I'm a Veteran and, much like the soldier in this video, I too have been searching my place in life. For the last 4 years waking up is the hardest thing to do when every morning is like waking up everyday to 9/11. It feels like someone hit the overdrive button on the panic switch. Since I have discovered TM which was about 2 weeks ago my anxiety has become managable. I believe this is great for anything when it comes to controlling your thought process and quieting the mind.
Great to hear that Chris! I too am a Vet--TM is the best thing that ever happened to me! Keep it up, life gets better and more stress free all the time...
The David Lynch Foundation now will pay for instruction for ANY US veteran who wants to learn TM. Some TM centers are aware of this, and some are not. If your local center doesn't know about this, email Bob Roth at the David Lynch Foundation to get them speaking to each other. Edit: I'm told that that was a temporary offer. If you are a vet with PTSD, please get in touch with your local TM center. If you are not, the DLF may still be able to help at least a bit on a case-by-case basis, funding allowing.
Remember that you have the right to go to any TM center in teh world for the rest of your life and get help with your TM practice. In the USA, that followup program is free-for-life.
I am practising TM for about 41 years, and I can say I am satisfied with results in my life. For me it is practical thing, I feel more calm, with better health an more happiness. It is my experience with TM. Thanks to TM. I spent only about $300. And it was enough for basic technique. It is Croatian price.
I've been practicing TM since 1975, thanks to The Beatles, Merv Griffin and of course Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It has saved my life. Stress, blood pressure, past trauma, etc have all been eased. I wish everybody knew about and practiced TM.
This is the best explanation of T.M. i have ever heard. Im sure this will help many people. Stress kills. This simple technique saves and restores lives.
I started in 1976. I had a very successful career after that. It’s had to single out what would have happened had I not done TM, but I am sure it relaxed me. Also made it easy to sleep. If I have problems sleeping I just start meditating and what ever is bothering me will go away and I will fall asleep.
I have been meditating for 41 years. Knowledge only comes with study, but T.M. sets us up to assimilate what we study and see more broadly the connections between what we learn and what we already know. T.M. expands the awareness of the entire mind. We literally see, witness and absorb more from our senses. Colors are brighter, patterns are sharper. It's like getting a hi definition TV upgrade. T.M. occasionally has a down-side that is not politically correct to discuss. One, in my educated opinion, must take a break from T.M. after a year or so. It is very powerful and can create depression and anxiety conditions by entering the Absolute too often. Each individual can evolve only as much as his or her mind will allow. If we push the mind/soul too hard with too much T.M. it can create neurosis, depression and anxiety conditions. However it does not mean T.M. becomes useless. Nothing could be further from the truth. Taking a break from T.M. meditation by moving from twice a day to once every other day is what I have done over the years when challenged by this fact. This demonstrates how powerful T.M. is. Yes there is such thing as too much of a good thing. This includes, in my opinion T.M. but not until one reaches the full benefit saturation of T.M. which may or may not be reached by all people who practice it. After about ten years of regular daily T.M. I came to realize that I needed this "break" from meditation. And it worked remarkably well. I continue to meditate regularly to this day. My body tells me when I've reached the saturation point at which time I switch to Mindfulness meditation (the Zinn method). And continue to practice T.M. as my body/mind/soul requires. T.M. is an overall godsend to any individual under any circumstances. It has literally saved my life on three occasions. The most dramatic example was when I planned to be arrested at a political protest and was put in jail for a few hours. I had never been in jail before but was prepared for this event. I recall that being the highest stress I had ever felt in my life. Once processed and placed in a room to wait I began the T.M. technique 100% of the fear and stress melted away and I was in an incredibly safe place. I remained in meditation until I was released an hour later. Charges were dropped and I went about my day as if nothing had happened. I even went to the gym later that day and watched a movie with a friend that night. T.M. gives us control when we need it. It gives us perspective, awareness and depth but it does not magically educate us. We still need to study throughout our lives, we still need to compete and grow and do all the things the culture demands. Nothing changes except how well we handle ourselves and we get the deep rest we require. It's a fantastic gift for children. It gives them an insanely powerful tool to use when ever they are scared or without the council they may require. It is comforting and allows a person time to reflect on daily matters. Even a six year old needs this. Conversely older people derive great benefit from T.M. I'm taking an 80 year old friend to the T.M. center this week. She is thrilled and looking forward to the release of decades of stress neurosis and poor perspective. What a gift T.M. is. I recommend it as a Christmas or Holiday present. I learned T.M. at age 17. I really needed it at age 12. My first meditation was as though the weight of the world came off my shoulders and my senior year of High School was amazing. I graduated happy healthy and ready for college. I was supposed to go to MIU at their new campus in Fairfield the first year they were open but my Christian grandparents objected so I did not get to go to MIU. It was a personal tragedy but I'll leave you with saying that simply knowing T.M. and practicing faithfully for most my life has been one of if not the greatest gift I have ever received. Over time it improves the quality of life by giving us the rest we need and an essential connection with the Absolute (God?) where by we begin to express characteristics of love that might have never had the opportunity to be expressed without this essential life-tool. What they are speaking of here is all true and more. T.M. goes deeply into us and becomes a fountain of energy clear thought and heightened awareness. It is not a magic bullet but it gives anyone smart enough to practice it a fighting chance for a happy life.
