Simple tribal meditation techniques like clapping or chanting has been found beneficial in fighting stress.
Simple "tribal meditation" techniques like clapping or chanting has been found beneficial in fighting stress that haunts individuals in day-to-day life due to various factors, according to an expert. Internationally acclaimed ZeNLP trainer Murli Menon, a stress management guru, believes economic stress is increasing due to price rise while people also suffer from physical, mental and spiritual stress.
Menon imparts tribal meditation technique for relieving mental stress. "There are various simple techniques to manage stress. For example, you can overcome physical stress by clapping and spiritual stress by chanting," he said.
"Tribes are misunderstood. Everyone thinks that tribes are not advanced but the technology I have seen in the tribes is much more modern and efficient than modern factories," Menon, who has lived with primitive tribes in different parts of India, Tibet, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos and China, told IANS.
Menon has done a certified course in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). ZeNLP is a combination of NLP and Zen meditation. According to him, it is the science of creating structured change in behavior using the language of meditation.
NLP, the programming of the brain with positive vibes and thoughts, was created by psychotherapist John Grinder and mathematician and psychologist Richard Bandler in association with Milton Erickson, a psychiatrist. NLP was developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the 1970s.
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Menon, who was here to conduct a program for CEOs at the Dhruva College of Management, is of the view that economic stress can be managed by certain techniques like budgeting.
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"There is physical stress as people are working for longer hours because of mobile phones. There is also mental stress as people think too much about what will happen tomorrow and there is spiritual stress. People are not getting time to pray," Menon said.
Menon, president of the Ahmedabad-based PhenoMenon Consultants Inc, is coming out with a book "Learning through stories" in December. "It is a compilation of 50 stories, each one of which I learnt from a different country I traveled to. There are stories I learnt while living with tribes."
The 45-year-old has already penned two books - "ZeNLP: The power to succeed" and "ZeNLP: The power to relax".
He asserts that a family which eats, prays and stays together, relaxes with more holidays and just thinks of the present can relieve stress.
Menon, a Keralite settled in Ahmedabad, started training program after an accident left him paralyzed in 1995 and rendered him unfit to continue his job as a manager in a pharmaceutical firm.
While undergoing treatment at the Manipal Hospital in Bangalore, he made a dramatic recovery thanks to NLP, his strong will power and determination to succeed despite all odds.
Lying on hospital bed, he set 20 goals, which then looked impossible for him. Today, he has achieved most of them.
Source-IANS