, Angela Montano invites listeners to allow prayer to renew the mind and open the heart.

  1. Jun 22

    #173: What If You Didn't Add Another Thought?

    What happens when fear arises—and we don't add another thought? In this episode of The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air, Angela reflects on a recent experience with Eckhart Tolle and explores a form of prayer that requires no words at all. When we are disturbed, the mind quickly begins constructing a story. It adds meaning, prediction, judgment, and fear. But what if prayer is not about fixing the experience or escaping it? What if prayer is the willingness to remain present with it? Angela explores the distinction between what Eckhart Tolle calls the pain body and the deeper Presence beneath it, the inner body, or what some traditions call the subtle body.  She shares how silent prayer can become an intensification of Presence—a direct encounter with the peace that exists before thought, beneath thought, and beyond thought. Together we explore fear, reactivity, the healing power of the pause, and the surprising freedom that becomes available when we stop resisting what we feel. Fear tells us something is missing. Love tells us we already have what we need. This conversation is an invitation to bring the light of awareness to whatever is arising and discover that peace may be much closer than the mind would have us believe. ––– Join Angela Montano, Mark Anthony Lord, and other teachers for a six-week online experience exploring prayer as a living, transformative practice beginning July 7, 2026. If you're feeling called to deepen your relationship with prayer in a real, grounded, and transformational way, learn more here: https://markanthonylord.me/project-prayer/?am_id=angela ––– About Prayer on the Air The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air is a live weekly gathering where people from more than 75 countries come together to pray, reflect, and remember the presence of love at the center of all things. We welcome you to join us live each Monday Angela records live. Register at https://angelamontano.com/podcast to receive the Zoom link.

    1h 5m

  2. Jun 16

    #172: Living From the Intelligence of the Heart

    How do we honor what we're feeling without becoming identified with it? In this Prayer on the Air gathering, Angela explores how prayer creates space between ourselves and whatever we are experiencing. As she questions the familiar belief, "I alone must," she invites us to consider whether we are truly doing life by ourselves at all, or whether we are being guided, supported, and carried by the intelligence of the heart.  Together, we explore what it means to live from the heart rather than the fears and demands of the mind. Through prayer and conversation, Angela reflects on ‘control’ versus obedience to inner wisdom, the healing power of compassion, and how our struggles begin to soften when we see them as experiences we are having rather than truths about who we are.  Topics include: Honoring feelings without identifying with themPrayer as a practice of spaciousness and renewalThe illusion of control and trusting inner guidanceCompassion for ourselves and othersRecognizing the "narcissist" in all of us without shameLiving from love instead of fearWhen we pause, become still, and listen deeply, we discover that the heart already knows the way. ### Join Angela and other teachers in exploring prayer as a living, transformative practice through Project Prayer, a 6-week online experience led by her friend and fellow minister, Mark Anthony Lord. First session July 7. Learn more and register here.

    59 min

  3. Jun 8

    #171: What If This Moment Didn't Need Fixing?

    What if peace isn't found in changing your life, but in changing your relationship to this moment? So many of us move through life evaluating everything: I'm okay. I'm not okay. This is working. This isn't working. I'm ahead. I'm behind. Without even realizing it, we can spend enormous amounts of energy deciding whether life is going well or badly. In this episode of Prayer on the Air, we explore a simple but profound question: What if this moment didn't need fixing? Together, we'll look at what becomes possible when we stop judging every experience and begin meeting life with greater curiosity, compassion, and presence. In this episode, you'll discover: Why the constant habit of evaluating ourselves can be so exhaustingThe difference between your life and your judgment of your lifeHow unhappiness changes when we stop resisting itThe shift from "me-ness" to "here-ness"A simple practice for making peace with what isRather than asking: "How do I fix this?" What if we asked: "What is here?" And what if we could meet whatever we find with awareness instead of judgment? May this conversation support you in laying down the inner scorecard and discovering the peace that is always available.

    57 min

  4. May 18

    #170: Groundlessness, Grace & The Next Right Thing

    In this deeply moving episode of The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air, we explore what it means to live without false certainty and to trust love beneath changing circumstances. Reflecting on motherhood, illness, financial fear, control, and the Buddhist concept of “groundlessness,” Angela invites listeners into a different kind of stability: not control, but presence. Through live prayer requests, this episode becomes a meditation on releasing the ego’s demand for predictability and learning to trust the next right thing. Together, we explore: The healing of separation and fearWhy “life situation” and “life itself” are not the sameThe spiritual practice of agreeing with what isMotherhood, enmeshment, and letting goTrusting divine support during uncertaintyPrayer as instinct, presence, and participation in love This episode includes prayers for: A mother learning to trust her adult son’s journeyA veteran facing financial uncertainty and bureaucratic stressA woman navigating breast cancer, job loss, and surrender“Fearlessness is the order of the day.”