I am starting my class in two days. I will be paying for the course. I'm happy to do so. Why negative comments about whether someone should pay or not? There are so many wasteful expenses in the world...this is not one of those!! I'll be back in a week or so after beginning my practice.
I've been doing TM for over fifty years. Yes, it is calming and relaxing and can help get you through a stressful day. Does it do all the things noted in the video? No, it cannot. What TM does is exercise the mind through daily repetition and help develop the ability to focus on one thought, word, or movement of breath. The mind normally jumps from one thing to another instead of staying focused. How many times have you started for your kitchen to do something and by the time you got there you wonder what the original reason was? Most people have experienced this or something similar. It's because your mind jumped to some other subject and it took off in that direction. TM helps correct that bad habit. Stress is caused by the mind jumping back and forth from issue to issue and never resolving much of anything. TM teaches you to focus on one thing, one thought and finish that before you start another. It really is that simple and doesn't require a four day course. I can explain TM to someone in four minutes and answer any questions they have in ten more minutes. From that point on it's simply practice and more practise focusing the mind on a mantra, your breathing, or if you want your navel. It really makes no difference what the object of your focus is.
If you’re “focusing on the mantra,” similar to how other meditation techniques focus on breathing or an object, then you’re not doing TM properly and you won’t get the touted results. No wonder you believe “it’ll help you get through your day, but nothing more”! You’re not really doing TM! The mantra is NOT “an object of focus,” like your breath or your navel. You say you’ve been doing TM for over 50 years, but if that’s true then it’s been over 50 years of incorrect technique. If you paid for TM then go find a certified teacher, because you’re entitled to lifetime help and you clearly need it, to correct your practice.
Good practice! I do it. But for those not having enough $ for the initiation, just access "Mahamritunjaya Mantra - Sacred Sounds Choir". Listen to it for 5-10 min per day for at least two weeks and tap into the Transcendental Absolute - the nondual Self, or "Sat-Chit-Ananda. The benefits mentioned in this interview are fine, but only one side of the coin. The traditional purpose/goal of TM in the Shankaraya Tradition is Transcendence leading to Enlightenment.
MY FRIEND WAS ABLE TO GIVE UP HER DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY MEDS, EVEN HER AMBIEN EVENTUALLY,,,JUST BY MEDITATING IN THE AM AND PM.....I SAY WOWWWWWWW....
It really depends on what is the cause of the problems. If it is purely stress-related, that wouldn't be too surprising. However, if there is a medical component, your friend should be aware that the psychological relief from reduction in stress isn't a substitute for medical treatment and she should consult the doctor who prescribed the meds before she quits any prescription med. A famous example: Michael J. Fox apparently got literally immediate (but temporary) relief from his Parkinsons Disease symptoms during his very first TM session, but he is still slowly dying from the disease. If he stopped seeing a doctor just because he felt better for a minute or two during TM practice-or even for a few minutes after-that would be a very seriously bad thing.
Dennis a very big congratulation to you for such a fantastic introduction to TM both you and Kristi were just great and Tina adorable for asking the right questions and adding her valuable comments. Viewing this presentation brought back fond memories of visiting your center last year with my sister. I am now back in Fortaleza, Brazil and I am having some really good success as a TM teacher. It is a pity that this presentation was not available in Portuguese. All best regards and good luck to you both.
Memory loss improvement. I find that to be true with no need :). Randomly I get this most vivid flashbacks that almost feel like a dream. Also I have been remembering dreams I have had at early child hood (27 now) lately while awake. In the past (and present) I have found my self remembering old dreams while dreaming and actually deciding to revisit that particular dream as if I could just go there :) but now I am gettimg those moments while I am awake... its beautiful. Makes me feel things inside my spirit that I only felt in those dreams. Leaving me with more knowledge experience and questions. Today I am learning the connection between both relms because the dreams and memories have been coinciding with events in day especially when I feel most confident that im on the right path for me. All is one .
Hi Etaund. I too have been remembering old dreams often since practicing this meditation. Sometimes I'll remember 3 or four strung together and it always makes me smile. I find it amazing that I'm starting to spontaneously recall these dreams from years and years ago, and even be able to reflect on them and their content. I'm with you, they leave me with more knowledge about myself and push me to ask interesting questions of myself. It seems like a real testament to the ability of this meditation to improve mental functioning.
The David Lynch Foundation teaches TM for free to all US \veterans and police and firemen and EMTs (all "first responders"). All TM centers are obligated to help everyone who ever learned TM through official channels for free, no matter what they paid to learn. And the TM organization is negotiating with national governments to have school teachers and the like trained as TM teachers sot hat all public school students can learn TM for free. And they can still got o any TM center in the world and get help with their meditation practice for the rest of their lives... for free.
