The Danger of Mindfulness Meditation

Here is another instance where wording is important, as mindfulness has different meanings. People will advise others to be mindful, and I have used the word myself. On those occasions, it simply means to be aware or to pay attention. However, there is a much darker meaning of the word.

Believers in sand-to-psychologist evolution generally shun religion, especially Christianity. Most believe in scientism, a de-facto religion — even if they do not realize it. Many secularists practice mindfulness believing it to be a scientifically-based meditation technique. Bad idea.

Meditation, Pixabay / Gerd Altmann (Geralt)

Although most evolutionists deny it, their belief system can be traced back to ancient pagan religious views. Indeed, we have seen pantheism and animism tacitly invoked in scientific reports. There is no single view of psychology, and there are numerous schools of thought. Why? None of them have the answers! Evolutionary thinking is a big part of psychology, including evolutionary psychology itself.

After major heart surgery and the sudden loss of my beloved wife just a few weeks later, I was in bad shape (I even contemplated going to join her by my own hand.) People advised me to see a therapist. Though I was getting help from a hospice counselor, I was reluctant to deal with a psychologist. I did it for a spell with video phone calls, but was not comfortable. At the end of my last session, meditation was on the agenda. That's not good, and the psychologists should have known about the dangers. I was done.

If you study on it, people meditate in different ways all the time. We think about the objects of our interest or concern, whether it is getting money, a love interest, an important item that needs to be dealt with, and more. Deeper, targeted meditation, including Eastern meditation on "nothing" as well as mindfulness can be mentally and spiritually dangerous. It may come as a shock, but this is an occult practice, and doing occult things opens doors to demonic influences. Meditation can be a good thing if it is done the right way: With the proper subject.

You probably did not expect to read psychology, science, and occult in the same post.

The mindfulness meditation seems scientific, is recommended by psychologists, and is even taught in schools. However, mindfulness has negative consequences — including psychosis. It is actually an ancient Eastern technique. Some people have benefitted from meditation, but adverse effects are known even in Buddhist literature. I must repeat, serious meditation needs to have the proper subject, the Word of our Creator, as its focus.

You’ll never find secular science journals praising the benefits of meditating on God’s Word, the Bible. Science is supposed to be separate from religion, right? But you will frequently find science articles and papers advocating the benefits of “mindfulness” as a therapy for reducing anxiety and depression (e.g., 8 April 2023). What they usually don’t tell you is that mindfulness is an ancient Buddhist practice and that it can be dangerous.

Mindfulness means focusing your attention on what your body is doing: your beating heart, your breathing, the positions of your arms and legs and the like. CEH has encountered many pro-mindfulness articles at science news sites over the years, and some in peer-reviewed journals. But once in awhile, a psychologist will come out and warn that it can be harmful, based on clinical reports in the literature of people whose mental health was made worse by trying it.

I urge you to read the rest of this article by visiting "Beware of Mindfulness."