    1h 1m

  5. May 4

    #169: The Friendliness of the Unknown

    In this episode of The Angela Montano Hour: Prayer on the Air, we are invited to experience a powerful shift in how we relate to life: What if the unknown is not something to fear… but something friendly? So much of our tension comes from preconceived notions—ideas about how things should unfold, what should happen next, and how we need to “handle” it all. But what happens when we let those ideas soften? Through live prayer and reflection, this episode explores: Releasing preconceived notions and expectationsLetting go of the identity of being the one who must “handle everything”Opening to a deeper trust in the intelligence of lifeLiving in the balance of being relaxed and alert A simple but profound reframe emerges: What if you are not the one doing life… but life is doing you? Through real prayer requests, we also explore: Moving from overwhelm into receptivityTrusting support even in the midst of responsibilityExperiencing love as something whole and complete—without needing to possess or act on it This episode is an invitation to soften your grip on how things should go… and discover a deeper sense of support, presence, and unconditional okayness already here.

    57 min

  6. Apr 28

    #168: Who’s Right? Who’s Wrong? What If Everyone Is Innocent?

    In this episode of Prayer on the Air, Angela explores a question that quietly shapes so many of our relationships: Who’s right… and who’s wrong? Through a live prayer request around family tension, we look at how deeply our need to belong is tied to choosing sides—and how exhausting that can become. But what if there’s another way? As the conversation unfolds, a powerful shift emerges: What if everyone is innocent? Not as a way to dismiss pain, but as a way to see beyond conditioning, beyond blame, and into a deeper truth that allows for real healing. Along the way, a participant introduces the idea of a “prayer reservoir”—a reminder that you are already supported by the prayers you’ve spoken, the ones still unfolding, and even the ones others have spoken for you. In this episode, we explore: The freedom of not taking sides The connection between belonging and being “right” The idea of a prayer reservoir you can draw from at any time This is an invitation to step out of the cycle of blame… and into a deeper experience of peace, connection, and trust. What if you don’t have to decide who’s right… to feel at peace?

    53 min

  7. Apr 13

    #167: God Is All There Is (A Simple Practice That Changes Everything)

    In this episode of Prayer on the Air, Angela Montano introduces a simple yet profound spiritual practice — a mantra that gently guides us back to truth: “God is all there is. God is all there. God is all. God is. God.” By slowly releasing each word, we’re invited to move beyond the noise of the mind and into a deeper awareness of presence, trust, and surrender. From there, Angela shares a deeply human moment — a small interaction with a neighbor that turns into a powerful reflection on control, ego, and the need to be right. What seems insignificant becomes a doorway into something much bigger. ✨ “Who would you be without your story of struggle?” — Angela Montano Through prayer, conversation, and community, this episode explores the shift from struggle to ease — and what it means to trust a greater intelligence already at work in our lives. This episode is a reminder that: We don’t have to figure everything outWe are not meant to carry everything aloneEase is always available, even when we can’t see it

    53 min

  8. Apr 6

    #166: Let the Faith Keep You When You Feel Lost, Don’t Let Go

    In this episode of Prayer on the Air, Angela Montano returns to a simple yet powerful reminder: You don’t always have to be the one holding everything together. Sometimes… you are the one being held. Through reflection, prayer, and honest conversation, this episode explores what it means to let faith carry you — especially in moments of uncertainty, emotional overwhelm, or when life feels like too much. Together, we reflect on:– The pressure of trying to control everything– The exhaustion of always “figuring it out”– Letting go without giving up– Trusting what you cannot yet see– Allowing faith to hold you when you can’t hold yourself This is an invitation to soften your grip. To stop forcing clarity. And to remember that you are not alone in what you’re carrying. Maybe you don’t need to push harder. Maybe you just need to let the faith keep you.

    47 min
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Prayer is an instinct to reach beyond the perceptions that cause us to suffer. In this podcast, Angela Montano invites listeners to allow prayer to renew the mind and open the heart.

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