Christian mindfulness practice can help you get to the heart and soul of your practice. When we are burned out, we often feel numb, overwhelming stress, detachment, and loss of purpose and concentration. Unaddressed, burnout can lead to increased anxiety or even depression.

Christian mindfulness helps us re-center our thoughts and experience of life in the larger purpose that God has for you. As divine image-bearers, we already have purpose, we can exercise our agency and freedom to work, live and move in the world with dignity.

Three ways that mindfulness can help with burnout. We grow in peace in therapy when we can take what we have learned and practiced into our every day lives. There is direction and flow when we begin to address our nervous system and regulate our emotions with somatic practices such as mindfulness.

Walking meditation is a way for you to build mindfulness skills. As you take steps, it is a journey of growth therapy. Therapy that takes you into nature helps regulate your body and prepares your mind for the work of therapy. It is a type of somatic therapy and helps your memory stores in your brain. We can come back to the images you see and sensory inputs to help bring you back to a peaceful state.

Walking meditation is a relaxing mindfulness skill that can help you re-process memories, make meaning of your experience. Used therapeutically, it can help you move away from just needing to sit. Our bodies are meant to work in concert with our thoughts and emotions. We use mindful walking in concert with the work we have done, whether to prepare for session, or debrief, walking in mindfulness can help you get out of your head and into your soul and heart.