Yoga, meditation, natural curative you may have knowledgeable it all. Now you have another option as a new form of relaxation method promises to make sure the rampaging stress levels among the urban population. Based on the lifestyle practices of three primitive tribes in Orissa, Ahmadabad meditation expert Murli Menon claims to have come up with a new way of commerce with stress.

“There are several primitive tribes in India who live in close proximity with Nature. Their unique lifestyle practices can be a motivation to the urban folks to deal with stress efficiently. My method seeks to provide relief to the urban folks utilizing the knowledge of the tribes that they have gained over centuries through close association with Nature,” he says. The new ‘relaxation method’ is the result of research.

The research covered the Kadia, Mankadia and Kohl tribes of Orissa. These tribes live in the protected forest areas in Mayurbhanj district of the state. People typically have the notion that tribal people have a very simple life and they do not have any stress in life. But their life is full of challenges and stressful situations. But they have their own ways of handling the stress.

After watch the lives of the three tribes closely for nine years, Menon has come up with a total ‘package’, which he thinks will be able to deal with stress.

There are a few fundamental components in the way the tribal’s live. They are:

    * Diet

    * Dreams

    * Dance

    * Harmonized day-to-day activities.

All put together, it can work wonders as a stress buster, unlike most other tribes, the tribes observed are vegetarian. He says their food habits can prove to be beneficial to the urban people.

They are completely vegetarian. They even abstain from taking milk and milk products. They survive on different fruits naturally available in the forest area. They also consume a lot of fluid in the form of black tea, which enables them to beat the heat and humid weather,” he says. “Dreams are another vital component in Tribal Meditation, which can be used to predict the natural phenomenon if analyzed properly, The Kadia, Mankadia and Kohl tribes discuss their dreams together. People of these tribes assemble in their respective villages during the mornings to discuss their dreams.

Another stress-busting measure they practice is to dance together. The young and old get together during the evenings to shake a leg to the rhythmic beats of the drum. “Synchronized body movements to well composed music helps do away with the stress. Tribal Meditation requires practitioners to dance in the evening for a some time,”

They sleep early, for eight hours a day usually, and rise early. Laughter and clapping are two important practices in their lives. They have rituals where they clap with both hands and laugh out loud. Tribal Meditation combines all such practices to give a healing touch to stressed people.