A recurring theme here is "I could learn all that stuff without paying . . . . from the internet . . etc" As a long time TM meditator, my considered opinion is that is perhaps possible, but very unlikely. TM is easy, even effortless but also very subtle and delicate. (definitely not a focus thing, if you try to "focus" in TM, nothing happens!) I believe it takes personal coaching by a TM teacher to have much of a chance to achieve these subtle mental states. I compare it to the likelihood of becoming a superb golfer, just by getting clubs & a ball, but never a lesson or even ever seeing anyone swing a club correctly. It changed my life, far and away the best $ I ever spent. There is financial help for those who truly can't afford the full cost. I'm a cheap guy (Scottish) but this is one of those cases where your quality of life is more important than pinching pennies!
It is so great to see that TM is expanding into schools all over the world. And when they study the benefits they find that the school is completely transformed! This is what we need in education! Evidence-based results! TM works to change the functioning of the brain and the research is becoming so remarkably clear--that only the dullest mind could deny the benefits. The David Lynch Foundation is working with many countries--more than 30--to introduce TM in schools and health care ministries.
***** Freedom from sickness, ability to sleep, and giving up cigarettes and drugs are real things--I recommend TM to all who want to enjoy the best that life has to offer.
***** any kind of "washing" is a great thing, otherwise you will stink and you're going to become lonely. psychological hygiene is as important as physiological hygiene. Transcendence creates freedom from any kind of manipulations
***** TM isn't brain washing. I've been doing it for 40 years...have been a succesful businessman; raised a family and enjoy good and getting better mental and psychological health. Read the research...use your mind and stop exercising your preconceived notions, Sure...there are weak personalities that gravitate towards lots of "self help" modalities...and these people may adopt specific jargon and behaior in an unnatural, uninnocent way....but this phenomenon, in no way represents what TM does for and to the vast majority of people who adopt it as a regular practice.
The studies in schools aren't proof enough. The samples are small and the conclusions were biased. Also, who has donated the money for such studies are TM followers, so there's a conflict of interest. And there's much more going on...
I see lots of comments about people having practiced TM for 40 or 45 years, giving them lots of calmness and energy which is great. But none of them actually mentions higher states of consciousness in daily life, or awakening say like Eckart Tolle for example. Seeing reality for what it actually is, becoming fully present! This leads me believe that this form of Meditation which differs from all other forms of meditation is as Osho has previous said, just a deep state of rest and nothing more.
@R D Indeed, TM is a deep state of rest and nothing more. Actually , it is open-ended rest. The deepest state is called "samadhi" and even that is not the end-point as samadhi can mature as well. However, long-term outcome isn't about what happens during TM, but what happens outside of TM: resting outside of TM starts to approach the depth found during samadhi (which is trend deeper over time as well, though very very slowly). Because our sense-of-self is due to the mind-wandering activity of the main resting network of the brain, the default mode network (DMN), deeper/lower-noise/more efficient mind-wandering rest is appreciated as a lower-noise sense-of-self. Eventually a quiet, pure, simple *I am* starts to appear and become *permanent*: present at all times, in all circumstances, whether one is awake, dreaming or in deepest sleep. When the deep rest found during samadhi becomes such a permanent trait outside of meditation that *I am* is a 24/hour a day reality, this is called *atman* - True Self (*Self* for short). The appreciation of *atman* is the beginning of enlightenment in the advaita vedanta tradition that TM comes from.
Awesome video on TM. At present I attend the daily Global TM sessions which are marvelous in the sense that the world TM is meditating and transcending on a collective basis. As a longtime practitioner of Tai Chi & Qigong I find that after a TM session I feel very motivated to start the Qigong sessions where you can savor the blissful “present moment” or the NOW as mentioned by Ekart Tolle. Every TM practitioner will eventually reach his /her ultimate higher consciousness or bliss. Cheers. 😄🙏🙏
Meditation is free! you don't have to spend all that money.. just sit quietly and let the mind rest while focusing on your breath :) Being charged huge amounts of money for this is criminal..
There are also detailed studies that compare TM to other techniques of meditation. A Stanford meta-analysis found the TM technique to be twice as effective as other techniques in reducing anxiety--this is just one of many such studies comparing TM to other techniques. There are entirely different EEG patterns during the practice of TM. Saying that all meditation techniques are alike--or that everyone meditates is completely out of touch with reality. As a Vet whose life was transformed when I learned the practice of TM (I had tried many other techniques that were not beneficial at all!), I can say that TM is the single most amazingly effective technology I have ever seen. Check out the David Lynch Foundation website. There are short videos which show the remarkable transformation that takes place in the lives of people when they learn TM.
