I was wrong about meditation. · Blssed Influence

I was wrong about meditation.

Just to give some background:

I recently came much closer to Christ after years of being on Self-Improvement. I saw the abominations of the red-pill community, so I decided to leave and focus my best efforts on Christ.

I define meditation as "Mindfulness Meditation" which is focusing on your breath, trying to get rid of any thoughts that come to mind to maintain presence or "Mindfulness" throughout your regular life.

As I've learned more about Christianity, I learned that Christian's don't really participate in meditation. My argument FOR meditation was that if you're able to maintain presence, you're able to feel God's Spirit better than you otherwise would.

Scripture describes our relationship to God as in us moving closer or further from Him. God doesn't move, and I figured if you could be more mindful, then you can easier see your location, as in you'll move FASTER towards Him or realize you're moving away quicker.

"That sounds great! What's wrong about that?"

A few things.

Meditation dulls life like crazy. I'm a walking testimony of this, I've meditated 100s maybe even over 1000s hours over the past 4 years.

I don't really feel a lot. God calls us to put our worries and desires onto Him, but since I (talking about me just to give an example) can't do that very well, because I don't "feel" really anything. That WORSENS my relationship with Him, which goes against the entire point of me doing it.

Meditation made me happier when I started Self-Improvement because I had horrible mental health, which is why I promote it so much, but I'm coming to realize that meditation isn't something Christian's are called to do. In fact, it may be sin.

If you go back to the roots of meditation it's a Buddhist practice, which you can just say "Yeah but just ignore that part" (Like I did), but that's like doing Islamic rituals, but "ignoring" the Islam part.

Meditation IS Buddhism, and one of the commandments is something along the lines of "You shall have no other gods before Me" (I don't have them memorized yet). Buddhism doesn't really believe in a "God", but it's still worship something that takes you away from the pain of the world, which in turn takes you away from the pleasures.

Takeaway:

In the Bible, the word "Pondering" or "Ponder" is used a lot, which means "think about (something) carefully, especially before making a decision or reaching a conclusion."

This means THINKING, or "meditating" on God's Will, giving time dedicated to thinking of God and His words.

So instead of Mindfulness Meditation, my current understanding is to Ponder instead.

Let me know what you think, am I closer this time? I make these posts trying to inform and teach because I believe it is part of my purpose. However, I've been humbled in learning I don't know much about much 😅, so instead of "Lesson" I put "Takeaway", because I've always been a teacher when it comes to Self-Improvement, just not Christ-Improvement. I would hate making a post that doesn't teach someone something, because that's just a pure waste of your time in 95% of cases.

I pray all of you have a fantastic day, and I ask you (If you don't feel like reading that long post), what are your thoughts on fasting? Right now I'm doing 24 hours starting this morning, when usually I do around 8-12 hours before I crack down and eat everything (fasting is also part of Self-Improvement, just with the wrong message and meaning).

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