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Medicine for Disease or Disease from Medicine?

2012-01-06T11:56:00.000+06:00

Medicine for Disease or Disease from Medicine?: Alternative Medicine You have probably heard the joke about the guy who goes to his doctor more than often. So one day a friend asks him...

Medicine for Disease or Disease from Medicine?

2012-01-04T10:00:00.000+06:00

Alternative Medicine

You have probably heard the joke about the guy who goes to his doctor more than often. So one day a friend asks him what is going on. ‘My friend doctors have to earn their living, don’t they?’ he replies promptly. ‘Yes, but you also go and buy medicine from the pharmacies’ the friend responds. ‘Why do you do that?’ ‘Well the pharmacist also has to live you see.’ he says with a smile. The friend is astonished. ‘Why then do you not take your medicine?’ he asks. "Because I also want to live'' he replies.

Smart guys like this one have always realized that taking too much medicine can be bad for you. Yet lately, the issue seems to be getting more attention than ever. Every year, on World Health Day, WHO warns us again one disease or another. This year however, it decided to warn us against the dangers of the overuse of antibiotics. Really? You ask. We need to protect ourselves from diseases, NOT medicine, you think.

Well it turns out WHO is right, because medicine can be as harmful for our health as diseases. Because we have been gobbling down antibiotics whenever we felt like it bacteria have grown resistant to it. According to WHO, if no action is taken, we will soon enter an era when antibiotics will not work at all and people will start dying from common infections. But this is not the only danger from medicine. Some medicine can have terrible side effects, and others can be fatal when taken in combination with another.

Some of us may feel that in a world where many still live without food and shelter, we should be concerned with the lack of medicine rather than the excess of it. To some extent this is true, but although in one hand many people are not getting medicine, on the other hand, many people, especially in the upper and upper middle classes, are getting sick from too much medicine. In fact a study published in the Journal Medical Science Foundation found that adverse effect of medical treatment is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US, after heart disease and cancer, with 7000 people dying every year from taking the wrong medicine.

Now the question is what role do doctors play in all this? An organization called Health Watch has found that on average, a Bangladeshi doctor spends about 54 seconds with his patient! Is it really possible to diagnose a disease correctly in such a short time? And what about us? Whenever we feel a little sick we start to gobble down medicine. Then when we feel a little better, we stop taking them, who cares if the course was completed or not? Then after six months, we fall sick again and start taking the same medicine again without consulting the doctor. And of course, many of us turn into doctors ourselves when are sick, prescribing medicine for ourselves based on something we have read or heard.

The main problem is our over dependence on medicine. According to Dr. John Robbins our mistaken view of the healthcare system has taken us down this unhealthy path. We think that good health is in the hospitals or drug stores or in the hands of the doctor who will heal us with some miraculous pills or injections. So we change doctor after doctor, medicine after medicine. But in most cases tour condition remains the same.

In fact what is necessary is the correct attitude and lifestyle. You have to know that you have the ability to heal yourself; the doctor can only help you in the process. As long as you don’t believe this, no medicine can cure you. Studies have shown that about 75% of our diseases are psychosomatic. Of the remaining 25%, 15% are because of infections, viruses, improper diet and lack of physical activities and 10% are due to accidents, drug reactions or mistreatment. So simply embracing the right attitude can prevent and cure 75% diseases. Even for the remaining 25%, correct attitude increases the efficiency of treatment.

So from now on try to have as little medicine as possible unless it is serious. And don’t get over anxious about common diseases. Instead change your lifestyle and food habits. For example relaxation is the most effective painkiller. So why take pills for pain when you have such a simple cure in your hand ? And also, the more you meditate the stronger your immune system will become and the less you will get sick. Then you will see be you safe from both diseases and medicine. For Alternative Medicine products

Healthy Heart

2011-12-31T21:11:00.002+06:00

What is Heart Disease?
Although heart disease is an umbrella term for a variety of different diseases affecting the heart, it usually refers to coronary artery disease. When cholesterol accumulates in the coronary arteries the flow of blood is obstructed. As a result the oxygen supply to the heart is reduces and various symptoms including chest pain are experienced. High cholesterol diet, smoking, obesity, and stress are considered the most important factors in causing heart disease. More than 15 million people die of heart diease every year. As of 2007, it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, killing one person every 34 seconds in the United States alone. The incidence of heart disease has been rising in the developing countries as well. The World Health Organization predicts that heart disease would reach epidemic levels in many developing countries including Bangladesh unless immediate steps are taken.

Conventional Treatment and its Limitations
Under conventional treatment, medicine, angioplasty or bypass surgery is recommended for clearing away cholesterol and normalizing blood flow, depending to the extent of blockage. This treatment however, has some major limitations. It cannot prevent blockages from recurring: One of the most important risk factors in heart disease is stress. But any effective treatment of stress is usually absent in conventional treatment. As a result, when the patient resumes his old lifestyle following the surgery, he gradually develops various complicacies of the heart once again. Studies show that between 25 to 50% of the patients suffer from restenosis or recurrence of significant blockages within 4 to 6 months of an angioplasty. 1 in 20 people suffer from a second heart attack after surgery. 1 in 40 people suffer from stroke. A second bypass surgery increases this risk by 10 to 20 percent. Harmful side effects of medicine and surgery: Open heart surgery involves cutting the ribs open to access the heart. Needless to say, such a procedure takes a huge toll on the patient and diminishes his energy and vitality. Even angioplasty and the medicine that usually accompany it frequently give birth to complications such as hematoma, drop beats, fluctuations in blood pressure etc. Huge expense For many patients, bearing the cost of these procedures is a huge burden. The minimum cost of an angioplasty is roughly $15,000 and of a bypass surgery roughly $40,000 dollars. A recent edition of Davidson's Principles and Practices of Medicine clearly states that angioplasty and bypass surgery, while successfully treating symptoms, fail to have any impact on the survival rates of heart patients. PCI (coronary angioplasty & coronary artery bypass graft surgery) provides an effective symptomatic treatment but there is no evidence that it improves survival in patients with chronic stable angina.

A New Approach Experts have seen that a change in lifestyle and diet is more effective. For years it was believed that once a blockage was formed there was no way to treat it other than angioplasty or bypass surgery. Dr. Dean Ornish, a specialist from California, was the first to strike a blow to this conservative notion. While working as a specialist in a hospital in California, Dr Ornish noticed, to his amazement, that 30 to 50 percent of heart patients were being readmitted to the hospital with new blockages within four to six months of angioplasty or bypass. Later, influenced by the philosophy of Guru Swami Satchidananda, he decided to conduct research on the effect of yoga, low cholesterol diet, and meditation on heart disease. In 1987, he divided 48 heart patients into two groups of 28 and 20. The first group was given a low cholesterol diet and taught to practice meditation and yoga for a year. In addition, they were successfully motivated to cease smoking and encouraged to develop compassion and empathy. The 20 members of the other group were treated according the guidelines of the American Heart Association. After one year, it was seen that for the first group, blockage had not only stopped, but reversed. Blood circulation to the heart had also increased significantly. On the other hand, for those undergoing conventional treatment, blockage had increased significantly. A detailed report on Dr. Ornish’s experiment was published in the Journal of American Medical Association in 1998. This ground breaking work created a huge stir in the US. Dr. Ornish wrote a book called Program for Reversing Heart Disease describing the program and its astonishing impact, which instantly became a national best seller. In an article entitled Going Mainstream, the June 26 issue of Newsweek reported that after Dr. Dean Ornish published the results of his earlier study, Mutual, an insurance agency based in Omaha, funded a two year study in which 200 subscribers enrolled in Dr. Ornish’s program, which cost $5500 dollars, instead of reporting to hospitals for $ 15,000 angio-plasties or $40,000 bypass operations. 190 stuck with the program, of them, only one needed surgery. After this tremendous success, hospitals from all over the country sent teams to receive training in Dr. Ornish’s program. This process not only saves the cost of expensive operations, but also relieves the patient from side effects and costs of the medicines that patients have to take lifelong following a heart surgery. Ornish’s program has gained such widespread acceptance that it hardly qualifies as alternative anymore, it is considered part of the mainstream treatment of heart disease.
Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late

Worlds Cheapest Travel

2011-08-16T12:55:00.000+06:00

Worlds Cheapest Travel

Travel- 10 Budget Friendly Destinations

There are so many places in this world that’s cost very cheap to travel (only about a tenth of other places), so why should we waste more.

People always likes to travel with comport but low-cost. For that an appropriate travel guide-book may help us a lot. Such Budget Friendly Destination’s travel guide books are available at Amazon.

Amazon is the best marketplace where you may find best travel guide books. This year lonely planet selected world’s 10 best budget friendly destinations for cheap traveling. You will find excellent books on those topics including other best-selling Amazon books at Amazon.

So today, let’s do an experiment and find out what’s a book that could make us think it’s the best pick. Read on to find out. - Cheap Travel Guide Books

If you can't control your anger: you'll be the lose

2011-05-09T10:33:00.000+06:00

Do you think anger is justified, even necessary? Or do you feel your anger is harming you but there is nothing you can do about it? You may think differently after you read this.

Consider this well known joke

The heiress to a billionaire’s property was his beautiful daughter. When this daughter grew up, her beauty and wealth gained her a lot of suitors, who all wanted to marry her. The daughter did not like anyone in particular, so she came up with a unique way to choose her future husband. She gathered all the suitors near a swimming pool, and declared she would marry the one who could swim to the other side of the pool fastest. The only catch was the pool was full of hungry crocodiles!

