Meditation... Another Way
Individual and group sessions
We’ve been told for years that meditation is really beneficial. For the western mind, however, the instructions to clear your mind of thoughts can be a recipe for failure. There is another way.
I teach meditation without strain, a process that brings ease not stress. This process is simple and always successful. If you learned meditation before and you stopped because it wasn’t working for you, try meditation again. This time try it in a way that gives you ease and grace (success) instead of stress and tension (failure.) This type of meditation is as natural as breathing. If you’ve never meditated before or if you have, and want to experience some new options, you are in for a treat!
From a spiritual point of view, we can learn simple yet profound techniques for accessing the deepest inner place within us — the Transcendent State — the place of Silence. It is in this state that we have access to the deepest parts of ourselves, deep peace, wisdom and intuition.
Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, and one of the great spiritual teachers of all time, wrote:
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This life is a master novel, written by God, and man would go crazy if he tried to understand it by reason alone. That is why I tell you to meditate more. Enlarge the magic cup of your intuition and then you will be able to hold the ocean of Infinite wisdom.” (www.SelfRealizationFellowship.org)“
The aim is to gain one-pointedness. When concentration increases, thoughts decrease and when thoughts decrease, the mind and intellect will become subtler. This subtly will help in having spiritual experience. Spiritual experience cannot be attained through the gross mind and intellect. Reality is subtler than the subtlest... To experience the Self or Atman which is subtlest of all subtle things, we should develop subtlety of mind... One cannot understand everything of life if one stays on the gross external plane. There are many mysteries in this universe about which one cannot even imagine. To experience all those, one should go into the subtle planes of existence.” (www.Ammachi.org)“
Silence is the means of restructuring our consciousness.” (www.greatpeace.net)Together, we can explore wonderful techniques that can help make meditating a regular part of your life. If you are already a meditator, we can explore tools for allowing this process to embrace even more of your life.
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There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.”Oprah Winfrey
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Meditation Nation: It’s not just New Age anymore. Americans of all kinds are meditating to boost their immune systems and to reduce stress.”Time Magazine, August 2003
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Over 500 studies have been completed on the physiological, psychological, and sociological effects of the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, making it perhaps the most intensively studied technology in the field of human development. These studies have been conducted at 210 different universities and research institutions in 27 countries, and articles have now appeared in more than 100 scientific journals. These studies have been gathered in Scientific Research on the Maharishi Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, Volumes 1-6, containing over 4,000 pages of scientific papers and appear below in the Bibliography of 508 TM program studies.”-
Improved Mental Abilities: Increased intelligence, increased creativity, improved learning ability, improved memory, improved reaction time, higher levels of moral reasoning, improved academic achievement, greater orderliness of brain functioning, increased self-actualization.
Improved Health: Reduced stress and anxiety, reduced hospitalization, reduced incidence of disease, reduced need for out-patient medical care, reduced health care costs, reduced use of alcohol and drugs, improved cardiovascular health, reduced physical complaints, increased longevity.
Improved Social Behavior: Improved self-confidence, reduced anxiety, improved family life, improved relationships at home and at work, increased tolerance, improved job performance, increased job satisfaction.
Reversal of the Aging Process: Biological age measures how old a person is physiologically. As a group, long-term meditators who had been practicing the Transcendental Meditation program for more than five years were physiologically 12 years younger than their chronological age, as measured by reduction of blood pressure, and better near-point vision and auditory discrimination. Short-term meditators were physiologically five years younger than their chronological age. The study statistically controlled for the effects of diet and exercise.
Increased Self Actualization: Statistical meta-analysis of all available studies (42 independent outcomes) indicated that Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation program increases self-actualization much more than other forms of meditation and relaxation. Self-actualization refers to: integration and stability of personality, self-regard, emotional maturity, capacity for warm interpersonal relationships, and adaptive response to challenges.
Cynthia Grace Luma 207-439-6600
cynthia@centerforinnerpeace.net