18: Tom Rundel: Mental Health and Meditation Edition

Jul 16, 2023

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Today I asked many of you to submit your questions to me for an Ask Me Anything episode, and I was absolutely shocked at the amount of questions I received. I have four pages of your questions, and today I take on just one, but I do a deep dive into the world of mental health. While I am not a mental health expert, I have much work on the intersection of spirituality and mental health. So today we get very practical about how much of the Western Evangelical tradition does not equip us to handle things like trauma and stress, but instead increases it in many cases. So we take on the spiritual practice of meditation today, what happens physiologically and spiritually as we discuss Tim’s question:

“How do you view the confluence of spirituality and mental health? In other words, what have you learned about how to navigate difficult seasons from both a spiritual perspective and a mental health perspective?”

With a revisit and deep dive into Jason’s question:
Is there a difference between Christian meditation and meditation in other religions?

Time Stamps for the episode:

0:59: Introduction
2:57: Spirituality and Psychological Health
8:31: Self-Knowledge vs Self-Righteousness
14:36: Church only took me half way
19:50: Becoming Fully Human and Fully Alive
26:00: The Spirituality of the Nervous System
31:11: Evangelicalism stressed me out
36:44: The Spirituality of the Parasympathetic Nervous System
41:06: The Physiology of Meditation
46:05: The Unconscious Mind
51:06: 6 Forms of Christian Meditation: Lectio Divina, Visio Divina, Ignatian Exercises
56:36: 6 Forms of Christian Meditation: Centering Prayer, Mantra Prayer, Breath Prayer
1:00:18: Meditation of other faith traditions
1:02:11: Conclusions

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