Learn to Meditate

Session 3: Stress-Free Attitudes and Peace of Mindthrough Meditation

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From The Last Two Sessions

• Remember your answers to “Who am I?” and “What do I want to be?”

• What is Values Meditation?

What to Expect in This Session

• To see stress in a different light!

• Developing stress-free attitudes

• De-stressing using a meditation technique

Values and Stress

• Remember exercise reviewing some event where your behavior was not the best

• Were you under stress?• Values clarity reduces stress • Let us learn more about stress and stress

relief.

What is stress?

• Is it a cause or an effect? – Physical – Mental– Emotional• Or something deeper?– A trend• A weakness?

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Let us read the next slide and introspect for 5 minutes

• A gap between desires and capability

– between goals and means

– too much to do or pay, too many to please

• A state of confusion

– Inability to prioritize, give and take or compromise and accept

– Values conflict

• Due to chaotic partnership between self and the society

IS STRESS…

Its Effects

• Physical– Chemical and hormonal imbalance

– Health deteriorates, heart attack, shattered dreams

• Mental– Loss of poise, balance

– Anger and emotional problems

– You can imagine the rest

Exercise

From the point of view of stress as a symptom of some inner imbalance

• 1. Think about the causes of stress in your life

• 2. List some ways in which you can reduce or cope with stress

Stress-Free Lifestyle

• What makes for a stress-free lifestyle?

• Simplicity is the panacea for stress relief -- not prayer, not any other external form of help

• Aspirational set of goals consistent with values and behaviors

• It’s ultimately about managing our own self• So, How do we manage our self?

Best Ways to Self-Management

• What is the one thing we can do, doing which changes everything else in our life?

• Walking, self-reflecting, meditating as habits• Seek someone who can help us (not judge us)

- lover, friend, church or support group, priest, mentor

Practical Session

• Let us meditate on “How to develop peace of mind” for 15 minutes

Deepening The Experience• When you return home, think about all that transpired in this

session

• Try to distill a few key ideas and deepen them

• Please continue to meditate on an idea that would increase or contribute to your peace of mind. Meditate for 10 mins, twice daily

• Same place, same time if possible

• Write down any ideas, observations or Aha! moments

Next Week

• Topic: Need for A Meditation System

• A few systems discussed

• We will meditate for 15 minutes in class.