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- Title
Contemporary Mindfulness and the Psychospiritual Model of Stillness in the Philokalia.
- Authors
Zolner, Theresa
- Abstract
Mindfulness, integral to ancient Christian spirituality, has in recent decades been secularized and incorporated into contemporary psychotherapies and mental health practice. Yet the Christian approach to mindfulness, grounded in remembrance of God and Christian formation, has quite different goals for patients than secular mindfulness practices. This paper explores the similarities and differences between secular mindfulness, as concretized in the therapeutic model known as Emotion Efficacy Therapy (EET), and spiritual mindfulness expressed in the ancient Christian psychospiritual model described in several texts of the Philokalia. This analysis illuminates the limitations of decontextualizing mindfulness from its spiritual and religious origins, including in the lack of formation in many clients and the absence of a realistic moral framework against which clients can mindfully evaluate their thoughts and experiences. Yet, when properly integrated into Christian spirituality and asceticism, mindfulness can lead to the proper integration and healing of the whole person.
- Subjects
MINDFULNESS; MENTAL health &; religion; CATHOLIC asceticism; CHRISTIANITY
- Publication
Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 2019, Vol 60, Issue 1-4, p63
- ISSN
0024-5895
- Publication type
Article