QnA with Sri Sri

Q: I recently interviewed Dr. Fahri Saatcioglu from the University of Oslo, who is conducting research on what happens with the yogic breathing – The Sudarshan Kriya – at the genetic level. He has discovered some very exciting things, and has said that Sudarshan Kriya can actually affect the DNA.
Previously we used to think that we are static beings and not at all plastic. Do you think that this might even convince the most skeptical, resistant people to see that we are affecting the very core of life? Is that a way to open up and reach out to people?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Yes. You know, I’ve been seeing transformation happening in millions of people all these 32 years who have been doing this program. It is a very welcoming thing to see that science has proved what we see physically. Science is documenting logically and systematically what is really happening. So, Dr. Fahri’s research work is really very interesting. Similar work has been done by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore, India, and by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. They have found that meditation and breathing exercises, especially, can take people out of depression, and out of all these negative thought patterns that we tend to get into. It generates more positivity, and one feels happier and more relaxed from within. This is definitely happening.
In recent years, the body-mind medicine, how the thought influences the biochemistry, and how the biochemistry influences the behavior, is proved beyond any question now by the scientific community.