Mental Health Crisis?
The Guardian reported: 29% rise in referrals for first suspected episode of psychosis between April 2019 and April 2021. Is it just the Covid restrictions, or is it becoming more and more difficult to live a meaningful and fulfilled life in our society?
Yoga and meditation are no substitute for a meaningful life in a society based on standards and virtues which enable and promote people’s life visions and which values people’s contributions to the community in diverse ways. But yoga and meditation do help to cope with challenges and the lack or obstruction of vision and opportunity for development and spiritual maturing. They might even help to bring ourselves to work towards the society we want to live in.
Meditation balances the variety of energies and tendencies in us, calms and clears our mental and emotional faculties, promotes processing of experience and challenges, and opens connections for inspiration and vision. Physical yoga provides the energy, vitality, courage and endurance to act on our intuition.
Effects of Kirtan Kriya
Research has shown these effects of practising Kirtan Kriya:
- Live longer, stay healthier, feel happier, think more clearly
- Enhances brain functioning and mental health
- Eases or reverses depression, anxiety, memory loss, cognitive impairment
- Prevents Alzheimer’s disease and geriatric depression
- Decreases mood aberration, improves mood
- Improves cerebral blood flow
- Increases brain connectivity
- Improves memory and ability to focus and multitask
- Improves visuospatial memory performance and verbal memory
- Increases activity in the frontal lobe (sharpens attention, concentration and focus)
- Replenishes vital neurotransmitters and brain chemicals, such as acetylcholine, norepinephrine, and dopamine (enhances general brain functioning)
- Increases energy levels
- Improves sleep quality, reduces stress (lower cortisol levels)
- Improves short- and long-term psychological health and spiritual well-being
- No side effects
Meditate with me
We loosen up and liberate the habitual pathways of our mind-emotion-body system with this flagship of Kundalini Meditation.
This meditation brings a total mental balance to the individual psyche. Vibrating the sound on each fingertip alternates the electrical polarities. Index and ring fingers are considered negative relative to the other fingers. This causes a balance in the electromagnetic projection of the aura.
The five primal sounds S, T, N, M, and A are derived from the seed mantra “Sat Nam” and are describing a complete cycle of creation/action through the stages of infinity, life, death, and transformation. Each time the mudra is closed by joining the thumb with a finger, the ego seals the effect of that mudra in the consciousness.
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To find more classes with shorter versions of Kirtan Kriya, go to Vimeo and search for “Kirtan.”
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Kirtan Kriya Research
Popular Science:
[1] The Incredible Power of Kirtan Kriya: A Conversation on Brain Health and Longevity with Dr. Chris Walling:
https://kripalu.org/resources/incredible-power-kirtan-kriya-conversation-brain-health-and-longevity-dr-chris-walling
(in Kripalu – Center for Yoga & Health)
[2] Yoga and Kirtan Kriya Meditation Bolster Brain Functioning:
https://psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/prime-your-gray-cells/201606/yoga-and-kirtan-kriya-meditation-bolster-brain-functioning
(in Psychology Today)
[3] Why Yoga reduces stress:
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/yoga-reduces-stress-now-it-s-known-why
(in UCLA Health)
[4] To reduce pre-Alzheimer’s cognitive impairment, get to the yoga mat:
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/reduce-risk-alzheimers-skip-lumosity-get-onto-yoga-mat
(in UCLS Newsroom)
[5] ARPF – Alzheimer’s Research & Prevention Foundation:
https://alzheimersprevention.org/research/
More Scientific:
[6] A randomized controlled trial of Kundalini yoga in mild cognitive impairment:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28088925/
(in US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health)
[7] A Yoga Intervention for Posttraumatic Stress: A Preliminary Randomized Control Trial:
https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/22856942
(in Harvard Library)
[8] Cerebral blood flow changes during chanting meditation
https://res.kundalini-khalsa.com/Kirtan.Kriya.research.paper.1.pdf
(in Nuclear Medicine Communications)
[9] KABC Reports the Benefits of Kirtan Kriya Meditation for Caregivers
https://www.semel.ucla.edu/latelife/news/kabc-reports-benefits-kirtan-kriya-meditation-caregivers
(in UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior)