Does Sahaja Meditation offer any provable physiological benefits? Do you consider Sahaja Meditation to be a "therapy?"
Absolutely. Sahaja Meditation can cure or help treat all sorts of illnesses, either as an adjunct therapy or, in some cases, as a standalone therapy. The benefits of meditation are becoming increasingly popular and accepted by the medical community. Sahaja Meditation is being researched and being accepted as a therapeutic intervention in the field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).
I think that Sahaja Meditation practitioners historically didn't make a serious attempt to document the physical health benefits of thoughtless awareness, or encourage research that would help pinpoint how the regular practice of Sahaja can impact the human body with respect to specific diseases and disorders. But there's growing body of research, including published studies, that helps us document the specific health benefits of Sahaja. Also, the community of Sahaja practitioners includes some medical doctors and physicians of all stripes who are doing extensive research.
Recently, they've been working with HealthCorps and heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, who hosts the popular syndicated television show, The Dr. Oz Show, and serves as The Oprah Winfrey Show's Health Expert. They've been very impressed with Sahaja's flexibility and the powerful impact it has had on school children in terms of both physical health and mental resilience.
Over the years, Sahaja practitioners have offered seminars in conjunction with the U.S. government's National Institutes of Mental Health (NIH). For example, Dr. Umesh C. Rai, a renowned medical physiologist from India, has conducted seminars detailing how Sahaja Meditation's ability to clear the subtle energy centers could prevent and cure high blood pressure and ischaemic heart disease, asthma, epilepsy, migraine syndrome and a host of other illnesses. NIH officials have publicly stated that they believe Sahaja Meditation is important to NIH research. NIH believes in energy medicine and sees the powerful role of spirituality in the healing process.
They also have hospitals dedicated to curing people of some diseases in Russia and India. They've even seen Sahaja cure cancer and other debilitating or life-threatening diseases. I can tell you, from my own personal experience, that through specific meditative techniques that balance the energy, I've been able to help some people get rid of antidepressant medications over time and even cure some liver problems. They've told me that months of taking antidepressants didn't provide as much benefit as Sahaja Meditation provided in a matter of weeks.
The typical benefits that everyone immediately experiences are stress relief; cooling of the body as one relaxes, since we tend to get "overheated" when our brains are overactive and we work more; emotional balance; a sense of self-control, and reduction in anger, anxiety, irritation, frustration and other negative emotions and reactions.
Some neuroimaging studies have shown that meditation increases activation in the left side of the frontal lobe, an area that's associated with lower anxiety and a positive emotional state. One 2005 EEG study published in International Journal of Neuroscience showed that people that practice meditation in the longer term have greater emotional stability, reduced emotional reactivity and greater resilience to stressful stimuli.
But I do want to mention that it's not their practice to make official claims about healing. Healing and cure is not Sahaja Meditation's core objective, nor do they consider themselves to be a recognized, formal system of treatments for diseases and disorders. Treatment and cure is a coincidental benefit of Sahaja Meditation — a wonderful byproduct — not their ultimate goal. Having said that, healing — and long-term wellness — begins with harnessing one's own untapped energy. So at the very least, Sahaja Meditation is a great place to start.
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I think that Sahaja Meditation practitioners historically didn't make a serious attempt to document the physical health benefits of thoughtless awareness, or encourage research that would help pinpoint how the regular practice of Sahaja can impact the human body with respect to specific diseases and disorders. But there's growing body of research, including published studies, that helps us document the specific health benefits of Sahaja. Also, the community of Sahaja practitioners includes some medical doctors and physicians of all stripes who are doing extensive research.
Recently, they've been working with HealthCorps and heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, who hosts the popular syndicated television show, The Dr. Oz Show, and serves as The Oprah Winfrey Show's Health Expert. They've been very impressed with Sahaja's flexibility and the powerful impact it has had on school children in terms of both physical health and mental resilience.
Over the years, Sahaja practitioners have offered seminars in conjunction with the U.S. government's National Institutes of Mental Health (NIH). For example, Dr. Umesh C. Rai, a renowned medical physiologist from India, has conducted seminars detailing how Sahaja Meditation's ability to clear the subtle energy centers could prevent and cure high blood pressure and ischaemic heart disease, asthma, epilepsy, migraine syndrome and a host of other illnesses. NIH officials have publicly stated that they believe Sahaja Meditation is important to NIH research. NIH believes in energy medicine and sees the powerful role of spirituality in the healing process.
They also have hospitals dedicated to curing people of some diseases in Russia and India. They've even seen Sahaja cure cancer and other debilitating or life-threatening diseases. I can tell you, from my own personal experience, that through specific meditative techniques that balance the energy, I've been able to help some people get rid of antidepressant medications over time and even cure some liver problems. They've told me that months of taking antidepressants didn't provide as much benefit as Sahaja Meditation provided in a matter of weeks.
The typical benefits that everyone immediately experiences are stress relief; cooling of the body as one relaxes, since we tend to get "overheated" when our brains are overactive and we work more; emotional balance; a sense of self-control, and reduction in anger, anxiety, irritation, frustration and other negative emotions and reactions.
Some neuroimaging studies have shown that meditation increases activation in the left side of the frontal lobe, an area that's associated with lower anxiety and a positive emotional state. One 2005 EEG study published in International Journal of Neuroscience showed that people that practice meditation in the longer term have greater emotional stability, reduced emotional reactivity and greater resilience to stressful stimuli.
But I do want to mention that it's not their practice to make official claims about healing. Healing and cure is not Sahaja Meditation's core objective, nor do they consider themselves to be a recognized, formal system of treatments for diseases and disorders. Treatment and cure is a coincidental benefit of Sahaja Meditation — a wonderful byproduct — not their ultimate goal. Having said that, healing — and long-term wellness — begins with harnessing one's own untapped energy. So at the very least, Sahaja Meditation is a great place to start.
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