By Heather Clark
Christian News Network
The footwear and apparel corporation Nike has partnered with the mindfulness and meditation app Headspace, introducing the practices to runners worldwide with the goal of boosting athletic focus and performance. However, the president of an organization that focuses on concerns in the sports world from a Christian perspective says that the development is troublesome and presents a false duplicate for the things of God.
According to reports, Nike has been offering audio-guided runs for some time, but most recently decided to work together with Headspace so that users of its Nike+ Run Club app can now listen to a mindfulness and meditation guide as they pound the pavement.
Headspace was co-founded by Andy Puddicombe, who, according to the group’s website, was ordained in India as a Tibetan Buddhist monk after spending years studying meditation. Click here to continue reading.
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Sadly, this is not unprecedented. I remember that way back in the 1980s (even the ’70s), big corporations were using Est techniques to “help” their employees be more mindful, successful, etc. The main difference I see now is that people are less aware that these things are religious cults — in particular, Christians don’t seem to be nearly as spiritually aware as they were then. There has been a huge change in Christians and churches, in general, since then, which has resulted in Christians becoming much more vulnerable to false teachings. As we all know only too well.