As soon as the beautiful heiress announced this, a young man jumped into the pool, and before the crocodiles could get to him, swam to the other side of the pool. The beautiful heiress was ecstatic. She ran over to the young man and declared, ‘You’re my hero! I have waited for someone like you all my life! You are the one I’ll marry!’

The young man abruptly pushed the beautiful heiress away , and said, “Who is the s…*$%# who pushed me into the pool? Wait till I get my hands on him!”

This joke has an interesting lesson to teach. If only the young man in the joke could have kept his cool, he could have got the proverbial princess with half the kingdom. Instead, he let his anger get the better of him.

We don’t want to cheat our way to winning the hands of rich heiresses. However, we have all done stupid things, and lost opportunities, in anger. When we get angry we lose our ability to think calmly. Most of the time we think of how to get back at the person we are angry at - rather than what is best for us. This is why we say, if you get angry, you lose.

The Costs of Anger

Psychological

When we are angry, we say or do things that we would never say or do in our normal state. Sometimes the victims of our outbursts get over what we had said or done, but we cannot get over the regret or embarrassment.

Researchers say harbouring anger for long periods can cause mental diseases such as apathy and depression. They say depression is anger turned inwards. If you harbour anger for long periods of time it will suck all the joy out of you.

Physical

Research shows that whether expressed or unexpressed, anger causes a lot of damage to our health.

When we get angry, some physiological changes take place within us. Our heart rate, blood pressure and breathing rates increase. Neurotransmitters such as catecholamine and hormones such as adrenaline and nor adrenaline are released, resulting in a state of arousal. The body temperature increases and perspiration takes place to bring the body back to normal temperature. Our muscles get tense and more blood flows into our limbs in preparation for physical action. Collectively, these changes are called the fight or flight response.

Researchers have found out that frequent anger (and consequently the frequent elicitation of the fight or flight response) cause a wide range of chronic diseases including insomnia, hypertension, diabetes, asthma, ulcer, stroke, heart attack, epilepsy, IBS, migraine, back pain, lung disease and even cancer.

For example, one study shows men with poor anger management skills are more likely to suffer a heart attack before the age of 55 than their more emotionally controlled peers. Another study indicates that how hostile and irritable an adult male is predicts his risk of heart disease more accurately than other risk factors including cholesterol, alcohol intake, cigarette smoking, and being overweight.

Research has also shown that anger suppresses immune functions, slows down the rate of healing and decreases longevity. Consistent, prolonged levels of anger give a person a five times greater chance of dying before age 50.

Relationships

Anger destroys relationships more than any other emotion. Family members are guarded and less relaxed around people who get angry frequently, angry people thus have less intimacy in their relationships. They also have fewer friends.

Success

Thirteen hundred years ago, Hazrat Ali (as), the fourth of the Islamic Caliphs, said that one should never do four things when one is angry :

Make decisions
Make pledges
Render punishment
Issue commands

Modern science is beginning to prove the wisdom of his advice. Jennifer Lerner of the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory found that when people are angry, they feel that they don't need more information before taking decisions, under perceive risks, think simplistically, and attribute causality to individuals rather than situation. When we are angry, our attention narrows and locks on the target of our anger. This often means we are so consumed with thoughts of getting back at the person we are angry with that we fail to consider what impact our actions will have on us. Think of the guy in the story. Or think of Zinedine Zidane’s famous head butt in the 2006 World Cup football final, or Mike Tyson biting Evander Holyfield’s ear. If we look at our own lives, we will find that we have all done stupid things, and lost opportunities due to anger.

Anger may also cause impaired neurological function leading to lack of concentration and memory. And as mentioned before, anger and resentment harbored for a long time may cause fatigue, apathy and depression. All these lead to worse performance and work and less success in life.

Spiritual

Spiritual progress is impossible without the ability to control your anger. Every major religion stresses the importance of controlling anger.

The Buddha had said, The true hero is the one who can control his own emotions.

Jesus Christ was one asked, “What thing is difficult?” He said,: “God’s Wrath. Prophet Ihya then said: What thing takes near the wrath of God?” He said, Anger.

The prophet said, ‘A real hero is not a person who defeats his adversary by wrestle, but he who controls himself at the time of anger.’

Does Anger Ever Really Serve any Purpose?

Many of us believe that some degree of anger is necessary for functioning in the world or that our anger is justified, even warranted. Let’s look at some of the common causes of anger, and see whether getting angry improves or worsens the situation.

Possible reason No.1: When someone misbehaves with us: If we get angry, it only puts the relationship on a downhill spiral. But if I don’t get angry in return, there is a much greater likelihood that the person who has misbehaved will repent.

Possible reason No. 2: If someone cheats: Rather than get angry, if we learn the lesson and learn to be more careful in the future, it will bring greater benefit to our life.

Possible reason No.3: If an injustice is perpetrated, if we are not rewarded justly for our hard work: In most cases, protesting, especially protesting alone, is useless. It is the course of action taken by the weak. The strong and wise thing to do is to wait till you gain enough strength to correct the injustice being perpetrated.

Possible reason No.4: If we are not rewarded justly for our hard work: In most cases if we look deeply into why we are not being rewarded, we will find that it is due to our own short comings.

Possible reason No.5: If someone mocks at our weaknesses: Why give him the pleasure of seeing he can control your emotions? Instead of getting angry, laugh.

Possible reason No.6: If we are under work stress: We must all have noticed that getting angry in these situations decreases the quality of our work and delays its completion even more. When you are able to express your gratitude to God even under these circumstances, you will find that you are able to complete your work easily and smoothly.

Possible reason No.8: If we fear losing power or authority: If we look at history, we will find that the ones who can stay calm in all situations can retain power or authority the longest.

Possible reason No.9: If someone refuses us: Just as we have the right to propose, others have the right to refuse. It is better to respect this right, and not to take refusals personally.

Possible reason No.10: If someone refuses to accept a logical statement or argument: Getting angry will not improve the situation in any way. It is best to convince him with compassion.

Is it Really Possible to Not Get Angry?

The Buddha had approached the last days of his life. A cunning man had an idea. He thought, ‘the Buddha will not live much longer. If I can spend some time with him and learn some techniques then as soon as he dies I will declare myself his reincarnation. Then I will not have to work hard any more. – I will be able to survive easily on other people’s donations.’

He started behaving like a devoted disciple and take care all the Buddha’s needs. Buddha understood what was going on, but did not say anything. Two years passed, and finally the disciple realized that he had not gained spiritual powers; because it is not possible to gain spiritual powers without true devotion. So the cunning disciple became livid! He decided to take revenge on the Buddha.

One morning, the Buddha was sitting alone. The disciple thought, “This is my chance,” and went and slandered the Buddha as badly as he could. He called him all the names that came to his mind. The Buddha kept his mouth shut. He just listened patiently. At last, when the deceitful disciple paused for a bit, Buddha opened his mouth. He said,“Can I ask you something?’ The disciple was still very angry. He angrily said, ‘Ask what you want to ask.’ The Buddha said, “Say you want to give something that is yours to someone. If he doesn’t take it, who will have it?” The agitated disciple replied, “You can’t understand this simple thing? This is easy. If I want to give something that is mine to someone and he doesn’t take it, it will be left with me.” The Buddha asked again, “So if you want to give someone something but he doesn’t accept it it will be yours?” The deceitful disciple said, “Yes, I will have the things.” Then the Buddha said, “Then I don’t accept any of the slander you just gave me.”

How To Get Rid of Anger

1) Change your attitude about anger:

If you are truly convinced that if you get angry, you’ll lose, you will find that you are able to control your anger. Here are a few techniques that might help you in this regard.

Stick the 'rege gelen to here gelen' (anger means defeat) sticker in highly visible places.
If you have the chance, video tape yourself with your cell phone when you are angry or ask a friend to do so. Notice how animal like you look when you are angry. This might serve as the wake up call you need.
Repeat the auto suggestion, 'An angry man goes from hero to zero, over and over again in the meditative level, or when you have some opportunity during the day.

2) Find out the reason of your anger:

Underlying our anger is usually some sort of core hurt: feeling unimportant, disregarded, accused, devalued, guilty, untrustworthy, rejected, powerless, unlovable etc. The more your sense of self worth and well being is dependent on other people, the more you easily you will get angry.

The Buddha did not get angry at the disciple because his sense of self worth was independent of other people's opinion. And he had the insight to realize that the disciples behaviour had more to do with his own disappointment than the Buddha.

You can be that way too, if you build up your confidence.You can use the 'Negative Thoughts' meditation to root out your negative thoughts about yourself, then use the Hold Your Head High meditation to strengthen your confidence. In addition, you can use positive auto suggestions and affirmations when ever you have time or during any meditation.

3) Seek professional help if necessary:

Anger can be the result of some psychological problem and may require professional intervention. This is especially true if you are prone to sudden violent outbursts. In such cases practice Shithilaion ( relaxation) and seek professional help.

4) Meditate:

Research shows that when there is a decrease the serotonin flow in the brain we tend to get angry more often. Research also shows that serotonin flow increases in regular meditators.
When we meditate, alpha waves start flowing in our brain and makes us feel calm and peaceful. In that state, we can see past our hurt or anger and see the whole picture. It is easier to forgive.
Meditation also brings to surface repressed or hidden anger and resentment and frees us from their grip.
When you think deeply at the meditative level, you will be able to realize the truth of 'An angry man goes from hero to zero'.
Quantum Method has also specific meditations on 'Anger' and 'Resentment'. Practice these meditations for three months in a row and you will find you are a transformed person.

Quantum Fellow: LEARN MEDITATION AT HOME : STEP BY STEP

2011-05-02T12:59:00.000+06:00

Quantum Fellow: LEARN MEDITATION AT HOME : STEP BY STEP: "How Do I Start? If you have decided that you want to try Quantum Method Meditation and are wondering how to start, here's what you may do. ..."

