Join Dan Burke and Melissa Elson as they address the problem with the current trend of practicing mindfulness, from both a spiritual and scientific perspective.

Topics/Questions covered in the show:

• Is there a Catholic version of mindfulness?
• Can you find true peace through mindfulness? 
• How can there be false peace?
• Who is Jon Kabat-Zinn?
• How is the modern understanding of mindfulness deceptive?
• Is there any truth to Buddhism? 
• If one claims that the practice of mindfulness is helpful, why should he or she avoid it? 

Resources:

• Spiritualdirection.com - website
• EWTN Global Catholic Radio
• Avila Institute for Spiritual Formation
• EWTN Religious Catalogue - online
• A Catholic Guide to Mindfulness by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
• Nostra Aetate Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions by Pope Paul VI
• Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
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