Meditation – Benefits For Sleep

Vikas Malkani
30 November 2016

NEW BOOK LAUNCH!! INSTRUCTIONS FROM SOURCE

WISDOM AND BEAUTY – INSTRUCTIONS FROM SOURCE

Sally Forrest

23 November 2016

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Instructions from Source is a beautiful coffee table book full of inspiration and beauty.

188 Instructions that will guide you on how to live a fuller and happier life.

These instructions came to Vikas in moments of deep meditation and are simple to apply to life. Just one instruction when applied to life will make a huge difference.

The wisdom is interspersed with beautiful images depicting nature in all its splendor.

“The circle of life begins with me.”

“What your mind becomes full of your life becomes full of.”

“Everything and everyone is your teacher if you pay attention.”

“It is not change that hurts you; it is your resistance to it that does.”

The books are limited edition as only 500 are printed.

Each one has its own number.

Each book is A4 in size, hard backed and complete with butterfly cover.

Opening Special Offer – Ideal for X'mas gifts

Individual books are $75 SGD

Buy 3 for $150 SGD

Buy 6 for $270

Reserve your copy today. Connect on info@soulcentre.org

Meditation Singapore – 7 Benefits Of Meditation For Children

By Vikas Malkani

5 October 2016

Meditation is a simple but effective technique that has several beneficial effects on our children’s emotional, mental and intellectual development. It helps children connect with their inner strengths, sleep better and develop better social interactions. It also helps them to manage stress, stay calm and respond to challenges rather than get overwhelmed by them.

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Meditation helps children in a variety of ways. It helps reduce stress, strengthens the immune system, can improve relationships at home & at school, decreases aggressiveness and anxieties, improves behaviour and attitude, improves focus, memory & concentration and promotes inner peace.

Meditation has also proven effective in helping kids release negative thoughts and behaviours and in building self-confidence. Mindfulness and meditation are fantastic tools that kids can learn at an early age which will help them throughout their lives.

Most of what parents want for their kids, emotionally, socially and personally, is possible through meditation. In fact, the impact of meditation on kids can be life-changing.  

There are thousands of studies showing the positive impact of meditation on our health and well-being. Here are some of the positive traits and skills meditation brings in children.

1) Self-Management - Kids learn to become more aware of their own bodies and their reaction to stress so that they can better take control of their emotional and physical states. This ability to calm themselves when they experience stress is an invaluable tool, and leads them to have a more positive outlook on life and to be more confident.

2) Increased Focus - Children learn how to focus their attention and concentration. This helps them read, study and learn more efficiently. Here is an example - when an elementary school in the Midwest did eight weeks of meditation with their third-graders, teachers reported significantly less hyperactive behaviour, ADHD symptoms, and inattentiveness in their students.

3) Enhanced Self-Esteem - Meditation helps kids learn how to pay attention to their thoughts, feelings, and emotions. In turn, they are able to be more empathetic and more compassionate toward others. They even become better listeners. Students in various high schools have reported significant boosts in self-esteem from their meditation practice.

4) Creative Thinking - Children are naturally very creative, but often they don’t fully tune in to their creative wellspring. Meditation leads to an increased ability for children to tap into their natural creativity. At Leiden University, psychologists have found that, after doing short meditation exercises, participants performed better on tasks that required them to generate new creative ideas.

5) Inner Calmness – It’s interesting to note that many elementary-aged children use entertainment technology, video games, texting, TV, etc., for up to 7.5 hours a day on average! This technology encourages fast paced and frenetic mind activity and a culture of multi-tasking. Children are especially susceptible to the side effects of too much technology, such as shorter attention span, less patience, anxiety and nervousness. It’s very important to counterbalance all this exposure to technology with some quiet time, and meditation is the perfect complement.

6) Personal Growth - As children grow, they learn who they are and what makes them happy. Meditation teaches them self-awareness. By looking inside themselves, they find out what they’re passionate about and what they want to do in life. They understand their own reactions better and can learn to self-regulate when they are triggered. They develop a certain independence and can follow their own intuition instead of just following the crowd.

The nature of the mind, when stressed, is to jump from thought to thought like a monkey. If there is tension, then the mind cannot be calm. Meditation gives them a healthy rest from the ‘monkey mind’ so they can function more effectively and with clarity. Additionally, the child’s creativity will flow best when their mind is freed from the demands of tension and stress.

7) Overcoming Fear – Fear is another challenge for children as they are growing up in this fast-paced world. Fears, such as not being accepted and not having friends as well as the primal fears of death and losing loved ones, can trouble children. Emotional stability is essential for healthy growth.

