Silently mindful

I am really aware of the psychological phenomena of mindfulness in recent times. It is used to bring clarity, stress reduction and develop more emotional intelligence to name a few things. In its simplest form mindfullness means to pay attention to the present moment, without judgement. What is happening right now! This means we become aware of our thoughts, emotions, feelings and actions.
This would seem to be a useful thing to do when practicing silence and in my case "the surrender method of meditation".

This means to surrender all thoughts during my silence back to God. As another thought pops into my head release it back to God. This hopefully brings a deeper revelation of God. As I said previously it is bringing a greater sense of peace into my day to day walk, with 5 minutes silence per day. One of the things of mindfulness is to focus on "the breath" -  breathing in, breathing out - from deep within the abdomen. I find this brings a sense of relaxation. I have no idea whether the two methods are intended to be combined but it works for me at the moment.

I like the concept of the breath which is brought in the form of the pneuma of the New Testament and ruach of the Old. They are both attached at one level or another to the concept of the Holy Spirit. Which to me opitomises the concept of breathing in the presence of God. This really appeals to me in all sorts of ways but especially in a meditation sense.


Still trying to work it out

Paul.