Alokaion This Week

The topic of discussion for this week’s Alokaion ( Self Empowerment Program) is Total Concentration Through Meditation. Here is a list of the presenters:
7:30 am:	Murshida Khanam, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Dhaka University
9:30 am:	Dr. Habibur Rahman, Coordinator, Quantum Lab
11:30 am:	Jesmul Hassan, Development Consultant
3:30 pm:	Mir Naheed Mahmud, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Dhaka University
5:15 pm:	Seikh Feroz Rehan, Lecturer, Daffodil University
7:00 pm:	Sumon Dhor, Lecturer, East West University
8:15 pm:	Major (Retd.) Kamal Reza, Executive, Quantum Foundation

 

 

Alokaion Last Tuesday:
Controlling Anger and Resentment Through Meditation

Almost seven hundred people attended the seven Alokaion (Self Empowerment Program) sessions last Tuesday to learn about controlling anger and resentment through meditation and other meditation benefits; try a short meditation, and talk to the counselors.

The presenters said that anger and resentment destroy every area of our lives: they cause mental diseases like depression and chronic physical ones like migraine, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes and even cancer; poison relationships; sabotage success and keep us from growing closer to God.

The good news is that it is possible to control our anger through meditation.

• Meditation creates alpha waves and increases the flow of serotonin in our brains, both of which help us feel calmer and better.
• Meditation also helps bring to surface and get rid of the anger and resentment stored in the deepest parts of our beings.
• Meditation helps bring about the change in attitude necessary for controlling anger, because it is when we are in the meditative state that we have the clarity to see the long term consequences of our actions.

Seven Quantum graduates talked about how meditation had changed their lives in the seven different sessions. Here is what one of them, Fatema Tuz Zohra Nodi, Graduate of 247^th batch, and student of Stamford University, said:

Every body at home was scared of me because of my anger. My brother didn’t talk to me. Even my parents talked to me very carefully because they thought I might get angry suddenly and start breaking things. The distance increased so much that I didn’t like being at home. I started spending more and more time in the university, thinking my friends might talk to me. But even they started deserting me.

One day I saw an advertisement in the paper, which said ‘Learn Meditation and Control your Anger and Resentment’. I decided to give it a try and did the course. In the first four days my anger just melted- whatever people said I just laughed. I kept repeating in my mind. “If I get angry I lose”, “If I get angry I lose”.

Since then, with regular meditation, all my relationships have improved. I even brought my younger brother to the Alokaion program. He later said ‘There really must be something in this otherwise how could apu (elder sister) stop shouting so suddenly?’ My parents can also depend on their daughter now.

Meditation helps you be in control of yourself and your life. I am very grateful to Quantum for this and I don’t know how to thank God enough for this.

On average almost a hundred people have been attending each Alokaion session in the recent weeks. Yesterday, 57 people were present in the first session, 60 people were present in the second session, and 92, 119, 136, 143 and 83 people were present in the third, forth, fifth, sixth and seventh session respectively.

Alokaion is a free and open program. Counselors are now available from half an hour before each session. You are welcome.