"The practice of the Jesus Prayer is simple. Stand before the Lord with the attention in the heart, and call to Him: 'Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.' The essential part of this is not the words, but the faith, contrition, and self-surrender to the Lord. With these feelings one can stand before the Lord even without any words, and it will still be prayer."
"This short prayer to Jesus has a higher purpose�to deepen your remembrance of God and your feeling toward Him. These callings out of the soul to God are all too easily disrupted by the first incoming impression; and besides, in spite of these callings, thoughts continue to jostle in you head like mosquitoes. To stop this jostling, you must bind the mind with one thought, or the thought of One only. An aid to this is a short prayer, which helps the mind to become simple and united: It develops feeling towards God and is engrafted with it. When this feeling arises within us, the consciousness of the soul becomes established in God, and the soul begins to do everything according to His will. Together with the short prayer, you , must keep your thought and attention turned towards God. But if you limit your prayer to words only, you are a 'sounding brass' ".
"...Collect your thoughts from wandering everywhere, and with extreme unhurriedness, just aloud to yourself, enclosing the mind in the words, and from a contrite and humble heart, say the prayer: 'Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.' Having said the prayer, unhurriedly make a prostration*, with reverence and the fear of God, without excitement, with the feeling of a person repenting and asking for the forgiveness of his sins, as if your were at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Do not picture to yourself in your imagination the form or figure of the Lord, but have a conviction of His presence; have a conviction that He is looking at you., at your mind and heart, and that His reward is in His hand. The former is impermissible fancy, which leads to disastrous self-deception: but a conviction of the presence of the omni-present God is a conviction of a most holy truth. Having made the prostration, bring the body to reverence and calm again, and again say unhurriedly the above prayer; then make a prostration again in the way described above. Do not worry about the number of bows. Pay attention to the quality of your prayer performed with prostrations. Without speaking of the effect on the spirit, a small number of bows made in the way described above will have a much greater effect on the body itself than a large number made hurriedly, without attention.".
"Do not rush one prayer after another, but say them with orderly deliberation, as one would normally address a great person from whom one asked a favor. Yet do not just pay attention to the words, but rather let the mind be in the heart, standing before the Lord in full awareness of His presence, in full consciousness of His greatness and grace and justice... Act always in great humility .and with the utmost simplicity, not ascribing any success to yourself... Always see yourself as poor, naked, blind, and worthless."
*i.e. a full prostration, with the forehead touching the floor. Bishop Ignatius is here speaking of the performance of a monastic cell-rule, which often includes a cretain number of prostrations. However, the Jesus Prayer can also be said without prostrations.
**Information taken from sheet accompanying prayer ropes ordered from Light-n-Life Publishing.