Warming up for a Social event or Gathering

GuitarWind21 · Tuesday at 4:20 AM

First do a few push ups and light calisthenics exercises, then rest. Then say and recite the Jesus Prayer a few sets, then pray with your own intentions, then take a a cold shower, after you're done getting dressed call up a friend or love one on the phone and have a good conversation with them to see how they're doing, then go to a coffee shop or busy interaction and say hi and chat up you see who is friendly etc....this should warm you up for the event. Anyone here has a better plan than this? lol

analyst_green · Tuesday at 9:01 AM

Pretty good plan already. Cleaning your home beforehand also helps to put you in a clean state of mind. Do some reading to help calm the mind, maybe with a cup of tea.

Thomas More · Tuesday at 9:12 AM

I'm not the most out going person, but I find I am able to go out without this kind of prep.

I do pray about the situation often, but not always. But I don't need an elaborate routine to psych myself up.

GodfatherPartTwo · Tuesday at 1:47 PM

Don't forget to douse yourself in cologne.

Caduceus · Tuesday at 5:23 PM

RedLagoon · Wednesday at 12:57 AM

Make sure you take a dump before you go.

homersheineken · Wednesday at 8:05 AM

RedLagoon said:
Make sure you take a dump before you go.

I prefer to leave a dump, not take it

GuitarWind21 · Thursday at 9:34 PM

The book How to win friends and influence people is pretty good for knowing some of the basics when it comes to this, you don't want to be manipulative so you gotta read it with a good heart and coming from a good place obviously. Taking up a Yoga or martial arts class is also a great way to make friends.

NSOE · Thursday at 10:31 PM

GuitarWind21 said:
The book How to win friends and influence people is pretty good for knowing some of the basics when it comes to this, you don't want to be manipulative so you gotta read it with a good heart and coming from a good place obviously. Taking up a Yoga or martial arts class is also a great way to make friends.

Avoid yoga completely, the poses are in praise of all the avatars and forms of demonic Hindu deities, nothing good to gain from it.

GuitarWind21 · Friday at 1:26 AM

NSOE said:
Avoid yoga completely, the poses are in praise of all the avatars and forms of demonic Hindu deities, nothing good to gain from it.

Where does mantra chanting come from then? The Jesus mantra? Hindus have been chanting mantras a lot earlier than orthodox christians have. But yes, you have a point there buddy, do what your comfortable with and what you believe. Anything that gets your way of spiritual growth and relationship with God you should definitely abandon.

Thomas More · Friday at 1:28 AM

GuitarWind21 said:
Where does mantra chanting come from then? The Jesus mantra? Hindus have been chanting mantras a lot earlier than orthodox christians have. But yes, you have a point there buddy, do what your comfortable with and what you believe. Anything that gets your way of spiritual growth and relationship with God you should definitely abandon.

The Jesus prayer is obviously good. Non Christian mantras really can't be considered the same as a Christian prayer.

GodfatherPartTwo · Friday at 2:11 AM

If by "yoga" you mean stretching then sure. I don't grant that heathen demon-worshipers own the monopoly on stretching your muscles. But if we use the white liberal yuppie definition of yoga as something "spiritual" then obviously you got a problem.

NSOE · Friday at 6:34 PM

As to mantras, I don't know how much of the future God had shown the angels who later fell, it's possible they saw that form of devotion and could have successfully incited their own worshipers to redirect these as inverted/perverted rituals to praise them instead of God. I've heard our guardian angels had been shown our whole lives before choosing whether to serve God by standing beside us, or rejecting our sinful persons and being condemned as a result.

Common sense tells me the basic poses everybody begins with have significance in Hinduism, why would a Christian do that. It may be as fundamental as the Lord's Prayer to us; newer additions by enterprising masters who must keep the student occupied probably not. Do not proceed with caution, turn around. It doesn't mean the devil will go after you instantly, but you have cracked the door open. I'd stick to the beneficial methods Europeans, or Asians have had for millennia, free of any spiritual baggage.

This is one of the first search results I got:

10 yoga poses that offer worship to Hindu deities | THE TRUE LIGHT PROJECT

This article is a pictorial presentation revealing the true meaning of various yoga poses and the gods to which they are dedicated. Practitioners may or may not be consciously aware of this spiritual connection, but it still exists. Consequently, participation in the physical exercises (asanas)...

www.thetruelight.net

The Warrior II Pose, the second of three poses that reenact a series of brutal murders

Iakobos · Saturday at 11:04 AM

I know this is getting off topic but before I converted I dabbled in Yoga classes, in Asia led by Indians, I once experienced a powerful internal vibration during what I assume was some kind of prayer segment they conducted at the end (I couldn't understand the words). This was in a setting that was ostensibly secular/exercise-centric, not an ashram or anything like that. One of the few times in my life I've ever directly experienced something preternatural and I never went back, particularly because even as a new age spiritual type, I got a very "off" feeling from the leaders of the class - they definitely weren't up to anything good and shady motivations + actual spiritual forces = bad news.