Quantum Fellow: Happy Family ( Tips) :

2011-05-02T12:58:00.000+06:00

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LEARN MEDITATION AT HOME : STEP BY STEP

2011-05-02T12:52:00.002+06:00

How Do I Start?
If you have decided that you want to try Quantum Method Meditation and are wondering how to start, here's what you may do.
Start with practising relaxation. We say relaxation is like the 1 on the left of a lot of 0s, unless it is there, the rest of the meditation techniques are valueless.
Before you start however, it would be useful to familiarize yourself with some of the terms and techniques used.These are available in the next sections.
After you have practised relaxation for a while, ideally twice every day for forty days, you may choose any meditation you want from the selected meditations section.
Please remember that learning meditation without a guide or accessories requires some patience. You will progress much more quickly and benefit much more if you take the Quantum Method Meditation Course.
Quantum Terms

Your Alpha Station:
The Alpha Station is beautiful place which has a waiting room surrounded by dense woods, fountains, lakes, gardens,-or any other natural environment that you like. It is the place you reach when both your mind and body is completely relaxed and alpha waves are being created in your brain. It is also the starting point in your journey towards your Quantum Home, the state of consciousness where the mind functions at the optimum level. Often, during meditation, you will use the Alpha station to wash away all your negative emotions. Create your Alpha Station in your imagination when you are trying relaxation for the very first time.
Your Quantum Home:
Your Quantum Home is your mind’s own home. It is the place where your mind is free of all negative thoughts, where it can use its creative and innovative potential best. If you want to use the immense power of your mind to become proactive so that you can attain peace, health and success, the first thing you need to do is create your Quantum Home.
The first time you do relaxation, after counting down from 19 to 0, create your Quantum Home in your imagination. Your Quantum Home can be situated in any peaceful natural surrounding of your choice. It can be beside a lake, river, or sea; in the middle of a park or grassland, at the top of a mountain, in the middle of a lake, beside a waterfall, in a dense forest or even at the bottom of the ocean. Wherever you build your Quantum Home, it should always be surrounded by joy and beauty and give you peace. It can be something that you have seen in real life and really liked, or something you design from your own imagination.
Inside the Quantum Home, there will be a large drawing room called the Darbar. A corridor to the right of the drawing room would lead to another large room, which will be your Healing Centre. In addition, you can add a study room, a rehearsal room, an acting stage, a prayer room, or any other room that you want. Wherever you go to your Quantum Home, you can change it in any way you want.
Autosuggestions and Affirmations
Autosuggestions are postive words and statements which when repeated over and over change your inner world; create new beliefs and vibrations that eventually change your reality. When you say autosuggestions with belief and conviction they are called affirmations. For example, French Psychologist Emile Coue used the autosuggestion 'Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better', to cure his patients of various types of disease.
You can use autosuggestions and affirmations to achieve many different kinds of positive goals, such as confidence or courage; better memory or concentration; recovery from disease; better relationships; getting rid of bad habits; and success in education, work or business. You can learn more about autosuggestions in our Mantra Power section.
Autosuggestions and affirmations will be effective if you follow these rules while forming them.
These autosuggestions are intended for you personally. So use the first person, e.g. 'I am bold and courageous.'

Be completely positive. Write down what you desire not what you want to avoid.

Avoid negative words. Avoid phrases such as ‘cannot’, ‘will not’, ‘do not want’ etc. Instead of saying ‘I do not have any fear’, say ‘I am courageous’.

Do not compare your self with the past or with someone else. Do not say, ‘I am as courageous as John.’

The autosuggestions must be realistic.

Do not include any time limit in your autosuggestion. Time limits can be stressful.

Goal Visualization (Monchhobi)
A monchhobi is a mental image or vision of your goal. Goal Visualization (monchhobi) means visualizing our goals When belief is added to your vision for your future it is called monchhobi or mental image. It is a picture of who you want to be deeply imprinted on your mind.
Our brain and nervous system understands the language of pictures best, and can retain it for the longest time. The human nervous system always acts in accordance with whatever the subconscious mind imagines, thinks or believes to be true. Once we have an image deeply imprinted on our mind, our brain and nervous system accepts it as true and start working towards it day and night. They change our attitude, create initiative and enthusiasm, and keep on supplying us with the necessary knowledge and energy. Like a self guided missile, our mind guides itself make the image a reality.
Every successful person has practiced monchobi, visualization or mental imaging consciously or unconsciously. For thousands of years spiritual seekers have used this technique for the benefit of themselves and others. In the modern world everyone ranging from players to beauty contestants use this technique for success.

Five Conditions for Successful Monchobi or Visualization:
The goal must be specific and clear.

Your brain must be able to accept the goal as logical and attainable. For example, if you are a civilian, you may visualize to become the Commander in Chief. But your brain may not accept a monchobi ( mental image) of being the Joint Chief of Staff.

Radiate the feeling of attaining the goal. Imagine yourself not as an observer, but as a participant in the whole process. This is very important. If you think about your goal it remains a possibility, but if you can think from your goal it is certain to become reality.

Continuous identification with your goal: Continue visualizing your monchibi or mental image in your meditations regularly until you achieve it. In day-to-day life continue believing your dream will come true. Do not let any negative thoughts interfere the process of reorganizing the information in your subconscious. Do not consciously analyze how you will reach your goal. Leave it to the subconscious to decide the plan of action.

Working silently to attain the goal. Do not announce your goal to the world, just keep on working silently till you achieve it.

After practicing monchobi or visualization for a while we should feel an increased urge to work towards our goals. If this does not happen, it may indicate that we are day dreaming, and not fulfilling all the conditions of monchobi or visualization.
If are now almost ready to start practicing relaxation.
Relaxation Preparation
Select a quiet place in your home for relaxation. Make sure no one will disturb you for some time. You may leave your phone in another room or put it on the silent or meeting mode so that the ring doesn’t disturb you. Make sure the room is well ventilated and is not completely dark. (Soft light is best.) Wear loose comfortable clothes. (Take off your shoes, socks and spectacles if you wear them. You may want to loosen your belt for greater comfort.)

Before you start relaxation, think of any recent incident that has brought you happiness and contentment. It doesn’t matter how trivial the incident was, what matters is the feeling it brought you.

Lie down on your back on a thin carpet or a hard bed, the harder the better. If necessary, you can place a thin pillow under your head. Place your hands on either side of your body, palms facing up. There should be some space between your feet. You can also practice relaxation sitting on a chair or on the floor. When sitting on a chair, keep your spine straight. Make sure your feet touch the floor. Rest the palms of your hands on your knees. If you know yoga, you can practice relaxation sitting on the floor in the lotus position or the half lotus position. Just make sure you are comfortable.
Relaxation
Relaxation is simple and easy to learn. You can practice relaxation at home. All you need to do is follow these simple steps. First read all the steps from first to last and then start your journey towards your Quantum Home. Best of luck!
Close your eyes softly. Your eyelids should barely cover your eyes and lightly touch your bottom eyelashes. There should be no frown or crease on the face. By closing your eyes, your most active sense organs, you are shutting yourself off from the rest of the world to a large extent. Your eyes are getting a rest. You are not unduly affected by your surroundings.

Now take a deep long breath through your nostrils. Exhale slowly through your mouth. Expand your lower chest and abdomen as you inhale. This is called abdominal breathing. As you inhale think ‘Infinite natural energy is entering my body’. As you exhale, think ‘All harmful elements are going out of my body.’ Again, breathe in through your nostrils. Think ‘infinite natural energy is entering my body.’ Breathe out through your mouth. Think ‘All harmful elements are going out of my body.’ Take a bit longer to exhale than to inhale. Repeat this cycle 6 to 10 times. Then let your breath return to normal.

With your eyes closed visualize your body - from the crown of your head to the tips of your toes. Focus your attention for about ten seconds on the muscles at the crown of your head. As soon as you concentrate you will feel the blood circulation increase in that area. It will feel slightly warm and tiingling sensation in that area. Finally you will feel the muscles become relaxed and heavy. In the same way, concentrate for 10 seconds on each the following organs, in the order mentioned : forehead, eyes and eyelids, lips and tongue, chin, face, throat, neck, shoulders, right hand, left hand, chest, backbone, stomach, intestine, waist, hips, thighs, knees, ankles, feet and toes. Visualize and feel the blood circulation increasing in those areas, the warm and tickling sensation, and finally the muscles becoming relaxed and heavy. Go through the list of the organs several times before you start the relaxation process so that you don’t have any difficulty remembering their names and order.) As you progress from head to toe, feel relaxation flowing down your body like melting ice.

Imagine your body is becoming numb. Now slowly breathe in and out through your nostrils 5 times. Take a little longer to exhale than to inhale. Then gently let your breathing return to normal.

Now focus your attention on your breathing. Feel and visualize the air entering through your nostrils, filling every cell in your lungs, then coming out again. Concentrate on your breathing, but do no control it. Let it flow normally. Continue for 1 or 2 minutes. Feel your body becoming heavier.

Shift your attention to the force of gravity pulling your body downwards. Feel your own weight. Notice how the weight of your head, shoulders, chest, abdomen, hips, hands and legs has increased. Imagine that they are becoming heavier and heavier and turning numb. Imagine the cells in your body are no longer living cells, but have been transformed into sand.

Imagine your whole body is made of sand. Visualize and try to feel as if these grains of sand are shedding from your body. Your fingers, hands, legs, chest, abdomen, thighs, everything is sand falling from your body. Your body is being transformed into a pile of sand. Imagine, as clearly as you can, that your whole body is lying on the floor as a pile of sand.

