How To Get To A Happier Life.

​Dear All,

Here's how sahaja yoga meditation fits into your aspirations for a happier life. Whatever it is that motivates you to get out of bed in the morning - work, family etc. has been deeply thought about by the famous American psychologist, Abraham Maslow and organised into a neat pyramid, shown below, called the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs.

This shows that once health, housing, family/relationships, work/money needs are met then people start thinking about what Maslow calls 'self-actualization'.  Read this as 'self-realization'.

On Maslow's pyramid the movement is bottom-up: only once a lower need is met will people try and achieve a higher need.

The problem with that is that like the false promise of multi-level marketing, you may never ever get to the top of the pyramid. Life is such that it is easy to get stuck at any of the lower stages and go round and round, leading to what Mick Jagger sang as: "Can't Get No Satisfaction!".

Sahaja yoga solves this. There's the evidence of many peoples' experience that once you begin to meditate regularly there's a 'trickle-down' or top-down effect: stress goes away, health improves, relationships improve, work/money improves.

Although it would take a small book to explain how this is happening, the phenomenon is captured in a one-line quote from the Bhagavad Gita: "Yoga kshemam vahamyaham"  meaning 'Once you achieve yoga(self-realization), everything else is taken care of'.

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See you at group meditation tomorrow.

Regards