{"id":9415,"date":"2012-08-27T04:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T08:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=9415"},"modified":"2021-12-29T18:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T18:49:05","slug":"meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Can Be \/ Doesn\u2019t Have To Be A Religious Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Reflection_XXIV_5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9416\" title=\"Reflection_XXIV_5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Reflection_XXIV_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMeditation isn\u2019t a religious practice. The origin of some meditation practices cannot be traced to a religious practice. While many meditation practices do originate from religious traditions, they can be repurposed for secular life. You don\u2019t need to have a religious practice to benefit from meditating. Regardless of whether you do or don\u2019t incorporate a religious component into your meditations, you will experience physical, mental, and emotional benefits by meditating.<\/p>\n<p>Meditation can enhance your religious practices. All religions practice some form(s) of meditation. Forms of meditation not included in your religious tradition can be used to enhance your experiences both in your daily life and within your religious &#8211; simply change the iconography before you practice the meditation. Whether you meditate to increase your compassion for others by visualizing Christ or Buddha or something non-denominational, compassionate action is the end result.<\/p>\n<p>Meditating benefits everyone. Whether your meditation practice is or is not religious is up to you. It\u2019s your practice.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/creativity\/vision\/meditation\/\">Find more on Mindfulness here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation isn\u2019t a religious practice. The origin of some meditation practices cannot be traced to a religious practice. While many meditation practices do originate from religious traditions, they can be repurposed for secular life. You don\u2019t need to have a religious practice to benefit from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2210],"tags":[2972,2973],"post_folder":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Meditation Can Be \/ Doesn\u2019t Have To Be A Religious Experience - John Paul Caponigro<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meditation Can Be \/ Doesn\u2019t Have To Be A Religious Experience - John Paul Caponigro\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Meditation isn\u2019t a religious practice. The origin of some meditation practices cannot be traced to a religious practice. While many meditation practices do originate from religious traditions, they can be repurposed for secular life. You don\u2019t need to have a religious practice to benefit from...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"John Paul Caponigro\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-08-27T08:01:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-12-29T18:49:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Reflection_XXIV_5.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"johnpaulcaponigro\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Meditation Can Be \/ Doesn\u2019t Have To Be A Religious Experience - John Paul Caponigro","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Meditation Can Be \/ Doesn\u2019t Have To Be A Religious Experience - John Paul Caponigro","og_description":"Meditation isn\u2019t a religious practice. The origin of some meditation practices cannot be traced to a religious practice. While many meditation practices do originate from religious traditions, they can be repurposed for secular life. You don\u2019t need to have a religious practice to benefit from...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/","og_site_name":"John Paul Caponigro","article_published_time":"2012-08-27T08:01:47+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-12-29T18:49:05+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Reflection_XXIV_5.jpg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"johnpaulcaponigro","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/","name":"John Paul Caponigro","description":"Illuminating Creativity","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Reflection_XXIV_5.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Reflection_XXIV_5.jpg","width":425,"height":432},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/","name":"Meditation Can Be \/ Doesn\u2019t Have To Be A Religious Experience - John Paul Caponigro","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2012-08-27T08:01:47+00:00","dateModified":"2021-12-29T18:49:05+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/858a1050968a36008905f1980aae47b0"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/9415\/meditation-can-be-doesnt-have-to-be-a-religious-experience\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Meditation Can Be \/ Doesn\u2019t Have To Be A Religious Experience"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/858a1050968a36008905f1980aae47b0","name":"johnpaulcaponigro","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/309d46e93fff33337943899d8f3269cf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/309d46e93fff33337943899d8f3269cf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"johnpaulcaponigro"},"url":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/author\/johnpaulcaponigro\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41052,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9415\/revisions\/41052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9415"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=9415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}