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Controlled Trial of Meditation for Work Stress, Anxiety and Depressed Mood in Full-Time Workers

  Objective. To assess the effect of meditation on work stress, anxiety and mood in full-time workers.Methods. 178 adult workers participated in an 8-week, 3-arm randomized controlled trial comparing a “mental silence” approach to meditation (n = 59) to a “relaxation” active control (n = 56) and a wait-list control (n = 63).

Corporate Meditation, A Reality!

The Corporate sector today is one of the biggest boosters of the World economy. However as a by- product many of their employees carry a huge stress factor in their lives. We all know stress when we see it (or feel it), yet it’s hard to define. Society  pushes us to attain wealth, power, and…
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Alterations in brain activation during Meditation

The electro-physiological activity of the brain changes through prolonged practice of Sahaja yoga mediation from typical fast waves during normal consciousness to a state of slow waves, similar but not identical to the sleep state (Matsuoka et al., 1990, Aftanas et al., 2001; link to Aftanas). The slow waves (the so called theta waves) are…
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Yoga – the fourth state of consciousness

Western science limits itself by considering cognitive functions such as thinking as the highest state of  consciousness. However, in eastern philosophy, as well as in western mysticism, the existence of even higher states of consciousness is common knowledge. This higher state of consciousness transcends thinking and other processes of the logical mind and has been…
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Treating Tension

Recent medical investigations have shown that emotional stress and anxiety can precipitate chemic heart disease and cause sudden death. Clinicians have also suspected for long that accumulation of small stresses from long standing conflicts can augment the development ofHypertension and even coronary atherosclerosis. Inspite of their side effects and habit forming nature there is a…
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Say ‘No’ to Drugs, Turn to Sahaja Yoga for Help

The reason why many turn to substance abuse is that they are unable to deal with life’s problems. Or their expectations are unrealistic. Depression and anger, sadness and frustration are further fuelled by drugdependency, alcoholism or both. Daniel Goleman, in Emotional Intelligence says that it is the lack of application of intelligence to emotions that…
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Stay in the Present, Stay Balanced

Many a head nodded in agreement as Nirmala Devi, spiritual leader and founder of Sahaja Yoga, said, “Don’t be too harsh on yourself. Stop feeling guilty about what has happened. Forgive yourself and forgive others.” She was speaking to the officers of Indian Administrative Service on “Stress and Tension Management” at the Y.B. Chavan auditorium…
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Benefits of Meditation

The body’s nervous system, which is part of an ultra sophisticated control mechanism, is divided into three parts; the Central, Peripheral and Autonomic Nervous Systems. These systems control how we act and perceive our universe through the senses and the autonomic system also governs the automatic running of our bodies by controlling essential non-conscious tasks…
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How Meditation works…

There are many forms of meditation, ranging in complexity from strict, regulated practices to general recommendations. If practiced regularly, meditation is thought to help develop habitual, unconscious microbehaviours that can potentially produce widespread positive effects on physical and psychological functioning. Meditation even for 15 minutes twice a day has been shown to bring beneficial results.

Personality Development through Sahaja Yoga

The body’s nervous system, which is part of an ultra sophisticated control mechanism, is divided into three parts; the Central, Peripheral and Autonomic Nervous Systems. These systems control how we act and perceive our universe through the senses and the autonomic system also governs the automatic running of our bodies by controlling essential non-conscious tasks…
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