Vedic Meditation

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Vedic Meditation

• Improve Memory
• Increase Concentration
• Meditation improves the quality of life

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Introduction

• Relevant background and interest
• Benchmark current state of memory concentration
  power
• Learn meditation techniques
• Results depend on daily practice.
• 12 Mins a day (Minimum)

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Meditation Benefits

• Physical Mental
• Memory span has been linked to performance on
• intelligence tests
• standardized tests
• reading skills
• problem solving
• variety of other cognitive tasks
• (Miyake Shah, 1999).

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Physical Benefits

• Lower pulse rate
• Lower blood pressure
• Relaxation response
• Stress relief

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Mental Benefits

• Control over mind and senses.
• Aware in tune with true identity (not as
  identification such as his body, job, race,
  religion)
• Systematically unfolds one's full potential
• - enlivening the inner intelligence,
• - developing higher states of consciousness,
• - allowing to develop inherent consciousness.
• Enlivens orderliness, dynamism, and creativity
• - resulting in greater effectiveness
• - success in daily life.

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Benchmarking Test

• Memory (Verbal Spatial)
• Concentration

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Learning Practicing

• Meditation (3 - One minute Sessions)
• Grocery List Example
• Make things interesting, make it a challenge.

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Summary

• Review
• Practical ways to apply meditation
• Feedback from participants

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Where to Get More Information

• Every Thursday 6pm 7pm (6 weeks)
• Give handouts, vedics_at_egroups.com
• Other sources, vedic_at_uic.edu