Godfulness: Mindfulness for Christians
If we study the lessons that mindfulness provides us from a Christian perspective, we begin to tap into the rich tradition of being aware of God at all times, of finding God in all things. Godfulness is a podcast that helps people to find that their lives are full of God and to find how that fills them with peace.
Episodes
32 episodes
Last Episode
Why is it important to embrace Godfulness in our lives? Godfulness allows us to be aware of God and live the life God wants us to live--a life with broad horizons and a glorious destiny.
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15:30
Putting It All Together
On this, the second to the last episode, we focus on paying attention to how the Lord surrounds us and how the Lord is deep within us. By living both of these realities, we can be more aware of God during our day.
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16:28
A Healthy Spiritual Life That Supports Godfulness
As we continue to review the past episodes of the podcast, we highlight three spiritual practices that we have presented in previous podcasts. They are very helpful for us to have a healthy spiritual life where mindfulness of God is possi...
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17:39
Two Techniques That Help Us
As we move towards the end of the podcast, this episode reinforces what we have seen before. It encourages us to choose a technique that is helpful to stay aware of God during our day.
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16:41
Blessing, Sensing, Reveling and Offering
To maintain an awareness of God as we go through our day, four activities are very helpful.
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17:07
Our Lives Are Holy
Since our lives are made up of activities for the good of others and ourselves, of blessings and of potential encounters with God, our lives offer us a real chance at holiness.
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16:49
How Easy It Is to Fulfill God's Will
Tp be aware that we are doing God's will during our everyday lives allows us to discover how close God is to us. The wisdom of De Caussade helps us to see how we can know that we do God's will and to rejoice in that all day long.
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17:47
In For The Long Haul
Why do we seek Godfulness, a mindfulness and awareness of God throughout our day? In this episode, we review the temptations to stop and, then, we re-dedicate ourselves to pursuing a life where being aware of God is important. ...
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16:28
Look to the Future! God is Waiting for You!
In this last episode dedicated to the different sections of the Examen, we look at how looking to the near future can prepare us to be aware of the ways God will come to us then.
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14:44
Reinforcing Our Awareness of God
In the fourth part of the Examen, as we look back over our day, we pray in gratitude and repentance to the Lord. This prayer helps us to live out the next day with greater awareness of the ways that God comes to us.
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17:54
Reviewing a Day with God's Help
In this episode we show how we can become very aware of God's activity in our lives if we work with God to review the last few hours of our day, With the Lord guiding us, we will find ways that we did not that the Lord was acting in our l...
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16:30
Deepening Awareness of God
Through the Examen and the conscious decision to find God more in our days, we are able to be more grateful to God and more sensitive to the ways God is active in our days. We thus can respond to God better each day.
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16:39
The Examen: a Great Help for Godfulness
There is an ancient practice of looking back over our day to find the trace of God's activity.. We introduce it here and talk about how it can help to highlight for us the consolation that God is offering us every day.
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16:46
A Quiet Sign of Awareness of God
In this episode, the use of a technique we've talked about before is shown to be helpful in both daily life and quiet prayer. One sign of its effectiveness is the sense of physical relaxation that pervades us as we focus on being aw...
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A Time of Quiet Awareness of God
The second method to quiet the racing mind and staying more aware of God close to us during our days is to take 15 or 20 minutes everyday to pray deeply and quietly. Some methods that might be useful can be found at this link:
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16:37
Savor Your Day
Our minds race from one thing to the next during our days, thus leading us to believe that the fulfillment of our happiness is in the next thing to do or to think or to experience. We need some way to slow our minds down and be more aware of th...
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17:30
A Word that Blesses
if we use a word or phrase steadily through the day, we become ready to face difficulties and also to recognize and be grateful for blessings that happen during our daily lives.
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16:40
A Word to Help
One very ancient technique is to use a word or phrase to turn our attention away from the thoughts or temptations that can bedevil us.
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17:03
Turning Away From and Turning Towards
As we use our watchfulness or vigilance (nepsis) we gently replace thoughts that lead us from awareness of God to thoughts that are rooted in gratitude to God for the blessings we have from God.
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18:13
Watchfulness
We introduce the term "nepsis" from Greek Orthodoxy to present a way to allow us to reject almost immediately thoughts or images that lead us away from God and to welcome thoughts and images that lead us to God.
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17:27
Everyday Life Consolation
This episode concentrates on finding consolation throughout our day by using the everyday blessings and interactions as ways of finding God's love and God's challenge to love more.
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16:06
Consolation: Turning to God
We look at the definition of consolation and how it can help us to stay aware of God's goodness in our lives. We see how we can use simple truths of our faith to recall the goodness and presence of God.
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16:35
Speaking to God and Acting for God
When we find ourselves troubled or uninspired during our day, two strategies can help us to encounter the presence of God again: speaking to God honestly and offering what we are doing to God. These simple actions can renew our awareness ...
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15:48