Spiritual healing sessions for Sri Lankan Cricket team

Sri Sri Ravishankar & Art of Living Foundation took the efforts to help the Sri Lankan Cricket team heal from the terrorist attack. Though they are recovering from the physical injuries, it is difficult to combat the mental stress created by the attack. The efforts of Sri Sri and Art of Living is commendable. I have done the course and it helps in beating the stress.

The article appeared in Economic Times Colombo

Sri Lanka Cricket Team Counselled by Guru after Lahore attack!

Fri Mar 20, 5:42 am ET COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka's cricketers on
Friday wrapped up a post-trauma course of deep breathing and yoga
taught by an Indian spiritual guru to overcome the shock of the Lahore
attack.

Swami Sadyojathah, from the Bangalore-based Art of Living Foundation,
taught the 23-member squad special breathing techniques and meditation
to "unlock the stress" after the deadly assault.

"Proper breathing techniques sort out the imbalances in the mind and
the body," Sadyojathah, sporting a long white beard and flowing robes,
told AFP. "We showed the Sri Lankan team how they can move beyond
Lahore and get back into their game," he said.

Seven Sri Lankan players and their British assistant coach Paul
Farbrace were wounded when unknown gunmen ambushed their convoy in
Lahore, Pakistan on March 3, killing eight Pakistanis. The squad
immediately flew home and the last wounded player, star batsman Thilan
Samaraweera, was discharged from hospital this week. The wives of
Samaraweera and captain Kumar Sangakkara also joined the four-session
course.

"There was so much written about their experience in the media, that I
think they mentally blocked themselves out of talking about it. Which
was OK by me," Sadyojathah said.

"Few players have resumed training. Some began playing in a domestic
tournament this week. So I think, mentally, the players are getting
stronger. The team is on the mend."

Geethanjana Mendis, head of the sports ministry's medical unit, said a
group of doctors had also conducted counselling sessions with the
cricketers and their families. "The cricketers seemed to prefer the
spiritual counselling, going by the 100 percent attendance for the
entire session," said Mendis. "In fact, Sangakkara wants the sessions
to continue."

Samaraweera said the counselling and meditation greatly helped his
wife, who was still traumatised by her husband's bullet wound.
"The sessions have helped her a lot," he said. "She is yet to fully
recover from the shock, but she is improving."

"Any time a thought, a sentence, or paragraph inspires you or opens up
your thinking, you need to capture it, like a butterfly in a net, and
later release it into your own field of consciousness."

> When you become very peaceful and quiet, you perceive the Existence. You say, "Oh, this is my nature, this is my true Self. What was I doing --- being agitated, yelling, shouting, doing all that stuff?" ..... Sri Sri !