I tend to have a tendency to feel good right after I do these meditations. I’m like “Oh my God! I can feel the energy in my body! I’m okay! Everything’s okay!” and I’m like “Oh my God! I can feel the energy in my body! I’m okay! Everything’s okay!” That’s the difference between a yoga class and a meditation class.
What we’re really trying to say is that both are great practices, but meditation is especially good for working on yourself as well as for making you feel better about yourself. If you feel good, you won’t feel bad. If you feel bad, you won’t feel good. Meditation is the practice of relaxing and breathing deeply into your body. Yoga is the practice of practicing the movements of your body, especially the movements of your feet and legs.
Meditation is a “set” of disciplines that is specific to one’s particular body. Yoga, on the other hand, is a set of principles that can be applied to any body. If you want to meditate, it’s important to find a class where you can sit down and meditate, and it’s also important to find a teacher who can guide you through this practice.
The only thing I really like about yoga, beyond the practice itself, is it’s just so relaxing. The only other thing is that it’s a very specific practice (for instance, yoga is taught in a very specific way for one’s hips, chest, neck, shoulders, arms, and hands). But if you can manage to find a teacher who is able to guide you through your practice, you can do much more than just relax and breathe deeply into your body.
Meditation is a method of self-inquiry and meditation is a practice that requires the mind to be quiet and focused. A yoga practice is a broad method of self-inquiry that allows the mind to be in a state of stillness. That is to say, the mind needs to be quiet in order for us to be able to fully understand the meaning of the practice.
A lot of people are familiar with meditation as a way of controlling their minds so that they can think clearly. If you are like me, you’ve probably had to meditate at least once in your life with someone who’s been there before. When you have someone who can guide you through a practice, it is much easier to sit in your room and let your mind wander. The practice is a lot more like a game of cards.
A lot of people associate yoga with a lot of intense physical movements and poses that are difficult to practice in private. Like when you have a teacher who loves to tell people to do yoga, sometimes it is actually quite easy. But for many of us, we need a partner who can guide us through a practice. And that is the point of meditation, to have a teacher who can guide you through your thoughts.
The same can be said for meditation. The goal is to really quiet your mind so you can think about your breath, your body, your thoughts. It is like the perfect time for you to let your mind wander so that you can come back to it later on.
For many people, like myself, the thought of meditation is a frightening one. But I’m here to tell you that it is the most positive thing that can happen to you. I’ve been to many a meditation retreat and it doesn’t even feel like anything is going on. I really believe that meditation is a way to stay in the present, to realize that we are living in a moment, we are breathing in and breathing out, we are making decisions, we are moving.
In the last decade or so, the “mind-body connection” or “mind-lover” movement has become a lot of popularized. In these circles you get people telling you to “get into the habit of meditating,” or “meditate every day.” But that doesn’t mean you have to meditate every day.