Friday Meditation Program - 2024

Dear Meditators,

Welcome to the Meditation Program - 2024! If you are a beginner, these are the details that you need to know. Please read the whole description carefully.

Method of Conduct...
In Person & Online

Methods of Meditation...

1. Breathing Meditation (January to April under 03 steps)
2. Vipassana Meditation (May to October under six steps)
3. Loving Kindness Meditation (November to December under 02 steps)

Objectives...

1. To develop inner calmness, peace, happiness & Concentration
2. To gain ability to understand things as they actually are with one's own experience
3. To cultivate empathy, loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy & balanced mind

Date & Time...
On every Friday from 8.30 pm to 9.45 pm

Daily Schedule...

8.25 Welcome to Join the Meditation Session
8.30 Greetings, Introduction & Meditation Instructions
8.40 Vipassana Meditation - Method 03
9.20 Further instructions on the Meditation technique and spiritual
development
9.45 Farewell with blessings and smiles

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Zoom Link:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76179904256?pwd=dDBKczFpT2taN2NRZlYyUnZWZjNjdz09
Meeting ID - 76179904256
pass-code - yY7irk

• What to bring
Nothing except a good heart and a smile

• Important to know

1. Peace & Happiness are priceless. Therefore, we never sell meditation and it is taught with the honest & Pure intention to help you. Everyone from various backgrounds are welcome to join without any discrimination.
2. Donations are welcome. It is supportive to run the Meditation Center.
3. Try your best to come on time.
4. Make sure to switch off your mobile phones during the meditation session.
5. If you couldn't attend any of the days, please watch the recording of that program via our Youtube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@bhantechandima/streams

Benefits of Meditation
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1. Increases Positive Emotions & Decreases Negative Emotions
2. Increases vagal tone which increases positive emotions & feelings of social connection

# Healing

3. Decreases Migraines
4. Decreases Chronic Pain
5. Decreases PTSD
6. Decreases Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders

# EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE BRAIN

We know that the brain is shaped by our activities. Regularly practicing meditation activates and strengthens areas of the brain responsible for empathy & emotional intelligence.

7. Activates empathy & emotional processing in the brain
8. Increases gray matter volume

# THE STRESS RESPONSE

Meditation also benefits your psychophysiology & makes it more resilient.

9. Increases respiratory Sinus Arrythmia (RSA)
10. Slows Biological Aging
11. Makes you a more helpful person
12. Increases Compassion

A recent review of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) concludes that Meditation may be the most effective practice for increasing compassion (Boellinghaus, Jones & Hutton, 2012)

# Increases Empathy

Similarly, Klimecki, Leiberg, Lamm and Singer (2013) found that Loving Kindness Meditation training increased participants’ empathic responses to the distress of others, but also increased positive affective experiences, even in response to witnessing others in distress.

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