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Meditation is a technique for personal growth that has been practiced for thousands of years around the world with repeatable results.

There is no aspect of your life that cannot be improved by meditation, whether it be in business, relationships, health, or developing any personal quality, such as willpower.

The highest purpose of meditation, however, is to discover your Highest Self.

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Ananda’s meditation techniques are focused on the breath and don’t require any belief system to practice.

Our most basic technique can be learned in a few minutes, while our most advanced requires about a year of preparation.

These techniques were taught to our founder by his guru, Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi. His techniques, particularly Kriya Yoga, have their roots in ancient India.

Our meditation teachers have been sharing these techniques around the world for more than 40 years, giving classes, workshops, retreats, and writing books. Learn more about Ananda

How Meditation Changes the Brain

How Meditation Helps

Chronic Pain

Aging

Stress and Disease

Emotions

Self-change

Obesity

Negative Thinking

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• Tension While Focusing at the Spiritual Eye
• Lack of Enthusiasm
• Cannot Find the Time to Meditate
• Feeling You Are Not a Good Meditator
• Spiritual Overconfidence: Thinking of Oneself (and One’s Abilities), Rather than God
• Protection from Negative Influences
• Feeling You Are Making Little or No Progress

According to Yogananda, Kriya is the most effective technique available to mankind today for reaching the goal of Yoga: union with the Divine. Kriya Yoga is so effective because it works directly with the source of growth — the spiritual energy deep in our spines.

All yoga techniques work with this energy, usually indirectly. Yoga postures, for example, can help open up the spinal channels, and balance the energy in the spine. Yoga breathing exercises like Kriya Yoga can help to awaken that energy.

The Kriya technique is more direct. It helps the practitioner to control the life force by mentally drawing it up and down the spine, with awareness and will. According to Yogananda, one Kriya, which takes about 30 seconds, is equivalent to one year of natural spiritual growth.

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