You are just a pile of sand. Imagine a cool wind blowing from the north. The wind is getting stronger and stronger. The windstorm is blowing away the sand that was your body. You do not have a body anymore! All you have is your mind, your consciousness. You are completely relaxed. The frequency of your brain waves has dropped from the Beta to the Alpha level. You have reached your ‘Alpha Station’ on the way to your Quantum Home. There is a special waiting room just for you in this station.

Now say to yourself, 'From the Alpha Station I am now going even deeper into my mind to my Quantum Home. As long as I am there, any external noise will only make my concentration deeper. However, no matter how deep a state I am in, if there is a fire, earthquake or any other kind of emergency, I will automatically return to my normal conscious state and take the appropriate actions promptly.

You are now going to start a mental countdown to reach your Quantum Home. By counting down from 19 to 0 you will reach your Quantum Home through a path of light. As you think 19, imagine you are being showered by a sublime blue light. A long path of light is in front of you. This path leads to the deeper levels of your mind. Count 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11. Think, “This path of light is taking me deeper and deeper into my mind.” Continue counting down. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. Think, “I am going deeper and deeper.” 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. Tell yourself, “I have reached my Quantum Home.” Let a feeling of complete peace and happiness engulf you.

Take a couple of minutes to enjoy the beautiful natural surroundings. Take in the fragrance of the flowers, the colors and textures of plants, the chirping of the birds, the waves of the sea, the murmur of the fountains…Pay attention to every detail, touch everything, feel everything.

Now enter the drawing room of your Quantum Home, and sit comfortably.

Your Quantum Home is a powerful state of consciousness. As soon as you reach this level, your mind automatically assigns your immune and healing systems to cure any illness. In this state, your mind can utilize the power of your brain fully to implement any plan for your welfare. Your brain readily accepts autosuggestions at this state. So, for future benefit, say to yourself , “In the future, whenever, with the intention to meditate, I close my eyes and say or hear the words “Relax, Relax, Relax.” all the unnecessary activities in my mind and body will stop and I will feel completely relaxed. Then, after I count down from 19 to 0, I will reach my Quantum Home.”

You may also add other autosuggestions. For example, “From now onwards I will have more and more mental strength and will always be completely relaxed. My memory will improve. My courage and confidence will increase day by day.I will easily concentrate on any subject I desire for any length of time. My body and mind will always be completely healthy. I will be free from the influence of all negative and reactive thoughts and words. Positive and proactive thoughts will bring my welfare. I will get whatever I want through proactive thinking. Day by day, in every way, I am getting better, healthier, and happier.”
You may create your own autosuggestions according to your physical and mental needs. Every word you say in this level of mind will be transformed into energy.
At this stage, you may concentrate on your monchobi or mental image, perform self-healing, or employ any of the other meditation techniques mentioned.

After spending this wonderful time in your Quantum Home it is now time to return to reality. Take a long deep breath. Say aloud or in your mind, “After I count from 0 to 7, I will open my eyes and be wide awake. I will feel lively and energetic in both body and mind.” Now start counting. 0, 1. Feel the sand grains returning to form your body. 2, 3. Take a long breath. Feel the sand grains transforming into healthy living cells. 4, 5. Take another long breath. Feel your body has been nicely reconstructed and is now vibrant with new life force. Say to yourself “After I count to 7, I will open my eyes and be wide awake. I will not feel any pain or discomfort in my head, neck, shoulders, or any other part of my body. I will be completely aware of my surroundings. I will be healthy, lively and energetic.” 6, 7. Open your eyes. Gently move your head and shoulders. Stretch your legs. Move your arms and hands. Say loudly and joyfully, “I am feeling wonderful. I am feeling wonderful.”

After You Practice Relaxation for the First Time
Congratulations for meditating wonderfully. When you are meditating, remember:
1. After you finish meditation, it may feel like you were simply sitting or lying with your eyes closed. That you didn’t feel anything special. Don’t worry if this happens. Just continue practicing. Gradually you will start feeling more.
2. Your body might feel extremely heavy. This is a good sign. Your body is starting to listen to you very fast.
3. Your might feel hot and start sweating. This is also natural. Things will return to normal if you continue practicing for a few days.
4. You might get a lot of saliva in your mouth. This is also a positive sign. Your body is starting to relax very quickly.
5. Your throat may become dry. If so, think of something tangy, like lemon or tamarind. Your mouth will automatically become wetter.
6. If you meditate sitting, you will probably feel some pain in your neck, shoulder and back. This will also go away if you practice for a few days.
7. Some people- very few- feel dizzy or nauseous while meditating. If this happens take some long deep breaths while continuing to meditate. The discomfort will go away.
After you practice relaxation in this process twice everyday for forty days, you are ready to move on to relaxation: short process and other meditations.

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Happy Family ( Tips) :

2011-04-10T10:55:00.000+06:00

Realize two people cannot live in isolation:
A marriage can never be happy without the parents' blessings. Our bonds with our first families are so deep rooted that even if we cut it off externally we cannot do so internally. People who go ahead and get married on their own disregarding their family’s wishes usually feel an emptiness that is very difficult to fill up. This does not mean that you have no right to choose your own partner or that the family can impose their choice on you. But while your opinion is most important in deciding whether and whom to marry, you must ensure the wedding takes place with the whole-hearted consent and participation of the two families.

Keep your wedding simple:
Weddings are becoming more elaborate and costly affairs every day. Many of us have been dreaming about the perfect fairy tale wedding since our childhoods. But no matter how beautiful it is, your wedding will only last for a day (or a week in some eastern societies !) but your marriage will potentially last for ever. And wasting or overspending on your wedding will attract unhappiness to your marriage as a consequence of natural law. So for the sake of your marriage, keep your wedding simple.

Try to understand your spouse rather than expecting him/her to understand you:
One of the most important causes of problems in a marriage is not understanding or accepting the fact that we are partially responsible for the problem. We always think we are right, and our spouse is wrong. ‘S/he is unjust to me’; ‘s/he does not understand me’. But we do not think that we can take the initiative to understand the other person.
The most effective way to resolve misunderstandings in a marriage is to identify our own mistakes and try to see things from our spouse's point of view. After all we cannot expect our partner to see things from another's point of view when we ourselves are not doing them same, can we ? When we automatically assume that the other person is wrong, we think the responsibility for clearing the misunderstanding is also theirs. But if we accepted the fact that we failed make them understand, we would take steps to resolve the issue. And the problem would be solved.

Deal with your partner’s weaknesses and shortcomings pro-actively:
Whomever you marry will have some shortcomings – there will be some aspects of his/her personality that will not wholly match your expectations. How you deal with these shortcomings will determine to a large extent how happy your marriage will be. For a happy marriage:
- Try to accept the person as a whole- his weaknesses as well as his strengths. Remember compassion or love does not judge the other person, but rather tries to understand him/her.Try to separate the person from his behaviour. Concentrate on his/ her potential, rather than his/her current behaviour. This will make it easier to accept the shortcomings.
- Consciously nurture the positive ideas about each other. Appreciate and point out your partner’s good qualities. This might inspire him/her to overcome his shortcomings.
- Let go of the past. Do not hold on to mistakes your partner made in the past. Live with the present.
- Never compare your partner with other people. Rather, compare his past with his present and point out his progress.

Deal with financial issues wisely:
The root of marital problems is often finance. This is especially true if the husband is the chief earner in the family and the wife is wholly dependent on him. In such cases, problems often arise due to the gap between the wife’s expectation from the husband, and what he provides her in reality. To avoid financial problems:
- Give each other realistic ideas about each other’s income from the very beginning. This will lessen chances of unrealistic expectations.
- Buy gifts for each other. (They don’t need to be lavish.)
- Do not detain or discourage your partner unreasonably from giving gifts to their family or helping them out financially.
- Do not waste- do not buy things impulsively. Wastage would attract misfortune to your family life according to natural law.
If you are the sole earner:
Say ‘yes’ to your partner’s requests for money as much as possible.
Give your partner some money to spend on her own. Never interfere with how he/she spends that money.
If your partner is the sole earner:
Keep your expectations from him/her within a reasonable limit. Do not make demands that are beyond their means.

Nurture your family life – spend time with your family:
Like everything else in life, if you want a happy family life, you will need to put time into it. Instead of spending time gossiping with ‘friends’ or playing cards or pool in the club, if you spend time trying to improve your family life, it will be much more rewarding in the long run. Remember, spending time with your family is different from simply staying at home. Instead of watching television, talk to each other, exchange feelings, views and opinions. When you’re with your family, try to be completely with your family, leave the pressures, worries and disappointments of work in the office. Participate jointly in housework.

Cultivate spirituality in your family life:
Always remember there is a limit to how much satisfaction a relationship based on only attraction can give you. Only when emotional and spiritual bonds are added to the physical bond can a family achieve the necessary life- force to be long lasting.

Our physical being asks “What Can I Get?” But our spirit always asks, “What can I give?” Much of the marriage advice we get from various sources tell us how to get everything we want from our marriages. The truth is, the more willing we are to give, the more things come back to us as a consequence of the Law of Natural Return. If, in our marriages, we can make a habit of asking ourselves what we can give to our partners, rather than what we can get from them, the results would amaze us. We would see sides of our partners that we have never seen before. And we might also realize that, giving, after all, can be much more joyful than asking or demanding something. The bond created by an unconditional relationship can never be created by demands, contracts or domination. So just be patient and keep on giving, without asking what you are getting in return, as long as you decide to stay in the marriage.

Know when to quit:
Some marriages are not meant to last. If your partner is abusive or unfaithful or has any other serious character flaws that s/he is not willing to overcome, it is best to end the marriage. In such cases, instead of holding on and hoping s/he will change, it is better to take a firm decision as soon as possible and end the marriage before you have any offspring. Everyone will not change, because they are not willing to change, and being giving is not the same as being weak and dependent. If you already have off springs however, think hard and long before you decide to get a divorce.

10 Tips : Happy Marriage

2011-03-24T11:29:00.000+06:00

TIPS - 2 :

Who shall I marry?
Bad or even abusive marriages often happen as a result of getting carried away by surface qualities. This may happen when a western woman gets carried away when she meets someone handsome, charming, and apparently with a lot of money; or an eastern parent who finds a prospective groom with degrees, bank balance and foreign residence for his daughter. We often realize too late that these qualities do not necessarily bring happiness, and that Prince (or princess) Charming is really selfish and greedy and does not have anything in common with us.
What we call love is also not necessarily a good predictor for a happy marriage either, because love is often nothing but a euphemism for physical attraction.
What matters most in a marriage is whether our partner is a good person or not. Whether they are honest trustworthy, and giving. And the best marriages are created when the two partners share similar values and attitude towards life.

So before you get married, make sure you have enough information about the person you are going to marry. Don’t rely on what they are telling you, get objective information from people who know him or her. Do not conceal any important information about yourself from the person you are going to marry. If you know Quantum Method Meditation, bring the person to your Command Centre and ask yourself whether you two are compatible or not. Your mind will give you the right answer.

10 Tips : Happy Marriage

2011-03-14T11:56:00.000+06:00

Tips : 1

Marriage in one of the most rewarding yet challenging areas of our lives. Here are a few tips for a truly satisfying marriage.

Have realistic expectations about marriages:
Do you expect your marriage to be like the ‘happily ever after’ in fairy tales or an endless succession of warm and colourful family functions like Hindi movies?

Do you expect your future husband or wife to be perfect – consciously or subconsciously- like the characters in cinemas or novels?

Or, if you are ‘in love’ with the person you are going to marry do you expect the euphoria of romantic love to last forever?

One of the major reasons of unhappy marriages is having unrealistic expectations.

These unrealistic expectations lead to disappointment and heart-break because real life can never live up to them. For example, it has been scientifically proven that the euphoria of romantic love is temporary. Successful couples are able to replace the romantic love with a more long lasting kind of love. And no matter who you marry, s/he will never be perfect, and s/he would certainly not be thinking about you all the time. And your marriage is bound to have ups and downs.

This does not mean marriages cannot be happy: they can. However, to make it so, both partners need to approach it with the right attitude and make persistent efforts. And having realistic expectations is the first component of the ‘right attitude’.

To be continued .....

Live a Stress-free Life: 10 Tips

2011-03-01T14:50:00.001+06:00

Live a Stress-free Life: 10 Tips:
"It is possible to lead a stress free life, even in this day and age. But to do so, we need to look past the surface reasons of stress and id..."

Super Students

2011-02-20T11:00:00.000+06:00

Doing Well In Exams Is Easy !!

It is really easy to do well in exams. Anyone can do it. If you really want to, you can. You don’t need to be a genius to do well. You don’t need extraordinary talent or super sharp memory to do well. You don’t need to study in a well-known school, have lots of private tutors or rich parents to do well. All you need is to have confidence in yourself and be ready to work hard.

Find it hard to believe? Then take a look at this example.

Dr. B R Ambedkar was born as the 14th child of a poor Indian family at the end of the 19^th century. In school he was not allowed to sit inside the classroom with the other students because his family was considered untouchable. If he needed to drink water somebody from a higher caste would have to pour the water from a height as he was not allowed to touch either the water or the vessel that contained it. If the peon who usually poured the water did not come one day, he would have to go without water. During his entrance exam, he was going to the exam center, which was 19 miles away, on a bullock cart. In the middle of the way, the carter made him get off his cart because he was an outcaste.

But none of these obstacles could stop him. Among the 14 children of the family, only five survived the poverty and sickness. Of the five, he was the only one to grauate to higher school. He became one of the first persons of untouchable origin to go to college in India. Later he earned higher degrees - including multiple doctorates - in law, economics and political science from Columbia University and London School of Economics.

After he came back to India, he established himself as a successful lawyer and an important political figure. He dedicated his life to establishing the rights of the untouchables and other oppressed people. As the father of the Indian Constitution, he earned praise and respect from everyone. Indians lovingly call him ‘Baba Ambedkar’. On the anniversary of his birth (14 April) and death (6 December) and on other special days, at least half a million people gather to pay homage to him at his memorial in Mumbai.

Your situation can't be worse than Baba Ambedkar's. Then why shouldn't you be able to succeed? The fact is you proved your ability even before you came to this world. Out of the 300 to 500 million sperms that started their journey to unite with the ovum in the womb only one succeeded - and you are the developed version of that sperm. You are in this world because you won a competition with 500 million participants. You won the first competition and you have the capability to win each and every competition of your life.

If you understand how your mind-body system works, then this belief in yourself will become even stronger. Take your body, for example. You have 500 types of muscles, 206 types of bones and 70 to 100 trillion cells in your body. You have a 60,000 mile long pipeline made up of veins and arteries. This pipeline ensures that each and every cell of your body receives food. Your heart beats continuously for a hundred thousand times a day and pumps out 16 hundred gallons of blood without any break or objection!

If you still think you are worthless, if you still want to be like somebody else, then that is your biggest mistake. The brain which controls your mind-body system is at least 1 million times more powerful than a computer. So the price of your brain should be at least 1 million times the price of a computer, which would be 50 thousand million taka or more than 700 million dollars! Everything you see in civilization has been created by using the immense power of the brain. Among the 6 billion people of this world, you are unqiue. There is no one just like you. Your brain is also unique.

So always remember, you have the ability turn every logical desire into reality, including being first in your class. You just need to believe that you can.

Change Your Life by Changing Your Attitude

2011-02-05T10:28:00.001+06:00

“One of the most important discoveries of my generation is that by changing ones attitude one can change one's life,” said one of the most notable philosophers and psychologists of the twentieth century.

This is indeed true. The human brain is immensely powerful and has the power to transform any logical desire into reality. But decades of research in fields like psychoneuroimmunology shows that just as the hardware in a computer is run by software, so is our brain run by our mind. And our mind is driven by our attitude.

Scientists say attitude or mindset can be of two types.

Proactive
Reactive

In order to change our lives in a positive direction, we need to change our attitude from reactive to proactive.

Proactive people have three major characteristics:

1. Characteristic 1: They are in control of themselves:

Consider the following story.

The Father, the Son and the Donkey

A father and a son were going to the local market to sell their donkey. The father, the son and the donkey were all walking. A man passed by them and said, “These two men are so foolish. They are both walking, even though one of them could easily ride the donkey.”

At this, the father put his son on the back of the donkey. They continued for a while like this, the son on the donkey and the father on foot. After a while, they passed another man. He said, “What a disrespectful son! He is sitting comfortably on the donkey while his poor old father is going on foot.”

After hearing this the father and the son changed places. The father rode the donkey and the son went on foot. A little later, someone else said, “What a cruel father! He is making his young child walk while he himself sits comfortably on the donkey.”

So the father and son both got on top of the donkey. The donkey started to walk. This time they came across an animal rights activist. The animal rights activist saw them and began to complain: “How unfair! How Cruel! Two men on top of one donkey!”

So the father and son found themselves in great trouble. They couldn’t both walk. The son couldn’t ride the donkey alone. The father couldn’t ride the donkey alone. They couldn’t both ride the donkey! So what could they do? They came up with a new idea. They got a bamboo stick and some string. With the string they tied the donkey’s legs together. Then they put the stick between its legs. The father stood on the front carrying the front of the stick. The son stood on the back carrying the back of the stick.

The father and son started walking with the donkey hanging upside down in the middle. As they were crossing a narrow bridge the donkey got scared and started to bray and move violently. The father and the son fell down on the canal. The donkey broke its backbone. The father and the son broke their legs. The donkey couldn’t be sold. The father and the son came home injured.

The attitude of the father and the son in the story is reactive.

People with reactive attitude are not in control of their own lives. They are always controlled by other people. When we are hurt by other people’s comments, burst out with anger in reaction, become resentful and plan revenge, get carried away by other people’s praise, melt at the yes man’s brown nosing, or eagerly try to please others, we lose control over our own lives.

Like the case of the father and the son in the story reactive attitude always brings frustration, failure and anguish. In fact sports psychologists take advantage of this reactive attitude and train sportsmen to deliberately provoke the opponent. If the opponent loses their calm, they make mistakes and the first sportsman wins.

On the other hand proactive people take decisions and actions calmly, without getting excited or emotional. Proactivity means not taking actions as a reaction to someone or something. It means always keeping your own values,goals and objectives in view and deciding on a plan of action based on them.

When the Wright brothers were researching on the air plane, most scientists believed that it is not possible for something heavier than air to fly. They thought the Wright brothers had lost their mind. But the brothers persisted, and the face of civilization changed for ever.

The less you are influenced by others, the more you can influence others. Many of us have heard this incident from the life of the prophet Mohammad (pbuh), the prophet of Islam.

The Old Women Who Laid Thorns on the Prophet's Path

An old woman used to put thorns on the prophets path every day. The prophet never said anything, He just removed the thorns and went on his way. One day, the prophet noticed that there were no thorns on the way. He thought that the old woman might have forgotten. But when the same thing happened the next day, the prophet became concerned. He inquired after the woman and found out she was sick. He went to see her, and nursed her.

