liberty fall 2009 week 2

8 Week Course in Meditation

Class 2The Sahaja Approach to Inner Balance

How is it going?

Updrades

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Agenda

Anatomy of Stress

Collective Foot-soaking

The Subtle System

What’s “Sahaja”?

The Pressure Cooker

http://www.apa.org/releases/stressproblem.html

Key Findings APA Survey 2 007 STRESS: Portrait of a National Pressure Cooker Stress is a fact of life (agreed 79 percent of people), but according to survey responses, Americans routinely experience what they believe are higher than healthy levels of stress. One-third of people in the U.S. regularly report experiencing extreme levels of stress (32 percent), and nearly one in five (17 percent) report that they experienced their highest level of stress 15 or more days per month. Even more alarming, nearly half of Americans (48 percent) believe that their stress has increased over the past five years. Google keyword “stress in america”

Effect of Stress: Good & Adverse

Where do you see the effect of stress in your life?APA 2007 Survey

Coping with stress

Autonomic nervous system innervation, showing the sympathetic and parasympathetic (craniosacral) systems, in red and blue, respectively

The actions of the parasympathetic nervous system can be summarized as "rest and digest" (as opposed to the "fight-or-flight" effects of the sympathetic nervous system). It is also quite the opposite for the sympathetic nervous system.

Coping Mechanisms

Applying the insights

Being your own master•Selecting suitable relaxation tools as per your own sensitivity

•No Crash, Sustainable, No Long Term Harm

•Excitor v/s Genuine Stress Reducers

e.g. Caffiene v/s Good Sleep Hygiene e.g. Good Music versus not-so-good music (UK Commuters / Wagner)

Foot-soak

Meditation: Balancing Channels

“Sahaja” The Living Growth

Time Lapse Movie

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