Stress can bog you down and put you on edge. A sick nervous feeling can fester in your chest. It comes both when you least expect it, and it sometimes builds gradually. The burden lingers. Your focus blurs, you feel lost.
An ability to quiet the mind, breathe, and escape the maelstrom is a powerful skill that many of us never practice. Meditation can take place anywhere. Many consider trying to take a quiet moment to clear the air and get a breather, but most don't. For the inexperienced, the stress returns. Honing and regularly practicing meditation skills can greatly increase your ability to overcome great hardship.
A portion of your religion’s development should include practiced meditation rituals. Incorporate these into the religion. Meditation at home or in special locations, such as beneath the last set of steps at the bottom of a stairwell, can include various paraphernalia or garb you feel enhance the experience, but train your skill to meditate anywhere – with only your breathing. There is a time and place for the purple hat with a golden triangle you had in mind. Focused breathing needs it not. Become an All Terrain Vehicle of meditation. Sharpen your ability to control the senses.
Yoga can broaden your skill. Consider adopting and adapting it to your religion. If it sounds like something you’d like to redefine, feel free to do so. There’s nothing to stop you from calling it Tet-Sumashti, Underdrownding, or Yogurt.
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