Global Hindu Heritage Foundation and Dharma Jagruti Foundation are conducting Sanatana Dharma Summer classes for youth and adults for 12 months. These classes started on May 25th and will continue every Sunday until the end of August. On June 22, we conducted our class on Yoga and Meditation.

“If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.”– Ramana Maharshi
Paramahansa Yogananda recognized the difficulty and compared the controlling mind with impossible incidents as follows:
 “You may control a mad elephant;
You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger;
Ride the lion and play with the cobra;
By alchemy you may learn your livelihood;
You may wander through the universe incognito;
Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful;
You may walk in water and live in fire;
But control of the mind is better and more difficult.” 
If the mind is that difficult to control, what can be done to quell, still or silence the mind. Patanjali Yoga Sutras written sometime between 500 BCE and 400 BCE. It contains four chapters containing 195 Sutras (aphorisms). The whole book hinges on the second sutra “yogah citta-vá¹›tti-nirodhaḥ.”(“Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind”).  Yoga means of “joining the individual soul to the universal soul” or removing the barriers between the two souls to become one. 
 Why is Meditation practiced?
More than 35 million Americans have considered giving meditation a try. That means, nearly 15 percent of the US population practices meditation and Yoga. It is believed and proved that daily meditation can improve the quality of life. For students it relieves stress and improves their academic life. 
Research by several universities has documented the benefits of Meditation. TSoM Team has summarized them as follows:
•    Benefits of meditation and yoga
•    Boosts student performance and overall academic improvement;
•    Improves memory, attention span and body posture in students (both adults and children);
•    Helps students gain the determination to achieve their goals thereby transforming them into better students;
•    Aids students in maintaining their health and getting back their ideal body shape;
•    Alleviates psychological pressure in students that are capable of triggering various symptoms of depression;
•    Enhances communication skills in students that can enable them to build communities with like-minded people;
•    Calms down frustration among students who suffer from instability of their emotional well-being;
•    Helps students abstain from unhealthy or dangerous habits such as addiction to drugs, smoking or alcohol;
•    Improves the quality of sleep;
•    Increases self-confidence and quality of relationships that you make with other people;
•    Instils compassion and perseverance among students.
Students and Meditation
    Improved concentration– It leads to better grades, balanced blood pressure, decreased absenteeism and tardiness, improved interpersonal relations, and enhanced confidence level, sleep, relief from a headache, improved calmness and a sharper mind.
    Flexibility– Yet another advantage of practicing yoga regularly is the flexibility of the body. Stretching the muscles through yoga poses releases the lactic acid that builds up within your body preventing stiffness, pain, fatigue and tension that can really be painful at times. Stretching increases joint lubrication and stretches the soft tissues of your body. For students playing sports, yoga can decrease the risk of injury through increased range of motion and less fatigue.
    Concentration and sharpness– Meditation and yoga have proved to be of great importance in increasing concentration and sharpness of the brain. Balanced blood pressure, arthritis and asthma can also be controlled through yoga.

•    What Are The 20 Benefits of Meditation for Students?
 1. Reduces stress by lowering cortisol levels. 
2. Improves stress management skills. 
3. Boosts mood, making you feel happier. 
4. Retrains your brain for better focus and concentration. 
5. Good for your heart and lowers blood pressure. 
6. Helps break bad habits.
7. Enhances relationships. 
8. Increases focus and academic performance in students. 
9. Builds self-confidence and self-esteem. 
10. Supports better sleep. 
11. Improves mental clarity and overall mental health. 
12. Reduces anxiety, self-doubt, and peer pressure. 
13. Increases memory and attention span.
14. Promotes restorative sleep. 
15. Decreases anxiety, stress, and muscle tension. 
16. Slows heart rate and improves exercise tolerance. 
17. Helps with physical relaxation. 
18. Reduces high blood pressure. 
19. Lowers levels of blood lactate, decreasing anxiety attacks. 
20. Decreases muscle tension and improves overall well-being.
•    How Can Meditation Benefit Students In Their Academic Performance?
•    Meditation improves focus, time management, self-confidence, and academic performance, leading to better grades.
 A total of 36 programs that are currently offering school-based yoga programming, with nearly 5400 yoga instructors reaching students in more than 940 schools across the United States.
Twelve published studies suggested that the yoga interventions in the schools exerted positive effects on several factors, including emotional balance, attentional control, cognitive efficiency, anxiety, negative thought patterns, emotional and physical arousal, reactivity, and negative behavior. Additional research has also revealed positive effects for school-based yoga on such factors as concentration, self-regulation, attention, anxiety, stress, mood, resilience, emotional arousal, self-esteem, and coping frequency.
Global Hindu Heritage Foundation realizing the importance of Meditation, it required all the teachers to talk about the importance of Meditation and make sure the students practice meditation every day. It improves concentration, improves their mental focus, helps them to be more disciplined, and aids them to be calm and peaceful.
Interested people who live in Dallas can call 601-918-7111/323-365-4124/972-689-9145.) 
If you would like your adult children to attend, please register.
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