The Key to your success - starting your day Alive & Well!

Dear All,

Have you noticed how, the more energised you feel in the morning, the better the day seems to go.

That morning boost could come from a cold shower, exercise ,eating the right food for breakfast  or doing your 10 minutes of meditation to put the tiger in your tank which sets you up perfectly for the day ahead.

As it has been said, 'the first wealth is health' and the nabhi chakra is particularly associated with health and healing. This is why, as you may have noticed, we try and pay some attention to the nabhi chakra at the group meditation on Tuesdays. Hopefully, you're noticing how much better you feel when the vibes flow from sahasarara chakra at top of head into the nabhi chakra in the stomach.

In traditional chinese medicine and martial arts, the energy center in the stomach is called ' dan tien' / 'field of elixir' and is known as the centre of the life force and vitality. It's perhaps no surprise then that the effects of daily sahaja yoga meditation first show up in the feeling of physical health and well-being.

This has been documented in research done by long-term sahaja yoga meditators who also happen to be medical practitioners. One of these doctors is Dr Ramesh Manocha at the University of Sydney in Australia, who has put together the Researching Meditation blog , showing how sahaja yoga meditation(SYM) has helped cure stress, anxiety, depression and other psychosomatic ailments.

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The benefits of regular meditation are sufficiently validated now that quite a number of large organisations including Microsoft* and Google have corporate meditation sessions in the workplace. Dr Ramesh Manocha ran a session for some television studio staff - see what their reaction was like : Sunrise TV staff do some sahaja yoga meditation - 3 minutes

Here's a TV interview Shri Mataji did with Lorraine Kelly on GMTV:  GMTV Southbank Interview - 3 minutes

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Speaking of TV, the photo at top is from 1983 in Los Angeles on the set of the TV show 'Live and Well'

See you at group meditation on Tuesday.

Regards

*Microsoft - participated in a large European Union funded project, RESPONSE, which was organised and run by long-term sahaja yoga meditator and former INSEAD professor, Maurizio Zollo (below) which showed how the innovative use of meditation as part of corporate executive training led, amongst other things, to better decisions in Corporate Social Responsibilty(CSR).

​"Maurizio Zollo is the Dean's Professor in Strategic Management of the Sustainable Enterprise, in the Strategy Institute, at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and the director of the Center for Research in Organization and Management (CROMA). Zollo holds PhD and MSc degrees in managerial science and applied economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and the Laurea degree in economics from Bocconi. Zollo previously had appointments in strategic management at INSEAD, Fountainbleau, France, the Wharton School, and the Advanced Institute of Management in the United Kingdom, and was visiting professor/scholar at MIT for the 2012-14 academic years. Best known for work in the field of strategic management on mergers and acquisitions, dynamic capabilities, and organizational learning, Zollo has in more recent years turned his attention to how organizations learn to change in a responsible way. He headed up a European-Union-funded project called RESPONSE, and currently directs an innovative global research initiative called GOLDEN, the Global Organizational Learning and Development Network for Sustainability, which brings together people from around the world to study how companies make the transition to sustainability successfully. Editor of the European Management Review, and former president of the European Academy of Management, Zollo has published nearly thirty articles in prestigious academic journals, ten managerial publications, and two books, as an academic, and previously was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co., a major consulting firm, an associate for Kidder Peabody Italia, and a financial analyst for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets."  -from the book Intellectual Shamans by Sandra Waddock