Yoga Community Blog » meditation http://blog.yoga-from-a-to-z.com at Yoga-from-A-to-Z.com: Your Personal Free Online Teacher Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:50:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Does prayer help meditation? http://blog.yoga-from-a-to-z.com/2010/03/12/does-prayer-help-meditation/ http://blog.yoga-from-a-to-z.com/2010/03/12/does-prayer-help-meditation/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:24:53 +0000 Alexey (Yoga-from-A-to-Z.com) http://blog.yoga-from-a-to-z.com/?p=649 I just read on one of the web-sites: “It’s beneficial to begin your meditation with a prayer. Praying helps you remember why you are meditating.”

Here are my two cents:

Yoga doesn’t imply a particular sort of prayer or “belief-system”. You don’t have to be a Hindu (or Buddhist) to meditate. Yoga doesn’t force you to be a [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://blog.yoga-from-a-to-z.com/2010/03/12/does-prayer-help-meditation/feed/ 3 Why possibility for meditation is a bliss. And an experiment in which I almost killed myself… twice… http://blog.yoga-from-a-to-z.com/2010/01/18/why-possibility-for-meditation-is-a-bliss-and-an-experiment-in-which-i-almost-killed-myself-twice/ http://blog.yoga-from-a-to-z.com/2010/01/18/why-possibility-for-meditation-is-a-bliss-and-an-experiment-in-which-i-almost-killed-myself-twice/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:00:49 +0000 Alexey (Yoga-from-A-to-Z.com) http://blog.yoga-from-a-to-z.com/?p=539 Let me start with an “experiment” and then move to some thoughts on meditation.

I actually didn’t plan what happened – I simply didn’t have enough knowledge. It was a discovery for me that when mind becomes very tired – it just shuts down – it stops working with signals coming from outside at least.