Christina Sarich, Staff
Waking Times We often feel powerless to change the violence we see in the world. We feel utterly destroyed when war tears through Syria,
Ukraine, Iraq, Nigeria, and Afghanistan, or our governments put more ‘boots on the ground’ in yet another foreign country it has no business being in. The US has more
military installations on foreign land than any other people, nation, or empire in history, but there is
something even more powerful than this perpetual war machine. It is meditation.
If
just the citizens of the United States alone were to practice meditation for a mere ten minutes every day, concentrating on peace,
the wars would lessen, and eventually stop.
This is no bogus claim. It is backed by over
100 scientific studies proving that meditation stops war. It has been shown at
Harvard, at
Princeton, and
Yale. Add
MIT, and
Stanford.
Quantum physicist, John Hagelin describes the possibility to change the world’s peace barometer as such:“[With the use of meditation] there would be a radiated influence of peace that would affect the behavior of people throughout society. People would wake up in the morning and they would decide, “Hey, I don’t think I’ve got to kill anyone today.” What a novel thought – that with some expanded comprehension, with a less narrowly cramped, less narrowly self-centered, acutely stressed vision – that those desperate acts of terrorism simply don’t have a fertile field to fall on.” – [
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