The old woman thought, why is that the people on whose behalf I have laid those thorns are not taking care of me, while the man on whose path I laid the thorns is? This is the good man, she thought, and accepted the prophets religion.

The prophet could influence the woman because he himself was not influenced by the woman's behaviour. He felt the same compassion for her as he would feel for any other person.

Through out history, those who reached the pinnacle of humanity attained this quality of being pro-active in the truest sense, and that is how they won the hearts of millions. The less you are influenced by other people and external conditions, the more true joy and success will come to your life.

Characteristic 2: They Always Focus on the Bright Side

There was once an old Japanese lady who cried all the time. Her elder daughter was married to an umbrella merchant while the younger daughter was the wife of a noodle vendor. On sunny days, she worried, "Oh no! The weather is so nice and sunny. No one is going to buy any umbrellas. What will happen if the shop has to be closed?" These worries made her sad. She just could not help but cry.

When it rained, she would cry for the younger daughter. She thought, "Oh no! My younger daughter is married to a noodle vendor. You cannot dry noodles without the sun. Now there will be no noodles to sell. What should we do?"

As a result, the old lady lived in sorrow everyday. Whether sunny or rainy, she grieved for one of her daughters. Her neighbors could not console her and jokingly called her "the crying lady."

One day, she met a monk. He was very curious as to why she was always crying. She explained the problem to him. The monk smiled kindly and said, "Madam! You need not worry. I will show you a way to happiness, and you will need to grieve no more."

The crying lady was very excited. She immediately asked the monk to show her what to do. The master replied, "It is very simple. You just need to change your perspective. On sunny days, do not think of your elder daughter not being able to sell umbrellas but the younger daughter being able to dry her noodles. With such good strong sunlight, she must be able to make plenty of noodles and her business must be very good. When it rains, think about the umbrella store of the elder daughter. With the rain, everyone must be buying umbrellas. She will sell a lot of umbrellas and her store will prosper."

The old lady saw the light. She followed the monk's instruction. After a while, she did not cry any more and instead came to be known as "the smiling lady."

Proactive people is that they focus on what they have instead of what they don't have. For them, the glass is always half full instead of half empty. This ability to focus on the positive not only brings more peace and happiness, but also helps us become more successful as well.

If we look at human history, we will find that background, intelligence, poverty, race, gender, or physical disability, nothing can stop a person who is determined.

Andrew Carnegie, the wealthiest American of his time, grew up in the slums.
Albert Einstein was believed to be dyslexic, and no school would accept him until he was nine.
Barack Obama is black.
Being a woman did not stop Margaret Thatcher or Indira Gandhi from holding the post of the highest executive of the country.
Physical disability did not stop Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller or Homer from succeeding.

But in order to overcome obstacles, one needs to focus on the positive. If you look deeply into the personalities of these people, you will find that all of them had this quality. Appreciating what they have gave them inner peace and enabled them to start with what they have instead of complaining about what they didn't have. The habit of noticing the positive instead of the negative enabled them to see the opportunities hidden in the problems.

Characteristic 3: They Do not Get Discouraged by Temporary Failures

There was a man who failed in business in the age of 21, was defeated in legislative race at age 22, failed again in business at age 24, had his sweetheart die when he was age 26, had a nervous breakdown at age 27, lost a congressional race at age 34, lost a senatorial race at age 45, failed in an effort to become vice president at age 37, lost a senatorial race at age 49, and was finally was elected president of United States at age 52.

The man was Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln could have thought, 'politics is not for me', but he didn't. And he became the best president the United States has ever had.

It is not that successful people don't face obstacles. On the contrary, most of them encounter more obstacles than most people. But they do not give up in the face of obstacles. They overcome them.

No defeat is defeat unless you are defeated mentally. Proactive people realize that, and keep on working towards their goals despite of temporary set backs. And eventually, they achieve their goals.

So start from where you are, do not get unduly influenced by people and do not give up if you have temporary set backs. You too can make your dreams a reality.

Live a Stress-free Life: 10 Tips

2011-01-24T10:14:00.001+06:00

It is possible to lead a stress free life, even in this day and age. But to do so, we need to look past the surface reasons of stress and identify the root causes. We need to adopt a new attitude towards life. Here are some tips to help you live a stress free and fulfilling life.

Get Out of the Rat Race :

Most of us are never satisfied. We are continuously trying to be like someone else or running after more wealth, status etc.

This creates stress within us, because there will always be someone who is better off. And material things lose their attraction as soon as we get them. John Rockefeller was once asked," How much is enough?" He replied, "Just one more."

The way to get relief is to consciously nurture a grateful attitude: to shift our attention to what we have instead of what we don't have.

When is the last time you counted your blessings? If you are still alive, you are luckier than the 1 million people who will die this weekend. If you have food, clothes and shelter, you are better off than 75% of the total population of the world. If you have some money in the bank or even in your wallet, you are one of the richest 8% of the world population.

These simple practices can help make thankfulness a habit.

Keep a thankfulness diary. Set some time aside regularly to think of what you have and write them down in your diary.

Or you can adopt the practice followed by the Quantum family. Every morning, when we wake up , before we get out of bed, even before we open our eyes, we thank God (or Allah, Bhagvan or the universe, depending on our beliefs). This thankfulness is simply for being alive, for having another day to enjoy and to serve.

You will feel a contentment you haven't felt in many years. And the interesting thing is, the calmness you will feel when you nurture a grateful attitude will also enable you to work more steadily and creatively. So in addition to saving yourself from a lot of stress, you will also get more success and wealth as a bonus!

Live in the Present:

Consider the following story:

A Monk With Heavy Thoughts

One late afternoon two Zen monks were walking through a forest full of wild animals. Suddenly they came upon a lovely woman. The woman was attempting to cross a narrow bridge on a stream, but couldn't because she had to balance two pots full of water hanging from a stick on her shoulders. The elder monk stopped beside the woman, took her hand and helped her cross the bridge.

After bowing politely to the woman the two monks continued on their path. The younger monk was sullen and silent as they walked along. They travelled through the forest, over hills, around valleys and through a town. After many hours has passed, the young monk finally said, "You are aware that we monks are not supposed to touch woman. Why did you touch that girl?"

The elder monk slowly turned and smiled. He said, "My dear brother, you have such heavy thoughts. I left the woman alongside the road hours ago. Why are you still carrying her?"

One of the reasons we get stressed is because, like the young monk, we carry things around. In the office we get stressed thinking about the argument we had with our spouse the night before. At home, we worry about what the boss will tell us the next day.

But those who can liberate themselves from our past and the future and learn to be completely in the present, live a stress free and joyful life. Living in the moment does not mean indulging in momentary pleasures or not thinking about the consequences of our actions, it means giving our complete attention to whatever we are doing at the present moment.

Although it may seem difficult to us, living in the moment is not impossible. An effective way to bring our minds completely to the present has existed for thousands of years, and that is meditation.

That meditation helps us keep our minds in the present has been proved through scientific research as well. For example, a scientist named T. Hirai in Japan found that, Zen meditators are so focused on the moment that they never habituated themselves to the sound of a ticking clock. Most ordinary people block out the noise after a while, but meditators keep hearing it for hours.

Realize stress is not the result of reality, but how you look at that reality:

A fundamental fact about stress is that it is not the result of an event, but our reaction to that event. Richard D Lazurus defined stress as the condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceeds the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize.

The key word here is perceive. It does not matter what the external situation is, what matters is how we react to this external situation. The less confidence you have, the more helpless and stressed you will feel in the face of others demands and expectations.

So for a stress free life, use meditation and positive autosuggestions to create more faith in yourself.

Also, have a positive attitude towards life. Look at challenges not as problems, but as opportunities. Instead of complaining about problems, try to do something about it. In the work place, do not complain about the boss being 'biased' toward another colleague, or being 'victimized' by the conspiracies of jealous colleagues. Instead, try to build a relationship with the boss so that he is aware of your skills, and win over the jealous colleague by saying good things about them to other co workers. There will be much less stress in your life.

Love Your Work and Work Will Be like Play:

Most of us blame a heavy workload for our stress. Yet, does 18 hour workdays have to be stressful ?

Work becomes a burden when it is just a job: a means for earning an income. When we find our work meaningful and joyful, it is invigorating rather than stress-inducing.

The truth is, there is an opportunity to help or serve others in most jobs. But we either do not recognize the connection, or do not do the job with the intention of serving others. Consider the following example.

The Three Labourers

Three labourers were cutting rocks from a mine. The first one was asked, " What are you doing?" He replied, " I am cutting rocks." The second one was asked the same question. He replied, " I am cutting the rocks so that they have a beautiful rectangular shape and fit properly in their space." When the third one was asked the same question, he replied, " I am building a palace."

To the first labourer, his work was just a means of earning an income. To the second labourer, his work was a career, he wanted to do his work well and be known for his skill. To the third labourer, his was a means of realizing a beautiful and noble mission or dream. He loved his work.

By adopting the third attitude, you can minimize the stress from your work. If you know exactly why you are doing your work, and if the answer to that why is something meaningful and beneficial, and if you love what you are doing, then your work will become the source of boundless joy.

Create a More Exciting Life:

Some of us believe only too much work creates stress and anxiety. But the truth is, lack of work and monotony creates stress as well. If your life is boring to you, adopt some hobbies. This may be collecting something, or volunteering for a cause that is meaningful to you.

Also, take some risk once in a while. Do not be afraid of something where there is the risk of failing, but which can be very rewarding. To your surprise, you will find there is less stress in your life.

