Tim Stead

Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality (eBook, ePUB)

Making Space for God

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

May I be safe and protected. May I be at peace in mind and body. May I live with ease and kindness. (Kindness practice, p. 120)

We can all engage with such longings and wish these good things for the people we love. Mindfulness practice is hugely popular these days! But what, Tim Stead asks, does it have to offer Christianity? How might it help us to transform the way we manage stress and open up more completely to the promised 'life in all its fullness'?

Key is the definition of mindfulness as being more fully aware of our own experience in the present moment in a non-judgmental way. The author finds that 'distractions';, so often the bane of those trying to pray, can be taken note of without our being caught up in or taken over by them. A non-judgemental approach seems entirely consistent with talk of grace, and as Christians we know we can only ever experience God in the present moment. Tim reflects: 'If I feel loved entirely without judgment, I will gradually dare to allow every aspect of myself to come into the light of God's gaze and so into relationship with the rest of myself and this is how healing comes.'

'You can read this book in a day, but take it to heart and it will last a lifetime.' - Professor Mark Williams, from the Foreward

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SPCK
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780281074877
• Artikelnr.: 44713484

Autorenporträt

Tim Steadhas been an ordained Anglican priest for 20 years and is currently Vicar of Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry, Oxford. He is an accredited mindfulness teacher with the Oxford Mindfulness Centre and teaches their eight-week MBCT course as well as running mindfulness courses and retreats in the parish and for clergy in the diocese.