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How meditation can do much more than achieve work-life balance
Recently, work-life balance has been an important topic of discussion for many organizations. In close relation to this, CEOs and influential personalities have expressed a number of viewpoints around the optimal number of working hours for employees in a week.
For some years, some experts have suggested that a four-day work week instead of five might provide a better work-life balance.
Then suddenly, opposing viewpoints recently mentioned the opposite—that for someone to be successful and impactful, a 90-hour work week might be the best, setting off another storm of reactions and responses on the internet.
And then, seemingly wiser people commented that the quality of work or outcomes mattered the most. Or productivity. So, it does not matter as much as the number of hours someone works in a week.
Since meditation is closely linked to stress management and quality of life and health, it has a lot to offer in this debate around work-life balance and wellness in the workplace and one’s career.
With decades of experience in meditation and thousands of practitioners who have had long careers, we offer a simple yet powerful solution to this question of working hours and work-life balance.
Does your life feel like it’s on a treadmill?
A treadmill is a great workout machine. It is designed to keep you walking once you turn it on. And you can do nothing but walk or run on it; if you stop while it’s running, you will fall. Suppose someone sets the treadmill at a pace that you aren’t comfortable and you can’t turn it off either. How would it feel? You must keep walking and running at an uncomfortable pace with no control and no ability to get off.
We go through phases when it can feel like our entire life is on a treadmill. And here’s how that can feel:
You’re busy day in and day out, with very little time left for activities you would like to do.
You can’t control or choose your time.
You are into activities that do not feel productive, meaningful, or enjoyable.
You cannot stop the monotony; you are too scared to change your life.
Your commitments are crushing you.
You wonder how long this will continue and don’t see a way out.
You can feel the stress and some anxiety and don’t see a way out.
Meditation can help, and we are here to help you change your life positively.
A summer for unlocking your spiritual potential
Meditation is a long-term effort. Spiritual meditation is a lifetime achievement where we discover our true inner selves and guide our lives to stay true to what it desires.
Consistency and patience are the keys to success. Along with that, an insatiable thirst for discovering our deepest layers.
Just as each of us is involved in introspection about our spiritual growth, the Sahaja Online team decided to introspect on the types of programs that might help our attendees get the maximum benefit in getting varied experiences routinely from their meditation practice.
We realized that we all need more profound meditations and longer sessions to get into the depths of exploring and applying spiritual concepts. At the same time, we undertsand that weekdays can be busy, and a quick and strong dose of meditation can really help.
In keeping with this, we have lined up several new formats and topics starting in May.
The best opportunity to explore your spirituality
As the new year ushers in another year of hope and exciting possibilities, an often ignored part of our lives is our spiritual goals for the year. There are many reasons for this. The most common among them is that there are too many facets in our lives, all needing some sort of focus and planning as each new year begins. At other times, we feel excited about doing something new and changing our lives. So we make changes to our lives voluntarily.
It’s hard to revisit our spiritual state with complete honesty and prioritize an improvement this year. That’s because the self-assessment of our subtler spiritual state can be challenging. Spirituality is an ocean and the deepest of them all. Since we cannot know its depths, we cannot also know our position relative to the most profound state possible.
That’s where Sahaja comes in. Through many of our tools, approaches and guidance, we can help make a big difference in your spiritual journey this year.
How meditation influences your brain and nervous system
Most people who seek out Sahaja are in it for deep spiritual benefits. But once in a while, it’s great to know that a powerful form of meditation like Sahaja has several benefits proven by science and to understand the intricacies of how meditation works within us.
One such intriguing area is the impact meditation has on our neurochemicals.