Manage Your Time Well:

Time is the most precious resource we have, and by learning to make the best use of your time, you can minimize your stress. While a detailed discussion on time management is outside the purview of this article, here are a few of the basic principles:

Make a to do list:

Making a to-do list is not only the first step of time management, it is in itself a stress relief tool. When we are stressed, we worry about 'all the things we need to do', and feel like we have to keep them all in our head to ensure we do not forget them. This distracts us from the task at hand. When we make a to-do list, we free ourselves from the pressure of trying to remember everything we need to do. At the same time, once the tasks are on paper, they don't seem to be overwhelming, and there is a feeling of being in control.

Make Choices:

On any given day, there might be a hundred things we want to do, but it would never be possible to do all of them. The key to sound time management is to know your priorities. We feel powerless and stressed because we spend most of our time doing urgent but relatively unimportant tasks or doing things on other people's request while what is most important to us remains undone.

So decide on your priorities and cross of (or delete) the others from your to-do list. Get rid of the fear of other people's reactions, (the fear meditation can be very effective in this regard), andlearn to say 'no'. You will find there is much less stress in your life, and the people you say 'no' to are also accepting your refusal with ease.

Schedule Your Work:

Assign a time for each work on your list and do it then. You are free to make your schedule any way you want, but once you make it try to stick to it as much as possible. Make your schedule realistic, and incorporate extra time for minor disturbances and exigencies. Keep the times when you are most creative and undisturbed for creative work. Once you master enough self control to do things according to a schedule, you will be free of the worry of 'when will get everything done', because you know when everything will get done.

Learn to Manage Distractions:

A major part of time management is to learn how to minimize and manage distractions.In a study of 1000 workers, Basex, an information technology research firm in New York City, found that interruptions caused by emails, cell phones, black berries and others now consume an average of 2.1 hours a day, or 28% of the workday. Constant interruptions not only waste time, they also make us feel stressed and inadequate and decrease the quality of our work. In a South Asian culture, interruptions caused by an unexpected visitor is a big time waster.

To get relief, learn to manage these distractions. Put your phone on silent when you are doing creative work. Make your own calls when you are in the car or at some other time when it won't interfere with your work. Answer emails only at a specific time. When someone visits you, instead of asking ' How are you?', ask 'What can I do for you?'

Delegate:

Learning to delegate is a skill that can help you deal with workload pressures. The key to learning to delegate is to accept the fact that the delegated work won't be done exactly the way you would have done it. Once you can accept that, you can move on to find out which tasks can be delegated and to whom.

Create a Stress-free Environment:

When we are feeling stressed or overwhelmed, our brain tends to be crowded with distracting thoughts and we tend to think about more about all the other things we have to do rather than the one at hand. A cluttered environment : such as a table full of open books or a room full of scattered clothes and things add to this sense of feeling out of control. So make a habit of keeping your things organized. When you need to study one thing, just keep that one book open and the others neatly stacked. Make your bed, hang your clothes in their place.

Try to make your human environment, not just your physical environment as conducive to peace of mind as possible. Make friends with optimistic and easy going people, and try to keep away from worriers as much as possible.

If there is a Quantum center, branch or cell close to where you live, be sure to visit it. You will experience first hand how, in a truly positive environment, all your stress and anxiety can dissolve in a second.

Express Your Emotions:

Research suggests that expressing our emotions help relieve stress.

Crying lessens our internal pressure and makes us functional again. Research suggests that tears, whether they are happy or sad, relieve stress.

When we are stressed we tend to take shallow and short breaths and our heart rate becomes faster. Laughter helps us breathe easier and this counteracts the effects of stress. It also helps the autonomic nervous system tone down a bit and go off high gear, and that enables the heart to relax. In addition, laughter massages our heart and other vital organs, strengthens our immune system, increases mental sharpness and creativity, improve memory, and even sharpens our intuition.

Talking to a spouse or a friend can also be an enjoyable way to express our emotions and relieve stress. Try to be friends with cheerful and optimistic people. If you live near Quantum, come and talk to a Quantum counsellor. You will feel much lighter.

If you have a anger and resentment stored inside, express it. You don't need to yell at the people you are angry with. Kick a football with as much force you can master, or open the bathroom tap and yell.

One of the ways to express our emotions without creating an awkward situation is meditation.There are separate Quantum Method Meditations for getting rid of different types of negative emotions, ranging from fear and anger to guilt and sadness.

Take Care of Yourself:

Often, especially when we are under deadline stress, we stop taking care of ourselves with the excuse that 'we don't have time.' The result is that we end up being so stressed that the stress about the work gets in the way of actual work. How many times have you worked through the night only to find that you are dysfunctional for the next two days?

In the long run, taking care of ourselves help relieve stress and makes us be more productive. Here are a few aspects of taking care of yourself:

Eat a healthy diet:

Do not skip meals, especially breakfast. It will cause a drop in blood sugar and create mid morning crankiness. Food high in omega-3, such as salt water fish, eggs and walnuts have a calming effect on the body.

Exercise:

Exercise leads to greater muscle relaxation and increased production of anti stress chemicals. Research also shows that people who are physically fit tend to have less extreme physiological response to stress.

Sleep:

When you don't get enough sleep, your body produces extra stress hormones, so it is important to get enough sleep. However, oversleeping, or using sleep as a way to escape, can also cause problems. So make sure you have healthy sleeping habits. Research shows however, that during meditation, lactate levels drop four times as much as that during sleep. So those who meditate regularly can get by with less sleep.

Practice Meditation

No matter what the cause of the stress, its physical expression is the same. Harvard Physiologist Walter Cannon discovered 90 years ago that when we are stressed, our blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and breathing rate increases, so does the flow of cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline in our body. Together, these physiological effects are called the stress response or the fight or flight response.

In 1967, Dr. Herbert Bension, also from Harvard, found the effect of meditation in our body is exactly the opposite. When we meditate, our blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension and breathing rate, cortisol and adrenaline secretion, all go down. Our parasympathetic nervous system becomes active and the flow of serotonin, a neuro transmitter than creates a feeling of well-being, increases.

In the Relaxation Response, Benson explained how meditators counteracted the stress induced fight or flight response and achieved a calmer happier state. The book became an instant best seller.

At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Richard Davidson has used brain imaging to show that meditation shifts activity from the right prefrontal cortex to the left. His research suggests that by meditating regularly, the brain is reoriented from a stressful fight or flight mode to one of acceptance.

So if you meditate regularly, your body will change in a way so that it gets less and less stressed no matter what the circumstance. You will be able to deal with all situations calmly.

Nurture Your Soul:

The Buddha's cousin Devadatta had been planning to kill him for some time. One day, he let Nalagiri, an working elephant, loose against him. The elephant, who had already killed one person, stormed through the street on which the Buddha was going on his alms round. The elephant threw away a person on the way with his trunk, and rushed towards the Buddha.The Buddha didn't panic. He just stood calm and unafraid. Suddenly, the raging elephant became peaceful. It knelt before the Buddha. The Buddha patted the animal's forehead affectionately.

Here is another incident from the life of prophet Mohammad (pbuh).

One afternoon, the prophet took off his sword and was resting against a tree. When he opened his eyes he saw a man holding a sword against his throat. 'Who will save you now?', the man asked. "Allah", the prophet replied calmly. At this the man's hand began to shake and he dropped the sword. Then the prophet took the sword and held it against the man's throat. " Who will save you now?", asked the prophet "No one can save me but you', replied the man."The prophet withdrew the sword, and let him go. The man accepted the prophets religion.

What was it about these greatest human beings of all time that made them so calm and fearless? They had nurtured their spirits.

Our physiological self, or our ego, is always afraid, because it knows it will die. It tries to amass power and wealth in order to feel secure, but in vain. It becomes attached to the people and things around it, and fears losing them. That is why it is always stressed, always anxious.

Our spirit, on the other hand, is everlasting. It knows that the only true way to security is through surrendering to the Almighty, or the universal life force, whatever name you may want to call the ultimate being. It is full of universal love, and wants to live a life of service and creativity.

You can start nurturing your spirit simply by adding more love to your life. Instead for living just for yourself, try to serve others. Besides wishing your own good, wish the best for everyone. Do not be afraid of being warm and affectionate to your family and friends. Give warm hugs. Smile. Do not be afraid of decent expressions of love. The rejuvenating power of love will wash your stress away.

Survived with Bilirubin 71

2009-06-07T15:03:00.002+06:00

I was admitted in a clinic with severe Hepatitis infection. I had got the test report on August 2, 1995. This was October 1, 1995.

By 9 o' clock at night, I was completely taken over by the disease. Death seemed just around the corner. From the next day my condition got progressively worse. I was in a daze. The thermometer reading went from 103 to 104, from 104 to 105, and from 105 to 106. The doctor was holding my hand. They started giving me intravenous drips. A blood test yielded an S. bilirubin level reading of 23.80: abnormally high.

The situation got drastically worse on October 3rd. My S. Biliruin level rose to 67.50. That night my admission to a different clinic was arranged, but the doctors on duty declined with regret. I would live between 6 and 7 hours at the most, they said.

Finally, through everyone's effort I was admitted to the Delta Clinic in Dhanmondi. The next day, my blood samples were tested in 6 different diagnostic centres. All of them concluded that my S. Bilirubun level had risen even higher, it was now 71. Everyone was certain I was really dying this time.

October 5, 1995: Since my condition was deteriorating rapidly, a medical board, consisting of some of the leading physicians was set up to handle my case. But my condition didn't improve. All medical efforts failed.

