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What Sahaja Yoga Meditation Can Do For You

Sahaja Yoga Meditation is good for heart, mind, body, and soul. It's all about energy — Inner Energy — and everyone has it. Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a simple technique that lets you tap into that energy and harness its power to become balanced and connected to yourself — emotionally, physically, and spiritually. It's easy. Anyone can do it. And classes are always free.

Here are just a few specific benefits Sahaja Yoga Meditation offers…
• Immediate stress relief and long-term stress management
• Improve physical and emotional health and long-term resilience
• Improve overall personality and relationships
• Balance personal and professional responsibilities
• Take control of your life; control negative emotions such as anger, fear, anxiety, guilt
• Improve cognitive functioning: focus, clarity, decision-making and problem-solving skills, enhanced creativity

What is Sahaja Yoga Meditation?

How does Sahaja Yoga Meditation differ from other popular forms of meditation? On the surface, Sahaja Yoga Meditation has a lot in common with other forms of meditation. But what's unique to Sahaja Yoga is the ability to awaken and connect to your Inner Energy and to influence the movement of this energy throughout your body's energy centers to achieve physical and emotional well-being and ultimately establish a spiritual reality.

How does energy flow work? Inner Energy flows through each of your energy centers or chakras, energizing, nurturing, and balancing them. Think of your Inner Energy system as a flute with seven holes — each hole representing a chakra, and your Inner Energy representing the air that is blown through the flute. If the flute's holes are unobstructed, the flute can produce melodious, harmonious music in the hands of a skilled musician. And so it is with your chakras. When they're clear and free of obstructions, your Inner Energy flows smoothly through your body, achieving a harmonious balance.

Once your Inner Energy has been awakened, you'll find that Sahaja Yoga Meditation makes it easy to fall into the state of meditation, rather than having to perform meditation, as is the case with many other forms of meditation. Most forms of meditation don't allow you to easily actualize the energy on Day 1. Providing you with the ability to harness your Inner Energy is the reason that Sahaja Yoga Meditation enables you to achieve the powerful state of thoughtless awareness, quickly and effortlessly.

What is thoughtless awareness? Think of it as purified attention, a state of maximum energy flow during which your mind is calmed and gradually emptied of all distractions and negative thoughts and feelings. Sahaja Yoga Meditation techniques allow you to extend that fraction-of-a-second gap between one thought and the next to remain in a thoughtless state for as long as you wish. Thoughtless awareness — mental silence — is a much-needed break from the thoughts that constantly bombard us all day long.

Recent studies conducted by Dr. Ramesh Manocha suggest that thoughtless awareness or mental silence has more impact, experientially and physiologically, than simple relaxation or generic meditation. Sahaja Yoga Meditation's mental silence approach to meditation, when compared to a “non-mental silence” approach, was shown to be, on average, twice as effective in reducing work-related stress, general depressive symptoms, and anxiety. Sahaja Yoga is much more than just feeling peaceful and relaxed. If you choose to explore it in depth, it can be a transformative path to achieving your highest potential, reaching a higher plane of knowledge and awareness, and living in peace and contentment.

What to Expect from a Sahaja Yoga Meditation Class

First, all classes are free, no strings attached. There's nothing to buy, now or ever. It's against Sahaja Yoga principles to charge money for helping others awaken the Inner Energy that we were all born with. Sahaja Yoga instructors feel that spirituality should not be equated with money and commerce.

And Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a "family practice." We welcome all ages. Walk-ins are welcome.

Overview. The primary focus of Sahaja Yoga Meditation classes, especially for beginners, is awakening and experiencing the energy with the goal of achieving thoughtless awareness or mental silence. We'll provide a brief overview of the subtle energy system so that you can understand the sensations you feel within your body and correlate your experience to real physical and mental attributes. But experience is always valued over knowledge. In other words, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, not in learning how to make elaborate pudding recipes or discussing how wonderful the pudding tastes.

If you continue to practice Sahaja Yoga Meditation, you'll discover and experience, step by step, your own energy centers and their associated qualities. Once you're able to consistently feel the energy and have experienced noticeable differences in your cognitive and emotional states, you can explore more advanced techniques, such as clearing and healing the chakras. You'll learn how the energy centers play a vital role in our evolutionary process of becoming better human beings and experience holistic improvement on all planes — physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual. In the ultimate and most advanced phases, you may choose to use Sahaja Yoga Meditation to discover your inner spiritual self and how you can evolve to higher realms of spirituality. For many, Sahaja Yoga is much more than just a temporary solution or quick relief. It is a journey, rather than a destination.

Ultimately, Sahaja Yoga classes can provide a complete course on meditation and spirituality, which you can continue to experiment with and verify at every step. Just as no two life experiences are exactly alike, no two Sahaja Yoga experiences are exactly alike. You can explore at your own pace, in your own way. There are no rules, restrictions, or rituals. Sahaja Yoga is entirely Do-It-Yourself. And we are always available to help.

There's no pressure to continue attending classes. You can come once or twice and never come back again or you can attend classes weekly. Many find that attending classes weekly is just what they need to recharge their batteries.

About our sessions. Classes are conducted in a peaceful environment; soothing background music helps facilitate meditation. Meditations are guided by instructors and are designed to accommodate the collective experience. Individual assistance (both beginner and advanced) is always available. While the actual practice of meditation forms the core of our sessions, sessions may also include discussions of, for example, specific aspects of the subtle energy system. But it's not all "serious." There's also plenty of opportunity to enjoy casual conversations and share experiences with others.

The power of collective meditation. Collective meditation in an optimized environment can be exhilarating and rejuvenating. In fact, generally, the larger the group, the better the experience. Once you have awakened your Inner Energy, you may find that the benefits of meditation are compounded when you meditate in a group of people who are "on the same frequency;" i.e., connecting to the collective universal energy at the same time and place. Think of it as a network of computer servers linked to each other… each can access and share resources of the other, and as a group, they form a powerful network of resources. Collective meditation is also likely to help you progress faster in the initial weeks, as compared to meditating at home, alone.

Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions:
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