Thanks for that. Actually I am fully open to what you're saying if it indeed makes meditating more effective. I looked into TM a while ago and it was very expensive here in Nz! I'll look into it again and see what I come with. Thanks for your views :)
Chris Nichols Hi Chris, I was in NZ last year (the most beautiful country I have ever visited in my life!), and happened to meet some of the TM teachers. They were very impressive. But in reality, it doesn't actually matter if one is impressed with their TM teacher or not. The technique is taught in a very precise and detailed manner. And that is why it is taught only in the specific five day course, by trained TM teachers. When you learn it, you will understand why it must be taught this way, and can't be learned from a book or DVD. And what great good fortune for you to live in that amazing place! May your life grow and prosper in every way!
Happy30Too Thanks for the kind words. And yes, fortunately I do realise how lucky I am to live here! I think I'll seriously look into the TM as even the attempts I've been making to meditate so far have already changed my outlook on life for the better. Peace to you my friend.
Just a few famous people who have learned/ practice TM: All of the Beatles, Mike Love, Howard Stern, Russell Brand, Russell Simmons, David Lynch, Jerry Seinfield, Ellen Degeneres, Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Aniston,Clint Eastwood, Jim Carrey, Deepak Chopra,Mia Farrow, Jane Fonda, Heather Graham, Merv Griffin, George Hamilton, Goldie Hawn, Jim Henson, Hugh Jackman, Mick Jaggar,George Lucas, Mary Tyler Moore, Katy Perry, Tom Petty, Burt Reynolds, Priscilla Presley, Sting, Liv Tyler, Dr oz, Donovan...
***** That may be mostly true, with the exception of the David Lynch Foundation that has been able to have TM taught to many schools around the country. A lot of people chose to donate anonymously as well, so it's really not fair to assume that they don't. I've spoken with many teachers, not just TM teachers who have something valuable to share that when they give it away and the person who gets it has nothing personally invested in it, then they don't appreciate it as there is an unbalanced/one-sided energy transfer. It's like when a parent gives their kid a brand new fancy car for their kid's birthday and not knowing the true worth of what it took to obtain the car, the teen doesn't appreciate it and often you hear they end up wrecking it or worse.
***** So you're saying that plumbers shouldn't charge people for emergency plumbing work? Or dentists shouldn't charge money. Or doctors shouldn't charge money. Or psychiatrists shouldn't charge? The list goes on and on.
+kristen5747 These days, TM costs $960 for adults, $480 for college students and $360 for high school students. Homeless vets with PTSD and veterans of the Iran/Afghanistan wars learn TM for free, at atleast some TM centers. And there is work going on to get government employees trained as TM teachers so that they can teach TM for free as part of their regular government work. Several presidents and prime ministers of major countries have learnerd TM over the past few decades, so this is going easier than you might expect: Narendra Modi, current Prime Minister of India. Shinzō Abe, current Prime Minister of Japan. Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan. Joaquim Chissano, former President of Mozambique. Juan Manuel Santos, current President of Colombia. Dilma Rouseff, current President of Brazil.
And who gives a shit about all these people with huge incomes and even bigger ego? What about Granny Smith down the road in that cheap housing? All this celebrity adulation is sickening to me. No other meditation group I am aware if does this, and I have been meditating most of my 76 years. I find it despicable and repulsive. I care about ordinary people. I have never charged for meditation instruction. I find it obscene.
@coojsta69 I'm in total agreement, there's no need to pay! It's touted as not being based on a "belief," or "philosophy," but I went through the training decades ago and enjoyed it. *However,* my initiation involved my teacher chanting some stuff at a picture of a character he called Guru Dev? I didn't find this offensive, as I'm very open minded about religion, but, if this is still going on, then why aren't they up front about it? Also, the "special mantra," is age specific, when I looked them up on the net, I found I was given one that was specific to my age when I was in my 20s. So, again, why not be honest about that? I've recently returned to meditation and am in no doubt about its usefulness. However, I'm not using my original mantra. The Benson institute assert that *any* word repeated in the same way will produce the same result. And Herbert Benson's book on the subject, "The Relaxation Response," costs a few quid/dollars. So, my advice would be to read that and off you go. The T.M. people are after your money, at the end of the day. Also, let's not even get into the whole Yogic "Flying," nonsense! :O)
+Wild Heart This TM given out special mantras is just ridicules :D I don't think mantras works that well if they are given to you, mantras works best with meditation if you try different ones out and cling to the one/ones that you feel works.. Some meditation methods consists of many different mantras all defined by what's coming to your mind in the current moment, other mantras are simple repeated words and there is even meditation methods that has mantras consisting of meaningless sounds.
+orion9k Quite ;O) I'm following the guidelines as laid out in Herbert Benson's book and that puts me in the same sort of state as did T.M. I am a bit confused sometimes as to whether I should be exhaling through my mouth though. It seems to be recommended according to some advice.
