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Breathe in the Love of God

Re: Connection During my yoga practice today, a thought occurred to me to compare the yoga concept of Prana, the vital breath, with God's connection to Adam in the Garden of Eden—He " breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ". As I practiced breathing, I visualized the air around me was a physical representation of God’s love for me. (Let that idea sink in.) For those unfamiliar with the term, what is know to yogis as  prana, the Chinese call  chi , the Japanese qi , and the Egyptians  ka . While prana is not exactly breath, air, or oxygen, this non-physical essential energy flows through and around the body and is responsible for your aliveness. In yoga, the concept of prana is very scientific. Prana means the original life force. — Prana: the Universal Life Force  by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, published in Yoga Magazine, Zinal (Switzerland), September 1981 From an LDS perspective, we learn from King Benjamin of the Book of Mormon that ever...