Mindfulness Practice The Lure of Divine Loving Healing
Healing Agency of the Creative Process of All Life A Narrative Poetic Revision
by Rev. Dr. Edgar W. Hennig

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In the Great River of Mindfulness Practice today, there are many tributaries which flow in and out of the River: self-help for calmness and peace; curricula bringing health and wholeness to institutions of healthcare, addiction recovery, and incarceration rehabilitation; private practice of well-trained and certified mindfulness practitioners; schools and churches offering classes that make a difference in the lives of the participants for personal well-being, community justice, and ecological concern; solid research indicating which parts of the brain of mindfulness practitioners produce well-being and immunity from dis-ease of body, mind, and soul. This book is one of the tributaries flowing in and out of the River with its unique contribution to mindfulness practice. It is to demonstrate how mindfulness practice, in producing all the above, is organically a healing agent of the creation process of all life. This it does in integrating the process thought of the renown twentieth century mathematician, philosopher, and metaphysician, Alfred North Whitehead, with the guidance of three prominent mindfulness practitioners, three articulate theologians, and a highly recognized sociologist of religion. The key phrase of this tributary is the lure of divine loving. The author finds narrative poetry as the best medium of this tributary in luring the reader in joining him in a mindfulness practice that is the lure of divine loving—healing agent of the creative process of all life.

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With four academic degrees, D. Min. Ed Hennig is an ordained minister, retired teacher, and certified supervisor of chaplains and pastoral counselors, and has served in these capacities in eleven different states for over forty years. Since retiring in 2015, he has become a mindfulness practitioner, and is presently taking advanced classes in mindfulness practice from a certified mindfulness-practice teacher, and offering mindfulness-practice classes in his local church. Ed has offered spiritual direction to his chaplain and pastoral-counseling students down through the years, and has published a number of articles relating to a variety of subjects, in a variety of publications, starting in 1984. His hobbies include writing narrative poetry; writing lyrics to well-known tunes, which he sings while accompanying himself on the guitar; and surf fishing. He currently lives In Katy, Texas (a suburb of Houston), with his wife, Margaret (Peggy) L. Hennig, who is a board-certified hospital chaplain, and their cat Bitzie, who is nine years old. The couple have five grown children, eleven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. lureofmindfulmetta@gmail.com

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