Nobody thinks about God 100% of the time, not even you. Every single one of us, including you, thinks about a wide variety of stuff through the day. For some people, meditation is a good way to clear their mind of the trivial busy work of the day. After clearing one’s mind of all the daily stuff, one can then more easily get focused back on God.
Nobody thinks about God 100% of the time, not even you. Every single one of us, including you, thinks about a wide variety of stuff through the day. For some people, meditation is a good way to clear their mind of the trivial busy work of the day. After clearing one’s mind of all the daily stuff, one can then more easily get focused back on God.
That is quite the non sequitor
I have certainly never even attempted to empty my mind as you put it - not while doing those stretches or anything else. One thing I am doing is focusing on positioning my body correctly and maintaining the pose for a decent length of time.
Do a google search on ‘Praise Moves’
Wikipedia:
I read my sources well.
The Church does not oppose secular yoga, which is exercise. It is simply a type of stretching. Saying that it is synonymous with stretching is to ignore that secular yoga is a very, very particular type of stretching.
I guess that is the disagreement. Yoga does have a spiritual end in more than one way. See article attached. Fr. Pacwa repeated several things in this article on his radio show including that a core philosophy of yoga was the belief in reincarnation. Now I am not saying that those practicing yoga are knowledgable of this and would intentionally be be misled but the danger is there. I can meditate and relax in so many other ways without getting into something that is a controversy. An hour in adoration does in every time. Interestingly too, I’ve never thought of having to clear my mind in order to relax. I do need time alone though at times, in prayer, reading, exercising, a simple hobby etc. A nice hot bath with some music playing does it too.
so if your not streching your worshiping the sun
This sounds like superstition to me. How can we open up to energies in the universe by standing in a particular way? If my bottom is sticking out am I really worshipping something? Or if I’m holding my arms streched out? This sounds completely nonsensical to me. Can these so-called ‘energies’ really be manipulated in such a way? All exercise makes us feel good: there is a flow in the body, there is a sense of being more awake, stronger, healthy, etc. Is running and streching on the floor ultimately not the same thing? It is just physical activity
And even if people believe that standing in a particular posture has a spiritual aim, does it actually mean that something spiritual is taking place? Just because I’m kneeling doesn’t mean I’m necessarily praying. Right?if you kneeling in a church or you exercising or pryaing, maybe simple exercising but it would be unusual and certainly not the impression you would be giving others, some might jump to silly conclusions you are worshiping God.This sounds like superstition to me. How can we open up to energies in the universe by standing in a particular way? If my bottom is sticking out am I really worshipping something? Or if I’m holding my arms streched out? This sounds completely nonsensical to me. Can these so-called ‘energies’ really be manipulated in such a way? All exercise makes us feel good: there is a flow in the body, there is a sense of being more awake, stronger, healthy, etc. Is running and streching on the floor ultimately not the same thing? It is just physical activity
Trust me, I’ve spent a lot of time kneeling but not really praying. To do lists, thinking of this or that,…
the point i was making is that kneeling is kneeling sometimes its praying somtimes its not.
It looks like you’re the one who believes in sun gods since you think yoga has anything to do with any such mythology.
I can’t say I understood the point of reading the attached article. Who is the author and what is her level of expertise on the subject? Where are her sources? I can’t really believe her based on her word alone. Anyone can write anything they want on the internet. It doesn’t make it accurate.
If you’re talking about the article previously mentioned on this thread, then he did no such thing. He spoke personally of yoga and of his personal experience with it, not of its core philosophies. Regardless, however great Fr. Pacwa is, he, like the other lady, is not an expert on yoga.
Sure you can. But no other routines as of yet are known to provide as effective a stretching routine as yoga does. Other than one neck exercise increasing the chance of blood clots in your corrotid arteries, no negitive health effects are really known about it. In addition, I did several of the stretches for years playing soccer, not only not knowing that it was a yoga position I was doing, but actually not even as of yet having heard of yoga before. The point is that yoga positions have been used in America really for centuries and if you stretch regularly, I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that you unknowingly do yoga poses yourself.
Good for you. That’s you, though, not me or anyone else.An hour in adoration does in every time. Interestingly too, I’ve never thought of having to clear my mind in order to relax. I do need time alone though at times, in prayer, reading, exercising, a simple hobby etc. A nice hot bath with some music playing does it too.
First Peace in Christ! Do you want me to forward other links on yoga that speak to it in the same light? This is easily done but I’m traveling over the next 24 hours. Until then, can you refer me to a credible website that is “Accurate” on yoga that contradicts my point?
that doesn’t even make sense and seeing the thread is about okay for catholics to practice yoga and you beleive God is a myth, makes your posts fairly irrelevant
If you’re going to falsely put words in my mouth, could you at least use proper English grammar?
uch:Please read the following guide to proper English grammar.
What? No. If you are not stretching you could be eating, sleeping, working, and so forth. If you are practicing yoga without the spirituality, you are not worshiping the sun.
So? The opinions of the Hindus do not alter reality. First, whether any group desires it or not, it is happening. Second, if you seriously wish to put forward this argument, then you admit that it has been debased and commercialized and rendered separate from its spirituality.
Neither does using porcelain toilets, and yet here we are…
Religious/spiritual yoga sounds very unchristian. Fortunately, we are not speaking about that, but about secular yoga.
No one is advocating worshiping anything other than God.
You actually are not. Maybe to those who are ignorant of what yoga is, but anything is problematic to someone. When I see someone doing yoga, I know they are doing yoga. That is all.