Wild Heart If you read what the American Heart Association says about research on Benson's Relaxation Response vs TM, they say that the Relaxation Response, even after 45 years of research out of Harvard, doesn't have the evidence to allow them to recommend it for the treatment of hypertension, while TM does. That sounds like a significant difference, to me. As well, Herbert Benson puts the RR squarely into the "focused attention" category of meditation practices, while TM is a "mind-wandering" technique that is neither like focused attention NOR is it like mindfulness. FInally, if you read the latest papers about mindfulness and concentration, they talk about wakefulness and how such practices really are NOT about relaxation but about training attention. TM is merely a relaxation practice. The TM course helps the student come to an intuition about setting up a situation so that the mind can wander in a way that maximizes rest. It's not about training attention, but about enhancement of natural mind-wandering sot hat it becomes most restful. THAT is the most important difference: TM is about mind-wandering while virtually all other practices are about attention training.
+Lawson English Hi. That's interesting, as The Benson people claim the same effects, which are documented in both of his books and also in videos on UA-cam etc. I'm no medical expert, but given that their research into their methods is conducted at Harvard, I would've thought that they have some credentials for making these claims? I've personally tried TM *and* Benson's "Relaxation Response," and quite honestly can't see a huge amount of difference in the effect/results myself. I've also tried Russell Simmons' recommendations which seem remarkably similar to those of TM and again, the same "results."
+Wild Heart You went to your local TM center and learned TM from a trained TM teacher and went back every week for the first month and every month for the first year for free checking as has been the recommendation for years and years, and you don't see any difference? Narendra Modi, current Prime Minister of India learned TM. Shinzō Abe, current Prime Minister of Japan learned TM. Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan, learned TM. Joaquim Chissano, former President of Mozambique, learned TM. Juan Manuel Santos, current President of Colombia, learned TM. Dilma Rouseff, current President of Brazil, learned TM. What did these folks see in it that you didn't? I can only suggest that you go back and get checked again, and explain to your TM teacher that you just don't see any difference between TM and Benson's Relaxation Response and see if they can clear up the misunderstanding.
you can use any mantra you want, for example the mantra so ham. just make sure nobody knows the mantra. Repeat the mantra in silence. Here you are, your free explanation on tm.
It differs from other forms of meditation insofar as it is very easy - no concentration. Concentration is one of the few mistakes that you can make with TM. And it works. Anybody can do it. And it is the meditation most examined by scientists. Even non-meditating scientists found out that it works, even if they were very sceptical before. And you don't have to change much about our life. If you smoke, you will stop smoking in time, without any effort. I tried to stop smoking many times. 3 1/2 years after starting TM I just stopped smoking without any difficulties. TM is completely effortless. You just have to do it regularly, like brushing your teeth.
I forgot one thing: A meditative state is not guaranteed. But what is guaranteed is that you start to "unstress", i.e. to throw out inner tensions and strains. The result of that will be a meditative state. It may come and go and finally stay. But nobody knows when that will be. It depends on the quantity and the kind of stresses that a person has.
You probably could. The old Monk experimented with all sorts of ways of teaching TM over the years, but decided that in-person instruction was the most effective and so that is how it is taught by the organization that he set up. People don't do as well via televised lectures compared to face-to-face interaction. That's why Skype-based interaction is not the primary way of dealing with doctors or lawyers or anyone else. And its easier to send a TM teacher to a refugee camp in Uganda than to set up a Skype connection, for example, and most places are far easier to get to than a refugee camp in Uganda.
Every TM beginner without exception is given a mantra or word to be repeated mentally every time he or she sits down to meditate. The mantra is given in the course of the initiation ceremony. The aspiring meditator is told that this is her or his own personal mantra and that it must on no account be revealed to anyone else - otherwise it will lose its power. The sense of specialness in which the giving of the TM mantra is shrouded might seem to suggest to the individual meditator that he or she alone has been given that mantra and that the TM organization must have dispensed many thousands, even millions of different mantras to corresponding numbers of meditators. The reality, as told by instructors who have defected from the movement over the years, is rather different. A variety of sources suggest that only sixteen different mantras are given to new meditators. Moreover, the mantra one gets is determined solely by one's age at the time of initiation. The complete list seems to be as follows : message me
Mantras are like vehicles, you need to learn properly how to use them. That's what the instructors are for, they are highly trained how to guide the student how to use it properly. When dealing with the delicate functioning of the mind, it's way better to not fool around.
The mantras are never to be spoken aloud nor written down. THey are kept in memory only. Telling people to "keep a secret" is the easiest way to get that point across to 10-year-olds and TM is meant to be taught to 10-year-olds as well as adults. It turns out that when you learn nonsense words from a written list, they are stored in visual memory in the brain. This is likely different than where a nonsense word--which you never say out loud or write down, OR EVEN DELIBERATELY THINK AT ALL outside of meditation practice--is stored. Given that TM is a specific mental practice, it isn't outrageous to claim that following specific instructions associated with that practice are important even if you don't know why they are important.
