Liberty Fall 2009 Week 2

Class 2
The Sahaja Approach to Inner Balance
8 Week Course in Meditation

How is it going?

Updrades
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Agenda

The Pressure Cooker
Key Findings APA Survey 2 007

STRESS: Portrait of a National Pressure Cooker

Stress is a fact of life (agreed 79 percent of people), but according to survey responses, Americans routinely experience what they believe are higher than healthy levels of stress. One-third of people in the U.S. regularly report experiencing extreme levels of stress (32 percent), and nearly one in five (17 percent) report that they experienced their highest level of stress 15 or more days per month. Even more alarming, nearly half of Americans (48 percent) believe that their stress has increased over the past five years.

Google keyword “stress in america”
http://www.apa.org/releases/stressproblem.html

Effect of Stress: Good & Adverse
Where do you see the effect of stress in your life?
APA 2007 Survey

Coping with stress

Coping Mechanisms
The actions of the parasympathetic nervous system can be summarized as "rest and digest" (as opposed to the "fight-or-flight" effects of the sympathetic nervous system). It is also quite the opposite for the sympathetic nervous system.
Autonomic nervous system innervation, showing the sympathetic and parasympathetic (craniosacral) systems, in red and blue, respectively

Applying the insights
Being your own master