1. Mid-day meditation for advanced meditators
Nadaa Taiyab
September 25th, 2013
NTR 598

2.  Founded by ParamhansaYogananda
 Daily practice of yoga meditation
 Achieve bliss, peace, and liberation

3.  30 min meditation morning &
evening
 Once a week group meditation
 Practice calm and non-attachment

4.  6 kriyas / 5 minutes of meditation mid-day is recommended
 Strong desire to do this, but hard to remember and to motivate
 How to build this habit during the day?

5. 13 Participants: 12 Kriyabans, 1 non-SRF member
Personal friends from the SRF Phoenix Temple
Majority not practicing mid-day Kriyas on regular basis

6.  Inspirational quote
 Reminder
 Smiley face response
 Sent everyday at 12pm

8. • Motivation and inspiration
• Authority of the GuruQuote
• Habit trigger
• Give permissionReminder
• Accountability
• Social supportSmiley Face

9. This SMS intervention will help kriyabans increase
weekly frequency of mid-day 6 Kriya practice

10. 0.92
6.17
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Before Intervention During Intervention
Average Weekly Frequency of 6 Kriya Practice
• 10 / 12 Kriyabans
practiced all 6-7
days during
intervention!
• Non SRF-Member
only increased from
2 to 3

11. 92% 92%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Motivated by text messages Enjoyed Receiving the Text Messages
% of Participants
Strongly Agree Somewhat Agree
• 92% of strongly
agreed that the texts
motivated them to
practice
• 92% strongly
agreed that they
enjoyed receiving
the quotes
• Non SRF-Member
felt she could not
“relate to the
quotes”

12. 100%
92%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
120%
Plan to continue practice Would like to cotinue receiving SMS
% of Participants
Yes No
• 100% plan to
continue to practice
• 92% would like to
continue to receive
quotes

13.  “On Saturday I was feeling lousy and I didn’t want to meditate, but when I got the
text message I sat down and did it.”
 “One day I was about to sit down for a delicious lunch and suddenly I heard my
phone go off! I had to stop my lunch and do the meditation.”
 “The quotes were beautiful and inspiring.”
 “It was so inspiring to be reminded with a text and also with an amazing quote.
Each quote was so perfect and helpful. I wish I got one every day!”
 “The quotes were a great motivator to get started on the meditations. I would love
inspiring messages like these prior to all the meditations I do!”
 “It gave me a reminder to think spiritually vs getting caught up in the world.”

14.  Accountability of sending the smiley face
 Inspiration of the quotes
 Obligation to the group as part of the study
 Trigger to perform the practice
“Yes I loved sending the smiley face. It was very motivating.I had no hesitation to sit
down and do 6 Kriyas because it was simply my duty as part of this study. My ego
couldn’t get in the way so I really loved it!”

15.  Poll participants next week to measure frequency without SMS
 92% want to continue in some fashion
 Continue the program, but costs 5c/text message
 75% participants willing to pay $2/month contribution