SP writes: "I wonder if you can tell me what the connection is between owls and the new age movement is. It seems that owls are all the craze & I have even met a few people that hold them as 'sacred", which confused me further when they wouldn't elaborate. Please advise since my daughter received an owl necklace from a friend & I don't feel comfortable having her wear it."
JA writes: "I am wondering what 'send energy' is? I recently offered to pray for a friend and she requested that I 'send positive energy.' What does that mean? If this is new age lingo, what commandment is it breaking?"
Focusing is not New Age although it can certainly be used in that way by psychotherapists who espouse a New Age worldview. There are also versions of it that incorporate Buddhist mindfulness meditation techniques into the practice of focusing which is why people should be cautious when approaching this kind of therapy.
Dean BroylesLawyers trying to stop a California school district from teaching Ashtanga yoga in schools are vowing to fight on after a judge decided the practice does not promote religion.
An encyclical was issued on June 4, 2013 by Metropolitan Markos of Chios on Christians who practice Yoga and whether or not it is merely a physical exercise. In this encyclical he explains that the Hindu religious practice of yoga was established for the sole purpose of entering into a spiritual state, and never had anything to do with exercise until a few decades ago when Hindu yogis explained it this way when they were trying to win converts in the West.
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