Meditation helps children cope with the emotions of frustration and fear. It helps to balance the whole system by supporting emotional development and gives rest to the mind so that they are not overwhelmed by their strong feelings.

Vikas Malkani is an internationally renowned teacher of meditation and mindfulness classes in Singapore. He is also the author of the best-selling book ‘The Little Manual of Meditation’.

For the next meditation class with Vikas Malkani, see here http://www.soulcentre.org/events

What is Mindfulness Meditation?

A lot of confusion exists about what meditation and mindfulness really are, is there a difference between them, and what’s their purpose and benefits. So let me take a few minutes of your time and bring some clarity.

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Meditation is an ancient path that consists of wisdom, techniques and practice, and allows you to manifest the life that you choose. It also empowers you to create a life full of happiness, inner freedom, fulfilment and purpose.

Meditation is thousands of years old, predates the world’s major religions, is scientific and systematic, and has been used by people and cultures across the ages. Unfortunately, as religions become embedded in local populations, this ancient path of living your highest life came to develop a strong religious flavour. The non-religious masters retreated into the background and the religious teachers took centre stage.

Many great individuals used this wisdom, including the young prince Siddhartha Gautama, who later went on to be known as the Buddha, the Awakened one. In his years of teaching, he selected and used a few techniques from this vast science, which continued even after his passing under the label of ‘Buddhist Meditation’. These include vipasana, ana-pana-sati, and more, all of which existed before Buddha, but now came to be packaged differently.

Buddhism spread across the world and eventually found root in the fertile soil of young American minds. A minute number of Americans were eager to try it, but the large population stayed away from participating, because of the strong religious packaging these techniques were presented in.

In 1979, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn secularized one particular type of Buddhist meditation and renamed it mindfulness. Over the next 30 years, that simple act successfully spread a small part of meditation to thousands of individuals from all fields of life, and into hundreds of hospitals and other medical facilities worldwide.

To summarize, meditation is the whole book on how to live your intended life, with many chapters, and mindfulness is one of the chapters in the book of meditation.

A little more on Mindfulness –

In essence, mindfulness is about paying total attention and awareness to something, without judgement. These can include our experience of the present moment, our own bodies, our thoughts and emotions, our unseen assumptions and our conditioned habits of mind and behaviour.

With the hectic lives we lead today, when was the last time you were able to slow down and breathe, much less pay attention to the present moment? I bet it’s been awhile. In fact, on most days you’re probably feeling so overwhelmed, worried and stressed that you’re happy just to make it through another day.

In the past 35 years, meditation in various forms (including mindfulness) has found its way into the mainstream of medicine, health care, and psychology, where it has been broadly applied and continues to be studied through clinical research and neuroscience.

In fact, in recent years, meditation and mindfulness have also begun to move into business environments, sports performance, the armed forces and even astronauts.

Mindfulness is being conscious of what you’re feeling, more intentional about your behaviors, and more attentive to the impact you have on others. Start using mindfulness meditation and you will see benefits such as improved focus, greater control over stress, balanced emotions, stronger immune system, a clear mind and many more…

But don’t just take my word for it. There’s plenty of scientific research that backs up what I am saying, and I am happy to show you how to make the benefits real in your life too!

SoulCentre is Asia’s Premier Personal Development Centre for meditation, mindfulness and stress management.

Attend our popular ‘Meditation Made Simple’ program and understand how meditation and mindfulness can benefit your life tremendously.

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Wisdom for the Soul

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE CARDS - SOULCENTRE

Do you ever wish you could simply find the answer to a question in life or do you ever feel a bit lost and would just love for some words of wisdom?

Well we have the solution, or as we love to say, the SOUL-ution.

SoulCentre Inspirational Words of Wisdom – Our SOUL Card series.

• Wisdom at your fingertips for you to use for any and every occasion.
• Beautiful quote cards that give you a boost in life just when you need it the most.
• Leave them on your coffee tables and pick a card whenever you need a boost.
• Put them on your walls / notice boards/ fridge to keep you inspired.
• Use them as handy post cards / notes to friends.

Available through SoulCentre – Order on line or simply just drop us an E-mail and order your set today.

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Meditation Classes in Singapore

MEDITATION CLASSES IN SINGAPORE

2016 has seen a sharp increase in the number of people turning to Meditation. The pace of life is speeding up; we are all multitasking more often and for longer periods and also the opportunities for distraction have never been greater. It all results in excessive thoughts and a mind that feels as if it is spiraling out of control and has no peace.

