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Sahaja Meditation. "What you seek is often closer than you think. INNER PEACE LIES WITHIN YOUR HEART.” Classes on Campus UNIV 103 every Wednesday @ 7:00pm. purduemeditation@gmail.com. The Pressure Cooker . Key Findings APA Survey 2 007 STRESS: Portrait of a National Pressure Cooker
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Sahaja Meditation "What you seek is often closer than you think. INNER PEACE LIES WITHIN YOUR HEART.” Classes on Campus UNIV 103 every Wednesday @ 7:00pm. purduemeditation@gmail.com
The Pressure Cooker Key Findings APA Survey 2 007 STRESS: Portrait of a National Pressure Cooker Stress is a fact of life (agreed 79 percent of people), but according to survey responses, Americans routinely experience what they believe are higher than healthy levels of stress. One-third of people in the U.S. regularly report experiencing extreme levels of stress (32 percent), and nearly one in five (17 percent) report that they experienced their highest level of stress 15 or more days per month. Even more alarming, nearly half of Americans (48 percent) believe that their stress has increased over the past five years. Google keyword “stress in America” http://www.apa.org/releases/stressproblem.html
Anatomy of Stress The actions of the parasympathetic nervous system can be summarized as "rest and digest" (as opposed to the "fight-or-flight" effects of the sympathetic nervous system). It is also quite the opposite for the sympathetic nervous system. Autonomic nervous system innervation, showing the sympathetic and parasympathetic (craniosacral) systems, in red and blue, respectively
Why Meditation? Releases Stress Improves memory,attention. Healthy life style Physical Benefits Self Realization – What’s that ?
Right Channel Left Channel Center Channel The Channels (Human Subtle System)
Integration Forgiveness Sweet Speech/Collectivity Love and Compassion Satisfaction Pure Knowledge/ Creativity Kundalini/Creative energy Innocence The Centers (centers of energy)
Effects of Self-realization • Thoughtless awareness – Go beyond your thoughts • Awareness of centers and channels in your subtle system • Immense Joy! • Cool breeze on the palms of your hands and on the top of your head (fontanel bone area)
Meditation twice a day is recommended Regular Meditation • Gradual improvement of centers • Inner peace • Disappearance of physical, psychological and psychosomatic problems, as well as incurable diseases • Improvement of family, professional and spiritual life
Video(Research on SM)http://www.freemeditation.ca/videos/2009/05/03/positive-effects-of-sahaja-yoga-meditation/