Don’t forget to sign up before the semester ends!
Take the Happiness Challenge for One Week
and Help Yourself While Serving Others
The Albany Peace Project has created a powerful opportunity for you to increase your happiness and well being, and support the community at the same time. It is a win-win!
Individuals are invited to practice a 15-minute meditation for peace during Peace Week, Aug. 3 through 9, 2019. Participants can volunteer to meditate only once, or take the Happiness Challenge, and meditate for peace each day of Peace Week and be part of a research project that documents how increased happiness and well-being evolves through this work. Individuals can participate in person at various scheduled locations or through the internet by visiting PeacefulCities.org and clicking on the orange button that says REGISTER HERE. Meditations are scheduled at 7 a.m., noon and 7 p.m. both online and in person.
No experience is necessary!
Participants learn an evidence-based, mind-body tool to lead their bodies into a state known as Coherence, the Heart Lock-in® established by the Institute of Heartmath, which has been demonstrated to enhance clarity, foster well being, improve decision making, and generally lift peoples’ hearts to experience greater happiness and satisfaction. After achieving a coherent state, individuals are asked to radiate feelings of peace and well being to Albany during a week that has historically been a time of heightened violence. Twenty-three peer-reviewed research studies have demonstrated that when a relatively small number of people become coherent, there is a corresponding reduction of violence. (Dr. Karin Reinhold, Ph.D., professor of Mathematics and Statistics at SUNY Albany, reviews the crime data during peace week and compares it to similar statistics five years prior and determine how much of an impact our intentions for peace have made.)
The Albany Peace Project volunteers are performing this experiment to see how this approach works right here in Albany with intentions to offer the same opportunity in adjoining areas. Happiness levels of volunteers who participate for the entire week will be assessed at the beginning and the end of the week. How happy can you be? Find out!
For additional information, please contact Rosemary Schultz at r.schultz@hvcc.edu. Information and registration for the event can be found by clicking on the orange register button at PeacefulCities.org.
Published: Wed, 15 May 2019 12:15:32 +0000 by r.schultz