After 21 days in the clinic I was sent back home because there was nothing more the doctors could do. I was about to give up completely. But I realized if I broke down mentally I would have absolutely no chance of surviving. In the meantime I had even come through a coma.
I then started meditating regularly. I meditated 3 times everyday. I also followed all other rules and regulations. I began to get better rapidly. My S. Bilirubin levels dropped. I continued for several days in the same way. The person who doctors had said would live 7 hours at most is still alive by the grace of God. I have now completely recovered and leading a completely normal life.

A Person In Debt Is Like A Bird Without Wings

2008-05-26T10:28:00.000+06:00

In Munshi Prem Chand’s A Fistful of Wheat, Shankar – the main character - borrows a fistful of wheat from the local priest to show proper hospitality to a so-called ‘holy man’ who drops in suddenly. This single act causes Shankar to lose his peace of mind, his land, his income, his health (because he becomes an addict) and - most importantly- his freedom- in that order. Shankar spends the last days of his life working and living at the mercy of the local priest, and when he dies, his son inherits his debt, and his misery.

Today credit is one of the most glorified terms around. No matter which strata of society we come from our lives are emerged in credit, the rich have credit cards, commodity loans, this loan, that loan, while the poor have micro-credit. But has the life of an indebted person really changed that much since the times of Munshi Prem Chand?

The fact is most of the poor people who borrow from one source or another fall into a trap of perpetual indebtedness. They pay off smaller debts with bigger and bigger debts. Some of them take credit from one NGO to pay off the debt of another NGO. The cycle goes on.

There has been horror stories about what can happen if borrowers fail to pay the installments. There have been reports of borrowers having their legs broken by the employees of the organization because she could pay. Personal belongings like cows and nose rings have been forcibly taken away. One borrower had been in jail for 1 month because of a 319 taka credit. The poor don’t have Portias on their side to fight against the Shylocks.

There has also been reports of men marrying women, taking their credit money, and then divorcing them. And as Syed Shafiullah shows in his recently published ‘Shawpna o Shochetonota’ (Dreams and Consciousness), most borrowers’ dreams are in fact nightmares about not being able to repay their loans.

Borrowing may bring you a bicycle or a TV set, but it will take away your freedom. Your life will always be controlled by the lender. Is it really worth it?

Quantum Social Service Programs

2008-05-25T10:48:00.000+06:00

Safe Drinking Water

Setting up water tanks on street sides was the first social service program undertaken by Quantum. The first tank was set up in Dhaka in 1996. So far, 84 water tanks have been set up in Dhaka alone to ensure passers by have access to safe drinking water. Altogether, more than 100 water tanks have been set up in Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi and Sylhet.

In addition, more than a 100 tube-wells have been set up Lama, Bandarban, and 7 in Sylhet to provide safe drinking water. Most of the tube-wells in Lama have spontaneously turned into natural springs.

Quantum Shishu Shodon
The Quantum Shishu Shodon was established in the Foundation’s Rajshahi Center in March 2004 to raise orphans as enlightened human beings. Shishu Shodon takes in abandoned babies and provides them with the necessary care. At present, 9 girls found abandoned in various parts of the country are being brought up under the direct supervision of Shahida Banu, retired Principal of Nursing Institute, the Honorary Director of Shishu Shodon.

An Akika or naming ceremony for the first 5 babies was organized in 26th November 2004. Almost 2700 guests, including Quantum family members from around the country, and people from all classes from the surrounding neighborhood, joined the feast and prayed for the babies

Circumcision Program
Initiated in July 2005 by the Sylhet Center, this program serves young Muslims who cannot afford to pay for their circumcision. Till March 2006, around 250 boys had been circumcised and provided with recuperative care. On average, a total of 20 boys, adolescents, and even young men turn up every Friday at the Sylhet Center to take advantage of the weekly program. The program was extended to Rajshahi, Dhaka, and Chittagong in 2006. In Dhaka, Taleya Rehman, prominent activist and Executive Director of Democracy Watch inaugurated the program.

Burial Program
The foundation has taken the initiative to bury or cremate dead bodies that cannot be identified or cannot be taken care of by the family. A total of 90 dead bodies have been buried or cremated with full religious rites since the initiation of the program in Rajshahi in 2004. The program also operates in Narayangonj and Lama.

Women’s Rehabilitation Program
The Women’s Rehabilitation Program has been operating since November 2005 with the goal of sheltering and rehabilitating destitute and abused women. Dil Setara Chuni, an advocate and Quantum Pro Master, is in charge of the program.

Free Medical Services
Dedicated physicians belonging to the Quantum family have been providing free medical services in various parts of the country. Veteran homeopath Dr. Mokhlesur Rahman, Principal Dr. Majedur Rahman, and Dr. Mohiuddin Ahmed provide free medical services on behalf of Quantum in Kuril, Mirpur and Mohammadpur in Dhaka respectively. Quantum Foundation’s Mirpur Center regularly provides free medical services and medicine to underprivileged children at the local UCEP (Underprivileged Children Education Program) office.

Flood Relief
Quantum Foundation has stood by the grief-stricken people of Bangladesh during the devastating floods of 1998 and 2004.

In 2004, both Quantum family members and the public responded generously to our plea to donate to the flood relief fund and donated at least one day’s income or expenditure, dry food, medicine, clothes etc. A relief fund of more than 600,000 taka was raised. Quantum distributed relief goods in Dhaka, Sylhet, and Jessore. Special efforts were made to reach those who had been water locked for several days, had not been able to visit the flood shelters and thus were starving without food and water. Distributed goods included water purification tablets, dry food, chira, muri, rice, potatoes, bleaching powder, salt, biscuits, clothes, water cans, cooked food and vegetables, lighters and candles etc. Quantum members – aged from six years to above seventy, spontaneously participated in all phases of the program, including donation, collection, and distribution. To offset the effects of the spread of diarrhea in the aftermath of the flood, more than 200 volunteers dedicatedly worked to produce an astonishing 100,000 packets of oral saline in just 100 hours.

During the 1998 flood, Quantum produced oral saline and distributed them along with other relief goods, and provided support to rehabilitate the Poshchim Gao village in Rupganj area in Dhaka.

Mother Care
The matri mongol or Mother Care Program operating in Chittagong provides nutrition and care to expecting mothers, ensuring safe pregnancy and childbirth and a healthy infant. Since the beginning of the program in 2005, pre and post partum nutritional care and treatment has been provided to 10 mothers.

Quantum Meditation Resort, Lama

2008-05-24T11:22:00.000+06:00

Quantum Meditation Resort was established in Lama, Bandarban Hill District to create a space for spiritual pursuit in natural surroundings. The magnificent and remote area was completely unspoiled by humans when it was first chosen. Seven years later the 15-acre resort is a harmonious blend of spectacular natural beauty and modern amenities. Because of this unique combination, Lama is now a favorite destination for Quantum family members- who go there to participate in Quantaions or other spiritual pursuits or simply to get away from the chaos of modern life and rejuvenate in natural surroundings.

The resort offers a diverse range of natural sites— serene, exciting, and often a little magical. Taking a dip in the two natural springs Abe Shefa (The Spring of Healing) and Abe Kudrat (The Spring of Glory) –rejuvenates the mind and body in seconds. Use of a special kind of clay found under the springs has successfully eradicated stubborn rashes and skin blemishes. Chiching Phak, or ‘Open Sesame’, is a narrow dark waterway between two sharp ridges that almost merge into each other and then surprisingly open up to a large enclosure– hence the name Chiching Phak! Jable Shams– or the Hill of the Sun– is the highest point in the resort and is the site of the very special meditation, the

The Meditation Resort is situated in the Bandarban Hill District, home to most of the indigenous people of Bangladesh. Visitors to the center can visit the nearby Murong paras, or villages peopled by Murongs– one of the largest indigenous groups of Bangladesh.

About ten stages or manchas are scattered all over the resort– and are perfect places to sit and meditate They all have appropriate names such as Bodhi (the enlightenment that the Buddha received at the end of his long spiritual pursuit) , Zen, and Prashanta (peaceful). Hawa (breeze) is another mancha where a gentle breeze blows all the time. There is a 1300 sq. ft. dhyanghar or meditation hall where 200 people can meditate together. The gentle murmur of the spring flowing by the side of the dhyanghar creates the perfect harmonic background for meditation.

Modern Facilities
The resort is complete with all modern facilities, including several bungalows to house organizers, staff, meditators and visitors; more than 60 modern toilets; brick stairways and pathways to facilitate walking; and bridges that not only make traversing easier but also add architectural beauty. At night, generators and solar panels illuminate this remote area where power lines are yet to be extended.

The center also houses Sishu Kanon, a school and rehabilitation center for impoverished local children. In addition, Lama is also the site of a variety of social service programs designed to improve the lives of the local people.

Quantum groups visit the resort throughout the year to participate in Quantaions and various other spiritual programs, to attend the meditation festival, to celebrate Eid-Ul-Azha, or simply get away from the hustle and bustle of city life. To them, visiting Lama is not like visiting a new place, but rather like coming back to their roots, the Moner Bari or 'Quantum Home' they visualize during meditation.

With prior permission from the head office, you can visit the Quantum Meditation Resort too. If interested, please contact the center, branch or cell nearest to you.

For More Info : Please visit
http://www.quanfey.org/content/pages/resort/MeditationResort.html

We are not Alone

2007-12-08T12:27:00.000+06:00

Once you begin Quantum Meditation you are no longer alone. There are thousands of us to accompany you in your journey to an enlightened life.

Together we will build a great, humane and just society, where every individual will be identified first as a human being irrespective of his race, caste, religion, nationality or gender - where everyone will be able to enlighten their soul, develop their potential, prosper naturally, and live a meaningful life by serving humanity.

Borhan , M-30/3, Chittagong, Bangladesh.