Holy be the Lay: A Way to Mindfulness Through Christian Poetry

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dc.citation.issue2
dc.citation.volume7
dc.contributor.authorKempton HM
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-12T21:54:20Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T01:38:21Z
dc.date.available2022-03-11
dc.date.available2023-11-12T21:54:20Z
dc.date.available2023-11-20T01:38:21Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-11
dc.description.abstractMindfulness practices have exploded in popularity in public awareness and in therapeutic applications. While mindfulness in a therapeutic context is presented as a secular practice, its primarily Buddhist heritage may make some Christian clients wary of engaging. Research indicates that both reflection (co-creation) on poetry and creation of poetry can be therapeutic, and that both Buddhist and secular/therapeutic mindfulness texts use poetry to convey meaning through key themes of nature, change/impermanence, stages of practice, and acceptance. Taken together poetry offers a pathway to mindfulness, which in this article is applied to the Christian client. Examples are given of: how mindfulness-based practices are in accordance with Christian teachings (e.g., grace theology), that poetic practices already exist in Christian traditions (e.g., Lectio Divina and the Prayer of the Heart), and themes previously identified in Buddhist and secular/therapeutic mindfulness related poetry, are also present in Christian poetry. It is argued that poetry can provide an appropriate and palatable vehicle for introducing Christian clients to mindfulness, which allows for the individual’s spirituality to be harnessed as a mediator of the benefits of mindfulness practice.
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dc.edition.editionYoga and Mindfulness
dc.identifier.citationKempton H. (2022). Holy be the lay: A way to mindfulness through Christian poetry. OBM: Integrative and complimentary medicine. 7. 2.
dc.identifier.doi10.21926/obm.icm.2201011
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/69178
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherLIDSEN Publishing Inc
dc.relation.isPartOfOBM: Integrative and complimentary medicine
dc.rights(c) 2022 The Author
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleHoly be the Lay: A Way to Mindfulness Through Christian Poetry
dc.typeJournal article
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