This caused my head to spin around, so you may be on to something.
Posted on 06/20/2022 6:08:00 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
According to Mattel: “This meditation-themed doll celebrates one of her favorite ways to recharge using lights and sound — mindfulness meditation. The set comes with a Barbie doll, a puppy and four cloud emojis. Kids simply press the button in Barbie doll’s necklace to activate one of five guided meditation exercises that use light and sound effects to inspire their own practice.
“Her puppy helps her visualize — insert one of the cloud emojis into its head to represent a meditative thought bubble, then switch it up for new meditation inspiration. The puppy helps Barbie doll focus with visualization: place one of the four cloud emojis — Love Rainbow, Sad Rain, Happy Sunshine or Grumpy Red — into its head to express an emotion; switch them up to express a new feeling.”
But Yasmeen Suri warns: “Satan always comes as appearing innocent. He will never come with horns and a pitchfork. This Barbie has five guided meditations. Remember, Yoga is Hinduism,” Suri wrote in the May 3 Facebook post. “You cannot separate the poses from the religion. Each pose is designed to invoke a Hindu deity in the spirit realm. I have seen children get possessed by demons.” The guided meditations are also problematic for a variety of reasons, according to Suri…
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I don’t stretch (yoga) but I briefly meditate every morning. I close my eyes, take slow abdominal breaths, and mentally recite Habakkuk 2:20 - “The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.” In addition to any spiritual benefits it is a healthy, non-medicinal way to activate the parasympathetic nervous system.
This caused my head to spin around, so you may be on to something.
I agree with you.
I tried at one point to defend Christian Yoga in Bible Study! My pastor took my ignorance and helped me see that I was introducing my spirit, soul and body to a god that is not Yahweh.
Some christian churches and programs will poo-poo the idea but I prefer to take the narrow road on this. I did daily Bible devotionals and did yoga for a month. Was fired from my job! Many I know have nice bodies but they have needed hip, knee, shoulder, etc. replacements and back surgeries doing yoga...and frankly, they are missing fruit of The Holy Spirit in their lives.
You worry about yoga but not about the alter of penis which most main stream conservative churches worship to. These types of churches go after everything except their own lust and sex abuse, which either gets buried or blamed on women. Jesus has been replaced by the lusting adulterous male types and these men are pampered because ‘god made them that way” bs mantra and women are told its their fault because they don’t give enough or look good enough for their husbands. To hell with the American churches today. They’ve fallen into apostasy and should be destroyed.
Cuban leaf, I appreciate your posts and wisdom and agree with much that you post here. But not this one.
Intentions are important, but what matters is what you actually do.
Intentions are important, but what matters is what you actually do.
Thank you for this post.
People think yoga can be separated from the religious aspect and that it’s harmless. It’s not.
I am always surprised with how defensive professing Christians can become when someone criticizes yoga.
I hear that Hindus also breathe air and drink water! Avoid all Hindu practices!
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. —Psalm 19:14
The Barbie guides a "mindfullness meditation", not yoga. Mindfullness meditation has no religious connotation at all, not even Hinduism. It is an exercise to focus on your mental processes.
I'm not even going to address the Yoga=Hundism=Satan nonsense.
I love Christmas trees. Weren’t they originally some sort of pagan thing? But I don’t use them that way and neither do other Christians.
I do understand that attempting to “empty your mind” in meditation is a non-Judeo Christian risk bc God is the Creator. If you try to achieve a mental vacuum, you take out anything and every thing that is of God. So there is nothing Good left and plenty of empty space for the complete absence of good to come in and get settled.
So, why couldn’t I use the stretches and breathing, if I employ Christian prayer while I do it? If I offer this time and activity to God, why should there still be a risk? (Note: I don’t actually do yoga moves or meditation currently. I do my own stretches and Christian prayers, such as the Lord’s Prayer).
If you are afraid, pray the Lorica.
Good suggestion.
“And I don’t know what all the “yoga” stuff is about.“
You have to watch out for the calories in it.
I like the Greek kind, it has only 90 calories and probiotics .
Other varieties have 200 calories.
First of all, I don’t practice yoga. I do meditate occasionally; I would benefit from doing it more but it’s hard to carve out the time.
Yoga doesn’t even have anything to do with this. The Barbie doll is about meditation, which isn’t the same thing. (I don’t believe I’m actually bothering to defend Barbie dolls here, but oh well.)
Etymologically, yoga comes from “union with God” (translations from Sanskrit may refer to the Supreme Spirit or something like that, because the translators are aiming at that exotic feel, but it certainly doesn’t refer to a demon or evil spirit).
Back to meditation, which is what this is really about: Meditation is simply using repetition and mental focus to achieve calmness and to put your mind in a more spiritual state (what people sometimes call “mindfulness” these days, but that’s kind of jargony).
Gregorian chant in an awe-inspiring cathedral was a perfect example of this repetition and mental focus, and it must have had an effect on churchgoers similar to meditation today. The technique is not tied to any particular religion.
By the way, I don’t know why Hinduism is being emphasized in this article; meditation is more associated with Buddhism than any other religion. I agree that Christian meditation is worthwhile in its own right.
A final thought: There are many paths to God, just as there are many languages on the face of the Earth.
Ha ha!
Then why would you call it Yoga? A tenet of Hinduism? Call it stretching! My goodness…it’s stupidly like this that is driving Christian America over the edge…
What health minded Christian doesn’t stretch? Yoga is much more than stretching. It is a key tenet of Hinduism. Would you call getting on your hands and knees to stretch “shahada”?
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