Hi Lawson, I like the answers you give here. You should also look into answering questions on Quora.com. I've been doing that for some time and it seems to help people a lot. Far less bonkers people than found in UA-cam, Quora is for more serious thinking people, and the questions/answers are curated to keep things civil. Bring your knowledge there, too!
When they talk about consciousness and the full potential and the source of thought it sounds like you need electron microscopes and multi-million dollar equipment, etc and that was a big stumbling block for me for years. I have been doing TM about 40 years and it happens to be the simplest thing of sitting down closing the eyes and doing nothing. Then you'll begin to notice that you seem to be 'existence'. That's it, and there is power in that.
Exactly. Its so awesome how u step imto tm at the right time in ur life. I for one have been doimg this for years without even knowing of tm lol. To me it feels like accepting the reality that all is one is the main key to experience the fact in it self
John Ny I meditated while being a student and this is how I used it. I normally did not study and had poor grades . If I didn't get it in class I didn't get it. After beginning to meditate I was able to literally sit down and read every sentence and every paragraph and every chapter of Dr. Grob's 2 1/2 inch thick giant textbook Basic Electricity and Electronics. I made straight A s in the course and I understood the material. That was 39 years ago. i.e., your student years can actually be productive and serve you all your life. That's 1 way to use it.
There are many "tools" to fix your psychological and physiological ailments and anxieties. But there's also the eternity dimension in our existence. I became a born-again Christian almost six years ago. This means that I received in faith Jesus, the Son of God, who atoned for our sins on the cross of Golgatha and rose from the dead, as my Savior and Lord. Being a Christian and following Jesus in faith has been kind of "a total solution" to my problems. I didn't receive Jesus as "a tool" to fix my earthly ailments, but my faith in Him has helped my in those, too.
My apologies. My TM receptor has been broken lately, hence my presence. I would explain my reasons, but many people would still disagree and continue to shove their "beliefs as fact" down other people's throats, and we certainly cannot have that negativity. And here come the comments to support my point... :D Oh, and I'm a bit angry at the response to the Orlando shooting!
You do NOT need to pay for anything, just sit straight up, choose a single word to focus on, try to stabilize your breathing, and listen to peaceful music/sounds (optional), enjoy.
I got it for free 18 years from TM Teacher in Sydney, & was horrified to hear of the price people will pay in the US, for a free gift from India to humanity. Can you imagine the people of India paying for this? Western culture commodifies EVERYTHING!..... Btw Air & water are also a gift! Tell that to Nestle!
A mantra is like training wheels for the mind, eventually you want to get rid of the mind and even what you think you are....Ramana Maharshi used to say don’t meditate just have a quite mind...it’s like “meditating” 100% of the time...he was the saint’s saint of the 20th Century...listen to Candice O’Denver, do short moments until it becomes natural...you do it all the time!
To say "don't meditate just have a quite mind" is not very helpful. And it's certainly not like meditating all the time. It is just moodmaking. Ramana Maharshi is one of those gurus that may be enlightened but have no method or technique to help other people to reach this state of mind. Osho (Bhagwan) once said that if you tell a person just to be himself, he will remain his neurotic and narrow-minded self for the rest of his life.He is like a doctor that tells his patient: Just go home, basically you are healthy.
what about the effects of the brain being inundated and poisoned by radio frequency radiation from microwave emitting cell towers, cell phones, base stations, etc? clearly this is a problem that needs to be addressed ASAP! Have there been studies on this yet??
Estherfaith Yes. 20 mins morn and evening. It is really helpful. All the religious stuff associated to it is optional. I just do the meditation. I did the course but it is not required at all. Google is you're friend. Good luck
...I understand that TM is a very powerful form of meditation but why is it so expensive? Wouldn't more people benefit from it if it was made available to the everyday man in the street? It should be taught in schools to help children at such a young age, to assist with the pressures of everyday life growing up! Or base it on a donation premise of whatever the person can afford!
Richard Reid TM teachers need to live. They have to eat, pay rent, taxes, insurance - just like you. Also, TM is a lifetime program. You can go in to you local TM center or any other one for a free checking or an advanced lecture next week, next year or ten years from now. You just pay once, but you enjoy it for the rest of your life.
Wh en she said it's like adding oil to the machine to reduce friction! Reminds me of my younger days when me and my wife had baby oil bashes in bed. Those were good times! Luv doing TM.
Disconcerting to see DR. Oz in this video lol The Maharishi said that anyone could benefit no matter your beliefs or moral ideas but one would hope that the practice would weigh in on ones honesty and diminish vanity.
I understand that TM is efficient and powerful tool. But I cannot understand why they say that TM is the best than other kinds of meditations, such as Chan (Zen or Dyan) meditation or Kriya in yoga..
+John Ulzii There are many kinds of meditation, and research has been conducted on dozens of them. Maybe for some people, other types of meditation work fine, and they are happy with them. My personal experience, after trying other types of meditation and then learning TM, was that it is entirely different--although being simple to do and natural. The mind transcends effortlessly with TM, and I found that happened only with TM. I love it and it has changed every aspect of my life in the most wonderful way...
