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Take the Happiness Challenge for One Week The Albany Peace Project has created a powerful opportunity for you to increase your happiness and wellbeing, and support the community at the same time. It is a win-win!<\/p>\n Individuals are invited to practice a 15-minute meditation for peace during Peace Week, August 3-9, 2019. Participants can volunteer to meditate only once, or take the Happiness Challenge, and meditate for peace each day for 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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n No experience necessary!<\/p>\n Participants learn an evidence-based, mind-body tool to lead their bodies into a state known as Coherence, the Heart Lock-in\u00ae established by the Institute of Heartmath, which has been demonstrated to enhance clarity, foster wellbeing 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 wellbeing 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 amount of people become coherent, there is a corresponding reduction of violence. 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 to other adjoining areas.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n
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