Sahaja Yoga Meditation

Sahaja Yoga Meditation Technique

Spontaneously enter
Into the Present Moment!
 Sahaja Yoga’s
Corporate Meditation
What is Meditation ?
• NOT CONCENTRATION
Yang, effort, mental, work, thinking

• NOT RELAXATION
Yin, easing off, snoozing, emoting
 Meditation is….
A STATE OF MENTAL SILENCE
Primary characteristic ~ NOT THINKING!
i.e. thoughts drop away leaving you in

“Thoughtless Awareness”.
Why Meditation ?
• Stress = Poor Performance
absenteeism, staff turnover,
Distress, Disease, Dysfunction, (Death)

• Meditation = Peak Performance

(Flow States, The Zone or Zen State)
• calm, creative, positive, healthy
Peaceful, Perceptive, Productive
 Stress In the USA
• 27 percent of American workers rated
their jobs as the most stressful factor in their lives,
even more so than divorce or death
• Stress related disorders are becoming the
most prevalent reason for worker disability claims
• A recent survey of 46,000 + employees indicated that
medical care costs were 46% higher for those who reported
being stressed (18% of total sample)
• The cost of stress to the US workplace, in terms of lost
productivity, worker turnover, health and safety issues etc
has been estimated as a cost of…. $17 billion
 Work Stress
• Costly
• Treatable
• Preventable

• Treatment of stress after it has happened….

(very expensive) and too late?
• Before it happens…. prevention is better
(and much cheaper) than cure
Stress Management Interventions?

• Typical stress management programs =

- Reorganization
- Life management incl exercise/diet
- Time management
- Mental management
- Breathing, Relaxation and Visualization
and/or….the recent option of
- True Meditation ie ‘Mental Silence’
“I know the secret of Silence”
Mahatma Ghandhi

“Prepare our minds to listen to

The Voice of the Great Silence…”

“The divine radio is always singing

if we could only make ourselves
ready to listen to it. But it is
impossible to listen without Silence”
 BE INDIAN

• Culture & Traditions from Penance of

Great Sages
• Spiritual Growth (I) – Material Growth (W)
• Ultimate Goals of Life
• Absolute Truth - Identification
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Lived and worked with Mahatma Gandhi

- Studied medicine and psychology
- Married to Sir C.P. Shrivastava: Knighted by Queen,
Retired Secretary General of the UN Maritime Organization
- Started the Sahaja Yoga movement, charity, 80+ Countries
- Nobel Peace Prize nominee + Many major humanitarian awards,
- Has initiated schools, hospitals, humanitarian institutions
including Sahaja Yoga’s Corporate Meditation NFP organization
Sahaja Yoga Meditation
A traditional method, historical texts:
“Sahaja Nirvikalpa Samadhi”

Rediscovered,
modernized and developed by
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

is easy to learn,
is always taught free of charge,
is compatible with all religions,
is beyond ~ concentration, relaxation
or a new way of thinking.
Meditation Research
Program

Natural Therapies Unit

Royal Hospital for Women
and UNSW, Sydney, Australia
 Emotional Intelligence

• the capacity to deal effectively with one’s

own emotions and the emotions of others.

• in the workplace:-
- intelligently thinking WITH emotions;
perceiving, understanding, expressing
- and MANAGING emotions in a
professional and effective manner
 Meditation and EI
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 5 Aspects of EI research
• Emotional Recognition and Expression (in oneself)
The ability to identify one’s own feelings and emotional states, and the ability to
express those inner feelings to others.
• Understanding Others Emotions
The ability to identify and understand the emotions of others and those manifest in
external stimuli (i.e., workplace environments, staff meetings, literature, artwork
etc).
• Emotions Direct Cognition
The extent to which emotions and emotional knowledge is incorporated in decision-
making and/or problem solving.
• Emotional Management
The ability to manage positive and negative emotions within oneself and others.
• Emotional Control
The ability to effectively control strong emotional states experienced such as anger,
stress, anxiety and frustration.
Sahaja Yoga Meditation
What’s so different about it?