+John Ulzii All TM teachers train the same way and teach teh same way (including memorized hand-gestures, body-language, tone-of-voice, and exact words) and so Maharishi claimed that all TM teachers would be equally effective at teaching TM. If you want to say that some specific Zen or Dyan or Ch'an or whatever teacher is better than a TM teacher, great. You might be right. But there are thousands of active TM teachers in the world, and negotiations to train 100,000 or so employees of national governments, disaster relief workers of the United Nations, etc, are going on as we speak. I'll see your one or two gifted individual meditation teachers, and raise you 100,000 consistently trained government employees.
I agree, many meditation traditions will lead to the same goal, eventually. But TM has been shown to be more effective, easier, and quicker to show objective results. TM's stated goal is to make life in the WORLD more peaceful, effective and joyful.
I can tell you from experience that Kriya is religious nonsense and moralistic claptrap that does not work. At least not for me. Apart from the advanced light and sound meditation. As to your question, my dad is better than your dad, my jesus is better than your buddha; and because Maharishi said so!
More people learn TM for free through the David Lynch Foundation than learn through the TM centers, but the TM centers need to keep their doors open to provide the free lifetime followup program that all TMers receive and that costs money.
Dear Georg Vogt, this is most stupid nonsense. First of all, this knowledge does not come from Hinduism but from the VEDA which is older, than Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism all together. This is, what some fanatic christian priests obviousliy do not comprehend. they do not even comprehend their own scriptures. Matthew 11, 7-15 says very clear, that not Jesus is "the one to come" but it would be a reincarnation of John the Baptist, who also is a reincarnation of Elijah. (Yogananda says in his biography that Jesus was the disciple of Elijah one incarnation before). This makes very clear that whole Cristianity is baseless. Jesus was a great saint, but it is wrong to call him the only one "son of God" an he is not a part of the divine Trinity. This is a chritian invention and it comes from a time when every local prince or king called himself "son of Jupiter" or "son of Zeus" etc. Look to the stars. Some of them are bigger than our milky way, which consists of over 100 TRILLION Stars. All this was created by god. And some christian priests want to reduce the size of god to the size of their own tiny brain or a little book called bible. Amaizingly these people always claim to exactly know the will of god. But what they know is not even a drop of the ocean. Nevertheless they claim to know everything better than those, who jump into the ocean of transcendence every day. I think, you should better reflect on who you are before you tell others how to live. But back to the point: TM is not from Hinduism. It is just the other way round, and that is a big difference. Hinduism ist from Veda, as well as all other (nowdays degenerated) religions. VEDA is not a religion. It is a root knowledge. And the proof for this is that in all cultures all over the world the days of the week are called after the planets sun-day, Moon-day, Mar(s)di, Merc(u)redi, Jeudi (Jupiter), Venerdi(Venus-day 0 Frey(a-)tag), Satur(n)daqy etc. You will find this in all cultures since time immemorial, because this vedic knowledge was spread all over the world in times before our known history. All great saints draw their knowledge from this source, even if they don´t know. I.e.the Yoga knowlegde is much older than Jesus and even there you find everythig that Jesus told. That maked it most probable, that Jesus learned from the indian yogis. You may not like this, but you will have to geit used to this idea, because the original bible has been hidden in the Vatican all the time and it includes all the texts about karma, reincarnation and the instructive years of Jesus which were taken away from the bible in 553 in Konstantinopel. And when these texts will be republished (and this could be very soon) you better take your heart drops before you read. Best regards anyway D.
between the people who pay the fee and those who receive scholarships people who wish to meditate will be able to meditate. cost isn't the worse thing in the world. the money isn't being put to nefarious purposes.
@@LawsonEnglish In November 2000, the GCWP made a proposal to the President of Suriname, offering $1.3 billion over three years for a 200-year lease of 3,500 acres... The Global Country of World Peace is a branch of TM. In 2005, the Global Country bought an 800-plus acres farm in Goshen, New York, USA for $4 million in cash... The TM/ Maharishi Foundation has enough money!
