Meditation helps with Anxiety
Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events. People with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder tend to always expect disaster and can’t stop worrying about health, money, family, work or school. In people with anxiety disorder, the worry often is unrealistic or out of proportion for the situation. Daily life becomes a constant state of worry, fear and dread. Eventually, the anxiety so dominates the person’s thinking that it interferes with daily functioning, including work, school, social activities and relationships.
The symptoms of Anxiety include:
- Excessive, ongoing worry and tension
- An unrealistic view of problems
- Restlessness or a feeling of being "edgy"
- Irritability
- Muscle tension
- Headaches
- Sweating
- Difficulty concentrating
- Nausea
- The need to go to the bathroom frequently
- Tiredness
- Trouble falling or staying asleep
- Trembling
- Being easily startled
Benefits of meditation in Anxiety
A study conducted at the University of Vienna found a significant beneficial effect of Sahaja Yoga Meditation on state and trait anxiety in healthy adults.
A group of 37 adults was taught Sahaja Yoga Meditation for 8 weeks and compared to a group of 32 adults who received no intervention and a group of 32 adults who had to listen to music of Mozart.
The group who received meditation showed a significant reduction in their levels of state and of trait anxiety compared to both controls and to the group that listened to Mozart.
http://www.meditationresearch.co.uk
Hackl, W. (1995) Die Auswirkungen von Sahaja Yoga auf das Drogenkonsumverhalten (The effect of Sahaja Yoga on drug consumption). Doctoral thesis submitted to the University in Vienna, 1995.
Hola me gustaría saber dónde podría, encontrar el libro de meditación para la ayuda con la ansiedad de " SAHAJA YOGA " del DR Romesh Monocha
Dec 11, 2009
Holaaa:
Soy Española y me metí en esta pag por saber cosas a cerca del ” YOGA ” Y sus efectos tan saludables.
Un saludo.
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1ardilla
Sep 23, 2010
Hola, no se si hay un libro pero hay este sitio web, si entiendes ingles: http://www.researchingmeditation.org/
En español hay este libro Autocuracion Sahaja, que se puede comprar de aqui:
http://www.liebremarzo.com/libros/autocuracion_sahaja.htm
Mucha suerte!
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Reinaldo
March 4th, 2015
Gracias. Muchas gracias por la información en Español.
Hay un nuevo link para el libro: http://www.liebremarzo.com/catalogo/autocuracion-sahaja Y adicionalmente en ese link refieren a una página en español: http://www.sahajayoga.es/
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Cosmicsea7
Feb 28, 2012
Can this also help people with Social Anxiety Disorder?
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MERVE
November 26th, 2012
ı have anxiety 🙁 ı hope it will help
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Christine
Aug 27, 2013
I agree on this article. Anxiety is cause sometimes with your daily routine or life events. Sometimes, we just need to stay calm and enjoy life.
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5Mark
Apr 8, 2014
Meditation has become a important part of my daily life. I suffer from anxiety attacks myself.
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Erwan
November 16th, 2014
Dear Mark,
is your anxiety better today?
Warm wishes,
Erwan
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ashwini
Sep 3, 2015
hi…how to overcome anxiety problem with sahjaa yoga? i worry a lot about my family’s health and future. i get unrealistic thoughts about my family members. whole day i get restlessness. i have been doing sahaja yoga for 2yrs still i have not come over anxiety problem… please help me
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Erwan
September 14th, 2015
Dear Ashwini,
the very best for you would be to attend a Sahaj center free of charge and get to practice with long time practitioners able to guide you through:
http://www.freemeditation.com/meditation-classes/
Let us know how it goes,
Warm wishes
Erwan
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