Let's start with stress management…explain how Sahaja Meditation helps people manage stress…
Well, we've long known that Meditation provides significant stress relief and is, in fact, a good long-term stress management strategy. More and more, modern research is showing us that, in one way or another, stress contributes to most psychological and physical health problems.
To understand how Sahaja Meditation works on the body, you have to understand what stress actually is. Anything that we consider to be threatening to us in some way — either physically or emotionally — is a stressor. Stress occurs when we develop doubts about our ability to deal with such causative factors known as stressors. This could any new circumstance in our lives, say when changing jobs, because we are initially uncertain about our ability to perform the job. However, stress turns out to be a problem when such situations reach a point beyond our capabilities of dealing with them.
The state of inner calm that Sahaja Meditation induces can relieve stress not only by relaxing the mind and body, but by sharpening your focus and improving your decision-making ability, which enables you to better cope with stressful events on an ongoing basis. Sahaja Meditation raises your awareness to a new plane of consciousness. This helps you feel the inner energy and use it in healing and improving youself. Sahaja Meditation allows you to intervene with your central nervous system and influence the state of its energy centers and channels of energy. If you have good coping mechanisms, you can minimize the impact of stress on your health and relationships.
At a superficial level, Sahaja Meditation offers stress relief similar to other meditation systems by calming the mind, cooling us down so that overreactions and overactivity of the brain can be prevented as our stress levels rise. We know that Sahaja Meditation is all about the inner energy awakening, right? So, each time you meditate, the inner energy rises and passes through the principal energy centers, nourishing and revitalizing them, and connecting with the source — the all-pervading energy. Forty years of Sahaja Meditation research and practice have allowed us to determine that these energy centers are the root control system for the mental, emotional and physical functioning of the body. So, the greater the nourishment, the better the functioning of the body, overall.
The energy centers are connected to energy channels, beginning with the central nervous system and cascading down to the autonomic nervous system, including the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems on both sides of the body. When stress levels increase, brain activity increases, and an energy imbalance is created due to overuse of the energy center located in the right sympathetic nervous system. When overactivity elevates to a certain point, the functioning of some internal organs is affected; in this case, primarily the liver, which performs the important function of removing the heat from the blood that is circulating throughout our bodies. Stress and increased mental activity increases our body temperature and heat, which can gradually result in frustration, irritation, anxiety and manifestations of anger.
When you practice Sahaja Meditation continuously, the energy nourishes the energy centers and helps keep them in balance. When a stressful event occurs, meditation can revitalize the energy centers and balance the energy flow. When the inner energy connects with the all-pervading source of energy, the energy center that is overheated or sucking up more energy is replenished and energy flows better, as well.
People who practice Sahaja Meditation on an ongoing basis actually have a built-in stress management strategy. They can assess their stress levels on an ongoing basis, learn to detect the resulting energy imbalances quickly and perform the balancing techniques necessary for achieving energy balance. One reason that Sahaja Meditation can significantly reduce the occurrence of stress-related problems is that the energy replenishment and vitalization of continuous meditative practices keeps the energy centers in balance and works to keep the root cause of all health, emotional and mental problems in check.
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To understand how Sahaja Meditation works on the body, you have to understand what stress actually is. Anything that we consider to be threatening to us in some way — either physically or emotionally — is a stressor. Stress occurs when we develop doubts about our ability to deal with such causative factors known as stressors. This could any new circumstance in our lives, say when changing jobs, because we are initially uncertain about our ability to perform the job. However, stress turns out to be a problem when such situations reach a point beyond our capabilities of dealing with them.
The state of inner calm that Sahaja Meditation induces can relieve stress not only by relaxing the mind and body, but by sharpening your focus and improving your decision-making ability, which enables you to better cope with stressful events on an ongoing basis. Sahaja Meditation raises your awareness to a new plane of consciousness. This helps you feel the inner energy and use it in healing and improving youself. Sahaja Meditation allows you to intervene with your central nervous system and influence the state of its energy centers and channels of energy. If you have good coping mechanisms, you can minimize the impact of stress on your health and relationships.
At a superficial level, Sahaja Meditation offers stress relief similar to other meditation systems by calming the mind, cooling us down so that overreactions and overactivity of the brain can be prevented as our stress levels rise. We know that Sahaja Meditation is all about the inner energy awakening, right? So, each time you meditate, the inner energy rises and passes through the principal energy centers, nourishing and revitalizing them, and connecting with the source — the all-pervading energy. Forty years of Sahaja Meditation research and practice have allowed us to determine that these energy centers are the root control system for the mental, emotional and physical functioning of the body. So, the greater the nourishment, the better the functioning of the body, overall.
The energy centers are connected to energy channels, beginning with the central nervous system and cascading down to the autonomic nervous system, including the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems on both sides of the body. When stress levels increase, brain activity increases, and an energy imbalance is created due to overuse of the energy center located in the right sympathetic nervous system. When overactivity elevates to a certain point, the functioning of some internal organs is affected; in this case, primarily the liver, which performs the important function of removing the heat from the blood that is circulating throughout our bodies. Stress and increased mental activity increases our body temperature and heat, which can gradually result in frustration, irritation, anxiety and manifestations of anger.
When you practice Sahaja Meditation continuously, the energy nourishes the energy centers and helps keep them in balance. When a stressful event occurs, meditation can revitalize the energy centers and balance the energy flow. When the inner energy connects with the all-pervading source of energy, the energy center that is overheated or sucking up more energy is replenished and energy flows better, as well.
People who practice Sahaja Meditation on an ongoing basis actually have a built-in stress management strategy. They can assess their stress levels on an ongoing basis, learn to detect the resulting energy imbalances quickly and perform the balancing techniques necessary for achieving energy balance. One reason that Sahaja Meditation can significantly reduce the occurrence of stress-related problems is that the energy replenishment and vitalization of continuous meditative practices keeps the energy centers in balance and works to keep the root cause of all health, emotional and mental problems in check.
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