Renewal of the Mind is better than Yoga

Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].
Romans 8:6

“Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you].”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭12‬:‭2‬ ‭

I’m sitting in my house, looking out the window and seeing the weather and thinking about how the wind will spread seeds, the rain will soften the soil. God designed storms to do a lot of destructive creation. In the natural, the last few years have been crazy. We had an amazing President for 3 years, record job growth, record economic boon for the American people, the best of the last 12 years. But it was suddenly, violently, ripped away in 2020.

You know they say “hindsight is 20-20” meaning that it’s always easier to see clearly looking backwards. However, people picked up a lot of bad habits, old sin parading as new habits, and just a lot of stupidity. Instead of relationship, we were told to “social distance.” In some areas, so called “officials” used their authority to force people into disregarding the health of their own family for their own protection. In 2024, we learned almost everything they told us was made up by those same so called “officials.”

One of the crazy things that came out of this time was an increase in “Self-Care” awareness. This notion that if we spent more time “caring for ourselves” then we’d somehow be more able to fight off a virus. While some of that is true, you need to have at least some health to fight off infection, some of this methods of “self-care” that were peddled the most were nothing more than Eastern mysticism parading as pseudo-health care. Yoga, meditation, chants, self-actualization, all these are principles of Eastern oriented witchcraft. Yoga, for example, is really just physical and spiritual attempts to open yourself up to demonic possession and oppression. No thanks.

Hearing Christians trying to “redeem” something that is fundamentally evil is like trying to restore Sodom and Gomorrah while it’s being destroyed for the wretched filth it was subscribed to and engaged in.

As believers the best sources of ”Self-Care” are to “Deny ourselves” (Matthew 16:24), be transformed by the renewing of our mind (see above, Romans 12:2). Because Paul tells us just before chapter 12 that the mind that is set “on the flesh is death.” (Romans 8:6). This is clearly the case when we look at the life of the unbeliever or the people that actively reject God. Their lives, however moral, however reasoned, are not leading to the one place they need to be to find life!

We can only find true renewal of our thinking in the Word of God, coupled with the Holy Spirit. The only true access we can get to that is through the Salvation message of Jesus Christ! That, my friends, is better than Yoga will ever be!