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Apparently, Fitbit\/Pebble, a popular fitness watch company, has decided to promote Hinduism. Recently I received an email from the company announcing a new app for my Blaze watch. The Message was as follows:<\/p>\nApparently, Fitbit\/Pebble, a popular fitness watch company, has decided to promote Hinduism. Recently I received an email from the company announcing a new app for my Blaze watch. The Message was as follows:<\/p>\n
\u201cFind a Sense of Calm: Relax with personalized guided breathing sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n
I followed the link provided, which led to a section on Fitbit\u2019s website entitled, HOW CAN GUIDED BREATHING HELP ME FEEL RELAXED? There were a links provided, so I clicked on them.<\/p>\n
The first one led me to the American Institute of Stress, which in my opinion is a New Age Religious organization masquerading as a medical website. On their home page were quotes by Viktor E. Frankl and Friedrich Nietzsche. In their Stress Management section, the picture of a woman meditating in Yoga position greeted me (see picture on left). There were repeated references to Yoga and other New Age forms of meditation.<\/p>\n
The other link led me to the American Heath Association\u2019s website entitled, \u201cMeditation and Heart Health.\u201d Featured in the article was Richard A. Stein, professor of medicine and director of the exercise and nutrition program at New York University\u2019s Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Stein encourages his patients to find local classes on meditation to get started. He mentions Tai Chi and Yoga.<\/p>\n
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The article goes on to describe the \u201cbenefits\u201d of Transcendental Meditation.<\/p>\n
\u201cTranscendental meditation is a technique that allows your mind to focus inward, maintaining alertness to other thoughts or sensations without allowing them to interfere. It\u2019s done seated with your eyes closed for 20 minutes, twice a day.<\/p>\n
Mindful mediation may use sound or touch, for example the ringing of a bell, chanting, beads or a simple object to help the mind to focus. Relaxation response meditation uses a single word to focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n
That does not describe the experience with TM before I was delivered. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, an Indian guru, developed TM in 1957. One transcends cognition of material existence during meditation by chanting a mantra. You come back to reality by opening your eyes. It is not much different than other Eastern meditation practices, such as Contemplative Prayer and Yoga. The danger is an open invite to demon possession.<\/p>\n
I contacted Fitbit\/Pebble via their customer support chat. When the support person typed \u201cHi\u201d and asked what I needed, I typed the following question.<\/p>\n
\u201cHi, since there is now a Hindu app for my Blaze, I was wondering if there were any plans for a Christian app.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here was no response, so I typed, \u201cThe meditation app promotes Yoga, which is exclusive to the Hindu religion.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was still no response, so I typed; \u201cI’m talking about the app with the guided breathing sessions. I followed the link you provided and it is about Yoga. Yoga is the practice of Hinduism.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p>\n The customer support representative never responded. Evidently, the individual did not believe that it was in his or her best interests to answer me.<\/p>\n On the Fitbit\/Pebble website, I perused the section listing corporate board members. Adam Pellegrini, VP, Digital Health, is responsible for leading Fitbit\u2019s integration into healthcare systems around the world. Thus, paganism will be introduced via Fitbit\u2019s watches to possibly millions of unsuspecting individuals. It is another indication that society has reached the point that genuine Christians must be on continuously alert to the encroaching New Age paganism.<\/p>\n It is not just an invasion in the secular realm, but New Age practices (contemplative prayer) and secularism have made significant advancements into Christianity through individuals such as, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, and Bob Buford. These individuals were heavily influenced by Peter Drucker, famed innovator accredited with incorporating New Age practices into business and management.[2]<\/a><\/p>\n Although the secular and religious sectors insist that there are better ways to find peace than genuine Christianity, it is not genuine peace. Instead, it is false peace that stems from deception and delusion. Transcendental Meditation, Yoga, Tai Chia, and all other pagan practices are Satan\u2019s inventions to lure people away from God and true peace.<\/p>\n Anyone who introduces pagan practices into Christianity has in effect rejected God\u2019s word and truth. Such deception is possible because people demand a stress-free existence. Just as drugs that induce “peace” do not solve the problems that cause stress, pagan practices cannot solve one\u2019s spiritual problems. Only full surrender to God can do that. His word and Holy Spirit provides us all that we need to be victorious even in a world entrapped by New Age paganism.<\/p>\n Sadly, professing Christians whose religious experience is with anemic, ritualistic, or heresy-compromised Christianity are at risk. They are at risk from deception in books and movies (Jesus Calling, The Shack) that appeals to and manipulates the emotional system. They are enticed by deception that appeals to and manipulates the intellect. Other deceptions appealing directly to and manipulating humanity\u2019s desire for spiritual fulfillment lures them. Amazingly, nominal professing Christians accept these deceptions, but refuse to pray, accept truth, and have a genuine and continuous experience with God.<\/p>\n The Bible does not promise that a Christian\u2019s life is free from stress. God does not always deliver us from experiencing negative emotions and situations. However, the Holy Spirit teaches and enables us to go through them. He gives us the power to rise above it all. As a result, we become stronger and more aware of His presence. The danger of pagan practices is that one not only becomes spiritual weak, but deceived and unwittingly attracted to Satan via his devices. One of those devices may be a fitness watch.<\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n