Brian Draper - Mindfulness: The Doorway to the Soul? (N128)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2016
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Mindfulness has exploded in popularity over recent years, with seemingly every other community centre, school, health service and therapist offering it. But what benefit, if any, does it offer the follower of Jesus? Author, speaker and retreat leader, Brian Draper, believes it has a vital role in Christian spirituality, but only as a doorway to something much deeper, embodied and life-giving.
“As we Practice stillness, as we discover more of the person, the assured, present person that God has created us to be, then we are better able to see the insecure, anxious chattering of the mind for what it is. And the mind slowly, gently, is transformed.” - Brian Draper
Interview starts at 8m 30s
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church. |
| 0:16.3 | Welcome back to Nomad podcast. |
| 0:19.3 | Apologies if we both sound a bit weary, but we suffered some heavy losses at the poker |
| 0:24.5 | table last night. |
| 0:28.1 | Oh, that was a tough game. |
| 0:29.7 | It was, won't it? |
| 0:30.5 | I had really bad cards all night, and then towards the end, I got a straight, and I thought, |
| 0:37.4 | surely this is my moment. I went all in. Everything went in. And then towards the end, I got a straight. And I thought, surely this is my moment. |
| 0:38.6 | I went all in. |
| 0:40.0 | Everything went in. |
| 0:41.3 | And then the last person to show their card's got a flush. |
| 0:43.7 | I know. |
| 0:44.8 | Lost it all. |
| 0:45.0 | That's the thing. |
| 0:46.0 | But actually, you didn't really want to win |
| 0:48.5 | because otherwise it went carrying on even later into the night. |
| 0:51.7 | It was worth losing the silver mist in the house just to sort of go home. |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah, three o'clock in the morning was kind of pushing it, wasn't it? |
| 0:58.7 | It sounds really bad, doesn't it? |
| 1:00.2 | It was a friend's birthday. |
| 1:02.3 | I think we all put one pound in, didn't we? |
| 1:05.3 | It was good night, though. |
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