| So, dear reader, here is another article which | | | | shown that light cigarettes result in the same risk of |
| promises to show you a way how to stop smoking. | | | | illness and death as a result of smoking. |
| If you are reading this article, most likely you have | | | | So, smoking has a very diverse negative effect on |
| already tried some methods and they did not help | | | | the human health, and there is no way out like light |
| you. Do you know why? The reason is, most of | | | | cigarettes or anything. But how to stop smoking? |
| those methods are not natural in the sense that they | | | | Most common methods used are: nicotine |
| use some external influence instead of relying on the | | | | replacement treatments, acupuncture, injections, |
| natural resources of our body. Yoga, on the contrary, | | | | medication. However none of these methods gives |
| first of all helps one to restore the inner balance. | | | | statistically proven strong effect. Besides, they may |
| Once the balance is restored, one can easily give up | | | | also have side effects and sometimes can be quite |
| smoking without any external help. We are now | | | | costly. What we suggest here is to give up smoking |
| going to describe how that can be achieved by | | | | in an easy and natural way by practicing Sahaja Yoga. |
| practicing Sahaja Yoga. But first let us give some not | | | | Sahaja Yoga is a method of awakening the Kundalini |
| very well known facts about smoking in attempt to | | | | energy discovered in 1970 by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi |
| raise more awareness about this subject. | | | | from India. According to the Indian tradition, Kundalini |
| Many of us heard this example in college that a drop | | | | is a spiritual power that lies dormant in the Sacrum |
| of nicotine can kill a horse. And many also heard a | | | | bone and has to be awakened by yoga practices. |
| typical answer that "in that case the horse should not | | | | Once awakened, it rises through the central energy |
| smoke". That is, this argument does not sound very | | | | channel in the spine and opens and enlightens the |
| convincing. What else should we know then about | | | | seven energy centers called chakras. When Kundalini |
| the effect of nicotine? Most of us know that nicotine | | | | opens the seventh chakra located in the limbic area, |
| is very harmful for the lungs, it can cause lung cancer | | | | yoga (i.e. the inner and outer integration of our being) |
| and other kinds of cancer. But nicotine also changes | | | | is said to take place. Kundalini awakening is the |
| the chemical functions in the brain. That is why it | | | | ultimate goal of every yoga practice, however only in |
| creates addiction like all other drugs. Researches done | | | | Sahaja Yoga, due to Shri Mataji's discovery, it |
| in the US have shown that teen smokers are more | | | | became effortless and easy to achieve. What |
| likely to have panic attacks, anxiety disorders, and | | | | Kundalini does is to balance the energy system, which |
| depression. Nearly half a million Americans die from | | | | consists of seven energy centers (chakras) and |
| smoking every year. One of every six deaths in the | | | | three energy channels (called nadis). When balance is |
| United States is a result of smoking tobacco, making | | | | established in the body, it naturally tries to preserve |
| tobacco more lethal than all other addictive drugs | | | | it and thus does not want to accept anything that is |
| combined. | | | | harmful. Thus all bad habits, like drinking, smoking, |
| But, apart from nicotine, there are many more | | | | drug addiction drop out automatically without the |
| harmful substances in cigarettes. Most of us don't | | | | need to do anything special about that. This sounds |
| know that, when smoking, we inhale thousands of | | | | like a very strong statement but it is so. Sociological |
| chemicals with the cigarette smoke: | | | | study done on 320 Sahaja Yoga practitioners showed |
| In 1936 there were 120 additives used in cigarettes, | | | | that just after the first year of practice about 75% |
| in 1959 their number increased to 450, in 1968 there | | | | stop drinking, smoking and using drugs. After 5 years |
| were 950 kinds of additives, in 1982, 3875, and today | | | | of practicing Sahaja Yoga less than 10% of |
| their number exceeds 4000! | | | | practitioners still have some of those bad habits. |
| So, what people smoke now is not just tobacco, it is | | | | One of the reasons why Sahaja Yoga is so effective |
| a complex mixture of various chemical components. | | | | against smoking is that the Kundalini energy works in |
| They are added for various purposes. Some give | | | | the 7th chakra, that is in the limbic area. It is the |
| flavors to the cigarettes, some work as | | | | limbic area that is affected by nicotine and other |
| preservatives, but many additives are used in fact to | | | | drugs thus giving one a sense of pleasure. But |
| increase one's addiction so that it becomes much | | | | meditation on the 7th chakra gives one even |
| more difficult to stop smoking than it used to be, | | | | stronger pleasure and at the same time does not |
| say, 50 years ago. Most of these substances have, | | | | cause any harm. As a result, one just does not feel |
| of course, a negative effect on the human health. | | | | any desire to continue smoking or taking drugs. |
| Light cigarettes. This is another myth created by the | | | | So, we invite you to try Sahaja Yoga and see for |
| tobacco industries. When they first came on the | | | | yourself how it will help you not only to get rid of |
| market in 1970, it was believed that light cigarettes | | | | bad habits, like drinking or smoking, but in many |
| are less harmful. However later researches have | | | | different ways. |