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

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

The Pressure Cooker

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

Releases Stress

Improves memory,attention.

Healthy life style

Physical Benefits

Self Realization – What’s that ?

Why Meditation?

The Channels(Human Subtle System)

Center ChannelCenter Channel

Right ChannelRight Channel

Left ChannelLeft Channel

Kundalini/Creative energyKundalini/Creative energy

Pure Knowledge/ Creativity

Satisfaction

Love and Compassion

Sweet Speech/Collectivity

Forgiveness

Integration

Innocence

The Centers(centers of energy)

• 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)

Effects of Self-realization

• 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

Meditation twice a day is recommended

Regular Meditation

Video(Research on SM)

http://www.freemeditation.ca/videos/2009/05/03/positive-effects-of-sahaja-yoga-meditation/