Unfortunately, it is all too easy to listen to others telling you that the best way to relax and have peace is to meditate using various methods including mindfulness which seems very popular at the moment and a lot will recommend Yoga. The problem is that most of these meditation practices are derived from eastern religions and are not christian. They get us to adopt prayer positions relevant to eastern deities and we aren’t even aware of this as we do it. Mindfulness asks us to concentrate on breathing and empty our minds, but has its roots in Hinduism and Buddhism. If you want to follow these religions, then of course that is your choice but when you follow the God of Jesus Christ, you can’t pick and mix.
As a christian, I want to know that I am not doing anything that harms my relationship with God. He wants us to worship him only and rely on him for all that we may need. By using these eastern techniques, we are going outside of this and relying on other religions to help us.
We can call on God for whatever we need and he will answer, but if we turn to other sources, we are opening ourselves up to harm. These sources pretend to offer us peace, but it won’t bring us the peace and freedom we are ultimately seeking.
Think about this next time you see an invitation to a mindfulness course/session or yoga and do tell others who are christians and might not be aware of this.
God bless,
Colossians 3:15
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.
Widows Mote 