• Actualisation
• Verifiable science & self
• Proven Beneficial
• Time effective 5 mins x 2
• Cost free/effective
• The Silent State i.e.
•“You do not DO
meditation,
you are to be IN
meditation” Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
 the
past ~ present ~ future
The Channels
(nadis)

Sushumna Nadi or
CENTRAL Channel

Pingala Nadi or
SUN CHANNEL
Ida Nadi or
MOON CHANNEL
Yoga ~ Meditation ?
 Kundalini
• Kunda = ‘Coiled’ (3.5)
• Dormant in Sacrum bone
• Subtle energy power
• Power of Pure Desire
• ‘Ruh, Holy Spirit, Tao’
• Divine / Mothering energy
• Rises to give Yoga…. ie
connection with higher Self
The Chakras Sahastrara Chakra
(Centers of energy)
Silence ~ Integration
Agnya Chakra
Forgiveness, Humility
The Ego and Super-ego

Vishuddhi Chakra
Communication Type/Style
Diplomacy, Detachment,
Collective consciousness
Heart Chakra
Joy-Spirit, Compassion,
Security, Responsibility
Nabhi Chakra & Void
Peace, Self-Mastery,
Self-satisfaction
Swadisthan Chakra
Creativity, Discretion
Kundalini
Muladhara Chakra
Wisdom, Innocence,
Stability
 the Razor’s Edge

Yoga-meditation connects us with

The Present Moment

in
“Thoughtless Awareness”
 Is Sahaja Yoga Meditation
Good For Business?
• We know from existing research it…………
• reduces Stress
• focuses the Mind
• improves Physical Health
• improves Emotional Intelligence
• improves Psychological Health
• raises Emotional Mood Climate
• facilitates Better Learning

• We believe it enhances Effectiveness

• We know IBM’ers Think It Is Very Good
 Participant feedback from IBM Coporate Stressbuster- April 11, 2002
Workshop and data analysis by Dr Ramesh Manocha

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 Some central ideas from the
StressBuster presentations :

What was learned by studying meditation and disease states

• Stressors are personal, yet they have a common pathway

• Thoughts are of just two types : futuristic & retrospective

• Reality, and optimal performance, are in The Present

• True meditation is a scientifically verifiable experience

• Meditation enhances well-being, reduces disease states

• Anyone can learn how to meditate, and they should

 Why should Co’s use
Corporate Meditation?
• Stress - Impact and Cost (Measured and Unmeasured)

• Productivity, Absenteeism, Staff Turnover, Suicide

• “Duty of Care” by Managers (Legislated responsibility in Australia)

• Individual and interpersonal effectiveness (Teaming & Clients)

• To contribute to the betterment of society (Corporate citizenship)

•To help to create a more nurturing, balanced and innovative

‘high performance culture’
 Corporate Implementation ?

• Two approaches:

1. Experiment with the introduction of meditation

at leadership level, and then cascade it down
through the departments to volunteers.

2. As above, with a research dimension for the

scientific study of the impact of meditation on
performance in a business environment
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Meditation

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 Qualifications

•Are You A Truth Seeker ?

•Do You Have Pure Desire to Know the Truth ?
•Are You ready to experiment with Truth
without any Fear and with Open Mind ?
•With whom you are identifying yourself ?
•It is Our Birth Right to Know the Truth and
lead Truthful Life.
 Our Knowledge

• Awareness of Our Heart, Lungs, Kidneys,

Liver etc. in our Body
• Awareness of subtle body
•Who am I ?
• I am nothing but ’’Atma” !
Medically Known as
Limbic area of Brain
Optic Charisma
Cervical Plexus

Cardiac Plexus

Solar or Colic Plexus

Aortic Plexus
Pelvic Plexus
Left & Rt.Sympathetic
Para Sympathetic
 Keep your right hand on your
heart, close your eyes and sincerely
repeat a few times in your heart:

“I am the pure spirit.

I am not this mind, this body, this
ego, these conditionings.
I am the pure spirit.”
 For the energy to pass through your
centres you have to get rid of your
guilt.. You have to forgive yourself.

So now put your right hand on

the left side of your neck and
repeat several times in your
heart:

“I am not guilty...
I am the pure spirit, so
how can I be guilty?
I am not guilty at all.”
 Now when we have
forgiven ourselves we
should forgive others...

Put your right hand on your forehead, bend your

head a little and sincerely from your heart say:

“I forgive.
I forgive everybody,
everything.”
 Self Realisation can not be
forced on you.
You have to desire it...

Express your desire by putting your right hand

on the last centre - on top of your head - Press it..
Bend your head a little forward. And sincerely ask The Energy
to awaken in you.

“Please awaken in me..

Please give me my
Self Realisation.”
What to do next ?
• Meditation (Yoga ) is a State to be felt and
Experienced by individuals
• Every day morning and evening – meditate for 15
minutes
• Foot soaking in Salt Water regularly
• Weekly once, participate in collective meditation
in your town
• Discuss your problems, if any, with other Sahaja
Yogis and know the solutions
• Give Sahaja Yoga Self-Realization to Others
 Thanks
Sahaja Yoga
Visit : www.sahajayoga.org
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