Significance of Sahaja Yoga Meditation in reducing Academic STRESS

 

Background of Study:

The Indian school education system is textbook-oriented that focuses on rote memorization of lessons and demands long hours of systematic study every day. The elaborate study routines that are expected by high school students span from the morning to till late evening hours, leaving little time for socialization, recreation, play games and sports by full strength.

Objective of Study:

The present study was conducted with a view to see the effect of Sahaja Yoga meditation on stress among school children.

Materials and Method:

Non-equivalent control group design was used for this experiment. The participants were 8th grade students from a school located in Mumbai. The students were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. Experimental group received the treatment of Sahaja Yoga meditation program for 6 weeks, whereas the control group did not receive any treatment. Both groups were free to do their daily routine activities. Stress was assessed using a questionnaire before and after 6 weeks of Sahaja Yoga meditation program.

Statistical Analysis:

Collected data were analyzed with the help of the standard statistical technique t-test to conclude the investigation.

Results:

The results of the study showed a significant difference in academic stress (p < 0.05) after 6 weeks of Sahaja Yoga meditation program. However, there was no significant improvement in academic stress (p > 0.05) in the control group.

Conclusion:

Sahaja Yoga meditation program is helpful to manage the academic stress of school girls.

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Message for Humanity

A MESSAGE FOR HUMANITY TODAY

The world has never spoken so quickly,

and perhaps never listened so little.

Across invisible networks, billions of human beings are connected,

yet the human heart often remains alone.

We have taught machines to think,

sent our voices across oceans in an instant,

and gathered almost all human knowledge beneath our fingertips.

Yet we have not learned how to silence hatred.

Nations speak of peace while preparing for conflict.

Religions speak of God while His children quarrel over His name.

Prosperity grows beside hunger.

Information multiplies while wisdom struggles to be heard.

And Mother Earth quietly bears the weight of our desires.

Perhaps the great crisis of our age is not merely political, economic, technological or environmental.

Perhaps it is a crisis of consciousness.

For what shall humanity gain if it becomes master of the machine,

but remains a prisoner of anger, greed, fear and division?

Shri Mataji said:

“They have never known the power of love. They have only known the power of hatred. Power of love is so powerful, so dynamic.”

These words seem to stand before our century like a mirror.

For hatred is loud.

Love seldom needs to shout.

Hatred divides the world into us and them.

Love discovers that beneath our languages, nations, colours and beliefs,

the same human longing is seeking peace.

And perhaps humanity's next evolution will not be measured by faster computers, taller cities or more powerful weapons.

It will be measured by whether man can discover the Spirit within himself.

Shri Mataji said:

“First your yoga, first unite. Unite with the Spirit.”

For when man becomes united within,

his relationship with the world begins to change.

Another person's suffering is no longer distant.

Another nation is no longer merely foreign.

Another faith is no longer necessarily a threat.

Another human being is no longer merely another.

We begin to discover the family hidden beneath all our divisions.

Humanity has tried changing systems.

It has changed rulers, borders, currencies and technologies.

Perhaps now it must transform the human being.

Because peace written upon paper cannot endure

if war continues within the heart.

And no technology, however intelligent,

can substitute for an awakened human consciousness.

The question before our generation is therefore not only:

What kind of world shall we build?

It is:

What kind of human beings shall inhabit it?

If we awaken only greater power,

we may become more dangerous.

But if we awaken the Spirit,

power may become compassion,

knowledge may become wisdom,

and freedom may become responsibility.

The world does not suffer from a shortage of intelligence.

It suffers from a shortage of awakened hearts.

And perhaps the revolution humanity now needs

will arrive without armies and without conquest

quietly,

within millions of human beings discovering that the peace they demanded from the world

had first been waiting within themselves.

Change the consciousness,

and perhaps the world will follow.