Starting Sunday, July 22 @ 11:59 PM, until Sunday, July 29 11:59 PM  your challenge is to ...

MEDITATE FOR A TOTAL OF 4 HOURS

In the previous weeks, we've challenged you with fitness and nutrition challenges to start a healthier lifestyle. This weeks challenge focuses on another signficant factor in wellness - mental health.

Did you know high levels of stress actually increase blood pressure? And as we all know, an increase in blood pressure greatly increases your risk in heart diseases. Relieving stress is a good way to decrease your risk and it's as simple as meditating.

According to Jain principles, a Samayik can be done to obtain tranquility, serenity, and mental equanimity.

So this week, we challenge you to meditate (or do a Samayik) for a total of 4 hours.

You can break that into 20 minute or 30 minutes sessions a day or however you'd like.

Suggested Reading:
JAINA - Learn more about Samayik, why to do it, and how to do it.
Highly Recommended - Chopra Center - 21 Day Meditation Challenge (Thousands of people worldwide have used this technique to build a habit of meditating everyday)





This challenge was closed on 7/29/2012

The Weekly Health Challenge is a self-audited program designed to motivate the JCSC Wellness participants in reducing BMI on a weekly basis.

How it works:

1. Each week there will be a new health challenge. You can accept the challenge by accepting the pledge for each challenge. You can only accept a challenge from midnight on Sunday to midnight on Tuesday.

2. At the end of the week, you can declare if you have completed the challenge. You can only mark a challenge as completed from midnight on Sunday to midnight on Tuesday.

3. Every week, the participants that complete the challenge will be recognized on this page.