-Nimish Inamdar 22nd May 2012
“The overall
experience was wonderful. I feel energized. While feeling the happiest moment
and sensing it, brought tears to my eyes. Now I have lot of energy for the day even
after lot of sleepless (less sleep) nights.”
Many a times to reach the happiest moment
of our lives we spend thousands on a vacation trip, throw parties, buy our
dream home, dream car etc. Ask Madhavi on what did she do to reach this state
of mind and her answer would be that, “I closed my eyes for 15 minutes.” Of
course buying house, vacations are all important aspects that drive the overall
growth of our life. But Madhavi and many others participating in the Meditating
Monday initiative realized that happiness is merely a game of 15 minutes of
closing your eyes.
The Meditating Monday Club founded in July 2011 is the
initiative founded by the YES!+ (Youth Empowerment and Skills) volunteers of
the Art of Living Foundation to promote the knowledge and experience about
meditation. The pilot of this concept was first launched in ISC-2, Hyderabad
with support from Pavan Joshi. With encouraging feedback from the participants,
and a personal strong backing from Amarnath Juluri, we launched this club in
DLF, Hyderabad. With close to 20 successful meditation sessions so far, the
club is gaining popularity as more and more realize the benefits on meditation.
While there have been varied responses over how people feel
after the session, the common factor amongst all of them was an outcome of a
perfect healthy and peaceful mind. Research says that 20 mins of deep
meditative rest equals the rest of 8 hours of sleep. Participants are seen
energized right in the morning to face the day. “It would be a good idea to have this session every time before the
project delivery” chuckled Swathi. “I
think my manager needs it very badly” reported another participant on the
condition of anonymity. Although it is a good idea to practice meditation every
day, the Meditating Monday Club has ensured weekly meditation sessions in CSP
since past 3 months, enabling CSPiites to soothe their mind ironing out their
weekly frustration and discover a lot of things about themselves.
As it is rightly said, “Sometimes to open your eyes, you
simply have to close them for a while.”