I caught up with the latest batch of students who have learnt Meditation Made Simple, a beginners guide to meditation at SoulCentre.

SoulCentre is Asia’s Premier Centre for Meditation and Mindfulness and under the guidance of Vikas Malkani, students are taken through a 4-session beginners program.

I asked them how has Meditation benefitted them and here are some insightful replies.

• Meditation has really benefitted me, I have learnt to see the positive in all situations and to focus on the good in my life.
• Meditation has given me simple tools to use throughout the day and in life to quiet my mind and to be in tune with myself.
• I changed how I view my life!
• It has opened my eyes more to my surroundings and helps me see the negatives that I have let affect me.
• Now I really understand meditation, its simple and the tools are helpful and work.
• How beautiful to get the tools for a happy life.
• It was a truly great course!
• I am more conscious of the good in my life.
• Made me understand that it is me that can bring good things into my life.
• It was so simple – powerful and easy to apply into daily life.
• I am already calmer at home with my children and more understanding with my husband.
• I had learnt meditation earlier but this course was so different – it taught techniques that can be used anywhere! It was so beneficial.

Students leave after 4 sessions like a new person…it was so inspiring to see. And as for Vikas himself, the teacher, this is what they say:

• He is very accessible, calm and clear, I love his style of teaching.
• No words can describe him – thank you Vikas!
• He is inspirational, interesting, informative and encouraging.
• He is an ocean of wisdom; I am so blessed to be able to learn from him.
• He is fun, an excellent storyteller, authentic, clear and direct.
• Lovely, gentle, warm natured and so approachable.
• He vibrates calmness, compassion, acceptance, wisdom and is such an amazing teacher.

SoulCentre holds classes each month and they are in the morning (10 am – 12 noon) and again in the evening (7pm – 9pm)

Check out the website – www.soulcentre.org for dates and for on line bookings.

There is also an On-Line program for mediation on the website – for those who want to learn in their own space and time and for those who simply want to stay connected to the wisdom at all times.

Wisdom and Vikas on demand - any time - any where and in any location! Now you have the ultimate freedom !

Wisdom and Vikas on demand - any time - any where and in any location!

Now you have the ultimate freedom !

•  Take Vikas home with you...

•  Listen to him over coffee...

•  Munch on a sandwich watching him...

•  Take him along for a jog with you... 

•  Listen to him in the car...

•  Listen to him in the bath tub...

•  Listen to him in your pyjamas…

•  Get your spouse , your kids to listen to him … even your Dog !

•  Multi-task whilst listening to him...

•  Switch him on and off as often as you like...

•  Zoom him forwards...

•  Reverse him...

•  Freeze frame him...

•  Agree or even argue with him …its all up to you :-)

Such POWER !!!

And for a limited time we are also giving you a special discount as well.

Does life get any better than this?

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8 tips to find your purpose in life

8 Tips to find your Purpose in life 

I know many of us often ask "How do I find my Life purpose?”

So I tracked down Sally Forrest, Managing Director of SoulCentre to find out some answers.

Sally always encourages those she meets to "Have the courage to follow your heart"

I took time out and met up with Sally to ask her “ How do we actually find our passion and purpose in life?”

Sally gave us some great tips:

1) Never get too busy that life just takes over and you have no time to stop and plan what you want from life.

2) Know yourself - the best way to do this is to meditate!

3) Stop doing things that deplete you .

4) Do not engage in toxic relationships or hang out with negative people. 

5) Plan in “me” time.

6) Do new things - try something different and remain childlike and playful as you pass through life.

7) Really live each day! Participate fully and with awareness.

8) Simplify life - by living a simpler life, you are happier and have more time for you!

"You know once you find your passion as it is a deep driving desire that is burning within you. It leaves you on a natural high and you simply want to follow it" said Sally.

It sounds great, so I am going to go and look for mine now ..........

SoulCentre is proud to be featured in a Special Edition SG 50 Coffee -Table book recently launched by the FLA ...

SoulCentre is delighted to be included in the Special Edition SG 50 Coffee -Table book recently launched by the FLA (Franchising and Licensing Association). Stylish and elegant - with 200 pages in full colour. It lists Singapore's most successful Franchisors and Licensors. As SoulKids won "Licensor of the Year" last year  - then of course we were delighted to be featured. 

One of our SoulKids Ambassadors is also featured under a full page announcing SoulKids. 

Exciting times ahead !