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.
About 9,000 people, mainly CEOs and
middle-level managers from corporate houses, school teachers, students,
professionals and homemakers have attended Menon's programs during the last 15
years. During the training programs, Menon shares his experience with tribals in
different countries and explains how simple techniques of physical exercise,
vegetarian food, music, chanting of mantras and living in harmony with nature
can help overcome stress.
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.
"Stress is
increasing because things are getting costlier but incomes are not rising in
parity," said Menon, who conducts stress management programs in India and
abroad.
"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
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