Sahaja Meditation Relieves Stress
Stress is a popular topic of conversation these days. We often talk about feeling stressed out, burned out, or — on a really bad day — "losing it." If you've caught yourself saying (or even thinking) those words, you're not alone. In fact, a few startling studies suggest that around 75 percent of all physician office visits are due to stress-related ailments and complaints. In one way or another, stress contributes to all psychological and physical health problems.
Stress has become an idea we toss around too casually; the terms stress and stressor are often conflated. What qualifies as a stressor? Anything that we perceive to be threatening to us in some way — whether physically or emotionally. But actual stress only occurs when we don't have confidence in our ability to deal with that stressor. In other words, stress is not the problem. The problem is having too much stress and not enough resources to cope with it. (Coping is any strategy that you use to deal with a situation that strains or overwhelms your emotional or physical resources.) For example, starting a new job (or any new endeavor, for that matter) can be stressful because we haven’t yet convinced ourselves that we can do the job. When does stress become dangerous? When it interferes with your ability, for an extended period of time, to live a normal life. For example, if you find yourself feeling out of control with no idea how to fix even relatively minor problems, these feelings of helplessness can cause you to feel fatigued, unable to concentrate, or irritable and angry. People who meditate regularly are actually activating a built-in stress management mechanism that helps them handle stressors on an ongoing basis. Stress relief, in fact, is the all-but-certain immediate health benefit that every meditator experiences. Negative emotions such as anger, anxiety, frustration and guilt begin to melt away. Emotional balance and a sense of self-control return.
How does Sahaja Meditation relieve stress and improve physical and mental health?
It's about energy -- the inner energy that's inside all of us, just waiting to be awakened. Influencing the inner energy, which is a feature unique to Sahaja Meditation, eases the meditator into the powerful state of thoughtless awareness. It's virtually spontaneous. It requires very little effort. Thoughtless awareness is an effective stress relieve strategy. The sense of inner calm you experience relaxes your mind and body while sharpening your focus and improving your decision-making ability. This balanced state of being, in turn, boosts your emotional resilience, which ensures that you can effectively cope with stressful events in the future. Thoughtless awareness enables you to feel your inner energy and influence it. In other words, meditation allows you to actually intervene with your central nervous system to heal and improve yourself.
Stress has become an idea we toss around too casually; the terms stress and stressor are often conflated. What qualifies as a stressor? Anything that we perceive to be threatening to us in some way — whether physically or emotionally. But actual stress only occurs when we don't have confidence in our ability to deal with that stressor. In other words, stress is not the problem. The problem is having too much stress and not enough resources to cope with it. (Coping is any strategy that you use to deal with a situation that strains or overwhelms your emotional or physical resources.) For example, starting a new job (or any new endeavor, for that matter) can be stressful because we haven’t yet convinced ourselves that we can do the job. When does stress become dangerous? When it interferes with your ability, for an extended period of time, to live a normal life. For example, if you find yourself feeling out of control with no idea how to fix even relatively minor problems, these feelings of helplessness can cause you to feel fatigued, unable to concentrate, or irritable and angry. People who meditate regularly are actually activating a built-in stress management mechanism that helps them handle stressors on an ongoing basis. Stress relief, in fact, is the all-but-certain immediate health benefit that every meditator experiences. Negative emotions such as anger, anxiety, frustration and guilt begin to melt away. Emotional balance and a sense of self-control return.
How does Sahaja Meditation relieve stress and improve physical and mental health?
It's about energy -- the inner energy that's inside all of us, just waiting to be awakened. Influencing the inner energy, which is a feature unique to Sahaja Meditation, eases the meditator into the powerful state of thoughtless awareness. It's virtually spontaneous. It requires very little effort. Thoughtless awareness is an effective stress relieve strategy. The sense of inner calm you experience relaxes your mind and body while sharpening your focus and improving your decision-making ability. This balanced state of being, in turn, boosts your emotional resilience, which ensures that you can effectively cope with stressful events in the future. Thoughtless awareness enables you to feel your inner energy and influence it. In other words, meditation allows you to actually intervene with your central nervous system to heal and improve yourself.