Fri, Feb 20 · 8:00 PM PST
## Friday Evening Meditation Details...
Dear Meditators,
Welcome to the Meditation Program ! If you are a beginner, these are the details that you need to know. Please read the whole description carefully.
Method of Conduct...
Methods of Meditation...
Breathing Meditation (January to April under 03 steps)
Vipassana Meditation (May to October under six steps)
Loving Kindness Meditation (November to December under 02 steps)
Objectives...
To develop inner calmness, peace, happiness & Concentration
To gain ability to understand things as they actually are with one's own experience
To cultivate empathy, loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy & balanced mind
Date & Time... Friday from 8.00 pm to 9.30 pm
Daily Schedule...
8.00 Welcome to Join the Meditation SessionBreathing Meditation - Method 01
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Meeting ID - 76179904256
• What to bring
• Important to know
Peace & Happiness are priceless. Therefore, we never sell meditation and it is taught with the honest & Pure intention to help you. Everyone from various backgrounds are welcome to join without any discrimination.
Donations are welcome. It is supportive to run the Meditation Center.
Try your best to come on time.
Make sure to switch off your mobile phones during the meditation session.
If you couldn't attend any of the days, please watch the recording of that program via our Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@bhantechandima/streams
May you be well and happy!
Benefits of Meditation
Increases Positive Emotions & Decreases Negative Emotions
Increases vagal tone which increases positive emotions & feelings of social connection
Healing
Decreases Migraines
Decreases Chronic Pain
Decreases PTSD
Decreases Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE BRAIN We know that the brain is shaped by our activities. Regularly practicing meditation activates and strengthens areas of the brain responsible for empathy & emotional intelligence.
Activates empathy & emotional processing in the brain
Increases gray matter volume
THE STRESS RESPONSE Meditation also benefits your psychophysiology & makes it more resilient.
Increases respiratory Sinus Arrythmia (RSA)
Slows Biological Aging
Makes you a more helpful person
Increases Compassion
A recent review of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) concludes that Meditation may be the most effective practice for increasing compassion (Boellinghaus, Jones & Hutton, 2012)
Increases Empathy Similarly, Klimecki, Leiberg, Lamm and Singer (2013) found that Loving Kindness Meditation training increased participants’ empathic responses to the distress of others, but also increased positive affective experiences, even in response to witnessing others in distress.
Decreases Your Bias towards others A recent study (Kang, Gray & Dovido, 2014) found that compared to a closely matched active control condition, 6 weeks of Loving Kindness Meditation training decreased implicit bias against minorities.
Increases Social Connection A study by Kok et al (2013) found that those participants in Meditation interventions who report experiencing more positive emotions also reported more gains in perception of social connection as well.
Immediate & Long Term Impact The nice thing about Meditation is that it is effective in both immediate and small doses (i.e. instant gratification) but that it also has long-lasting and enduring effects.
It Is Effective Even in Small Doses Another study – Hutcherson, Seppala and Gross (2008)
It has Long-Term Impacts A study by Cohn et al (2011) found that 35% of participants of a Meditation intervention who continued to meditate and experience enhanced positive emotions 15 months after the intervention. Positive emotions correlated positively with the number of minutes spent meditating daily.
