Mindfulness

[JimR-OCDS]

Maybe what I am doing is not even "Mindfulness".

I start with a prayer and then just follow the breathing. I usually pick a short pious invocation to go along with the breath. I also become aware of my body and send relaxing intention. I sit and call out to God silently within my mind. This usually helps me focus so that other thoughts begin to subside. Then moments of interior silence, just listening, begin to increase. It is then that I feel attentive to The Most High. Those moments of inner silence/stillness alternate with thoughts and images that present themselves. No problem, I just return to an invocation, breath and relaxation. Soon the stillness returns. This goes on for about half an hour.

So it is a way I relate to God who is beyond imagination and intellectual concepts. I am open to God as God wants to be with me. This has been my prayer for about 45 years now.

It is interesting you are discussing time because my perception of time changes.

What you are doing is what the Holy Spirit is guiding you to do.

We are how we pray and why everyone has different methods of prayer that they're attracted to.

Much of it has to do with personality types, but most of all, it is the Holy Spirit leading us to where
God can feed us best. Our job is merely to be open to God.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

The "heavenly hereafter" I look forward to as a Christian is eternal, but not infinite as God is, which is to say, having no beginning but always existing as a necessity of His own being.

I had a monk say at the conference he gave that eternity is linear and a human construct.

I had a hard time understanding this until I realized that all that exist is the now. That is the eternity that exist where God is.

 

[Joined2krist]

As a Catholic, contemplative prayer(catholic mindfulness) is not new. This is how we were taught to pray during visits to the Blessed sacrament.