Sunday, September 12, 2010

S.N. Goenka Vipassana Meditation Course: Seven Special Benefits

Meditation: The Path to Happiness
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Modern life can be extremely stressful. The strain of dealing with multiple conflicting demands at work and home can be overwhelming. Each person copes with this stress differently. Some choose self-destructive ways such as tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. Others may turn to counseling or psychiatric therapy. However, more and more people are discovering the efficacy of meditation as an effective way of dealing with this stress.
In response to this growing demand, a wide range of meditation courses is being offered worldwide. However, many people still feel uneasy about meditation and associate it with mysticism and esoteric cults. Among the various meditation techniques, Vipassana meditation is relatively unknown in the West because it is taught in ten-day residential courses and is not actively publicized.

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