In this short interview, Speaker B shares a personal journey from a loosely spiritual, New Age‑influenced background to a committed Christian faith. After encountering Jesus, B began to evaluate previously embraced practices through the lens of Scripture. B demonstrates how breathwork, often seen as a New Age technique, aligns with biblical concepts such as the Spirit (Ruach) breathing creation in Genesis 1 and Jesus breathing the Holy Spirit onto his disciples after the resurrection. Similarly, the practice of gratitude, frequently presented in pop‑psychology as an anxiety‑reduction tool, is reclaimed by citing Philippians 4:6, which links prayer, supplication, and thanksgiving with divine peace. B also notes that modern counseling, therapy, and neuroscience intersect with biblical truths, concluding that these practices are ultimately part of God’s design rather than secular inventions. The conversation is conversational and enthusiastic, emphasizing a theological reclamation of popular self‑help methods.
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I was like, this woman is saying everything I'm trying to say. You just, you are speaking the truth. And so I'm really excited to share this with everybody today. Okay, so let's dive in. I would love to know, how did you even get into this work?
Yeah, well, there's, there's a roundabout story and then a really clear kind of moment. And so roundabout story was, I, before I really knew Jesus, I kind of knew who he was, but hadn't really committed my life. Life to him, um, I was kind of spiritual and open, you know, that kind of classic, I'm a spiritual person. And, um, I found myself finding, um, some real interest in New Age practices and things like that. And then when I met Jesus, I was really clear on what I was saying yes to and saying no to. So I really cut off a lot of those things. But actually, the more I read scripture, the more I found that actually a lot of things— like, let's take breathwork for example Um, can easily be seen as a New Age practice. But actually, as I read Scripture, right, I get even Genesis 1, and I'm looking at the Spirit of God, the Ruach of God, the breath of God hovering over the deep. I'm like, wow, God's always used breath to create order out of chaos. And then I look at how Jesus used breath to breathe on— he breathes on people after his crucifixion and resurrection. And just the powerful tool of breath. Obviously, when Jesus breathed on people, he was breathing the Holy Spirit on them. Um, And so that's utterly, utterly different than just, just breathwork. But I just found that there were these little, um, intersections. Even things like gratitude and the power of gratitude can kind of be seen as kind of maybe pop psychology and, you know, don't be anxious but be grateful. And I'm learning this stuff and I have an awareness of it, and then I read Philippians 4:8— no, sorry, Philippians 4:6— and think, Hold on, don't be anxious about anything. Instead, through prayer, supplication, and gratitude or thanksgiving, make your request known to God, and then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. And so there's, there's that kind of reclamation of stuff back from pop psychology and from even from New Age. And again, just finding so much of what I would read in Scripture would really intersect with what I was learning in the world of Um, counseling, therapy, neuroscience. And so it's just led me to the conclusion it's all God's idea. It's all his glorious design.