Unfortunately, Transcendental Meditation didn't work for the guy who introduced it to the West, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who preached sexual abstinence to his followers but couldn't stop himself from being lead by the nose by his lust, having sexual affairs with several female students (some were married). And it doesn't seem to have worked for it's primary media spokesman, David Lynch, who became a wrathful, foaming-at-the-mouth idiot when documentary filmmaker David Sieveking (himself a TM practitioner at the time) asked him sincere but probing questions about disturbing things he observed while doing his documentary on the TM organization. Lynch threatened to sue Sieveking if the young filmmaker didn't allow Lynch to sanitize the documentary. How enlightened! Oh, those "hundreds" of scientific "studies" that TM advocates like to claim in favor of TM: bogus. Dr. Dennis Roark, former Maharishi International University (now Maharishi University of Management) Dean of Faculty: “During my time at MIU, I had occasion to examine the scientific claims of the movement, to interact with those who had reportedly performed the research, to study the metaphysics, philosophy and religion associated with the TM technique, and to work with the founder of the movement and the college. It is my certain belief that the many scientific claims both to factual evidences of unique, beneficial effects of TM and to theoretical relationships between the experience of TM and physics are not only without any reasonable basis, but are in fact in many ways fraudulent. “Confirmed to me by investigators at MIU was the suppression of negative evidence that these investigators had collected. Strong bias was present in selecting only data favourable to a conclusion that was made prior to the data collection. Because of the strong authoritarian (essentially cultic) aspects of the movement, only results supporting ideas generated by the movement leadership could receive any hearing. The ‘scientific research’ is without objectivity and is at times simply untrue.”
Ironically, Roark was involved with TM years before the school he was working at published its first study on meditation, so all his claims are about marketing pamphlets, not published research.
Untrue. "Researchers" at MIU (Orme-Johnson, Dillbeck, Nidich, Wallace, and many more) had authored numerous papers starting in 1973, and throughout Roark's tenure as Dean of Faculty and Chairman of the Physics Department at MIU (now MUM), which was 1975-80. Orme-Johnson's list, "Summary of Scientific Research on Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program" lists somewhere around 40 papers published at MIU between 1973 and 1982, and said papers constitute about one-sixth of his list. Arguably this nine year period was the "golden age" of TM research, and Roark was the boss for over half this time.
The two women talking about blood pressure are raising my blood pressure. TM is a form of mental masturbation but it does work. It is extremely pleasant to do.
I got my mantra back in 1973 for 35 bucks. Like how they market this stuff now! Two hotties talking about and damn at age 59 I still have a great sex drive!
All meditative practices lead to the same state. After you learn how to trigger the meditative state, a mantra or any specific method is not needed. Meditation can be learned on your own. Other methods are not inferior to TM. TM however, offers a guided method that greatly personalizes and expedites the learning process. The fee is for coaching, not for the benefit of gaining access to a superior method. I've been meditating for about 17 years. In retrospect, I would have started with TM in a heartbeat.
+Christian Russell "All meditative practices lead to the same state." Actually, different meditative practices produce distinctive states, while certain practices produce similar states.
+Faraday Defan I agree. There are many different types of meditation, this causes a lot of confusion. Some people meditate on a thought, some people meditate on a mantra. Many people think contemplation is the same as meditation. Years ago I ran into Allen Ginsberg and we had a discussion of his book Mind Breaths which as about meditation. It was a very confusing conversation as I found his idea of meditation was very different than mine. To me its better not to mix TM with anything else, because I know what TM means, but I have no idea of the other Frame of reference refers to. And yes there are other meditations that can be effectively the same as TM
+randy szymkowski Appears you are still suffering....hope you recover...did it take all 23 years to arrive at this conclusion...inquiring minds want to know.
R Chandler LOL! You're not listening to me sir. You're spinning and distorting my words. I'd compare TM to drinking booze or smoking pot. It may have a relaxing effect, numbing would be a more accurate, but it did not raise my awareness or consciousness. It did quite the opposite. If TM makes you an enlightened person, then great. Other people have had negative experiences as well. Go to minet.org and become truly enlightened. J'ai guru dev buddy!
TM and Vipassana have different effects. TM enhances sense-of-self, mindfulness and concentration both reduce sense-of-self. There are long-term differences in health effects as well. The most important difference is that Vipassana is attentional training you master, and so, the relaxation effects become less and less over time as you become better at paying attention, while TM is not something you master, and so the relaxation effects remain the same whether you have been doing TM for a few months or a few years or a few decades.
There is no "method" to TM. TM is [hopefully] an intuition about thinking a mantra without effort that results from the student going through the carefully choreographed 4-day long (an hour or so a day) TM class. It turns out that there WAS a head-to-head study of NSRand TM done many years ago by a team of researchers from Harvard (mindfulness meditation), Maharishi University of Management (TM) and "low-mindfulness relaxation (essentailly NSR). The NSR technique had no long-term effect on the practitioners : www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2693686 (ALexander et al 1989) While the official NSR course materials didn't exist when the study was performed, as far as I know, the "low mindfulness relaxation" group was taught using the mantra meditation practice similar to that described in eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ144234 (Smith 1976): "CMS involves mental activity centered around a meaningless word, called a "focus." The focus we will use is the word "shanti." I will first read the instructions to acquaint you with them, and then I will reread them slowly and would like you to begin practicing as I read. We will then practice as a group for IS minutes. Here arc the instruc- tions: Sit up straight in a comfortable position." "Close your eyes. Give yourself a few minutes, about two, to settle down. Let the focal word repeat itself in your mind as effortlessly as possible; let it come to you and start on its own. If it won't repeat itself on its own, you may gently begin it, providing you do so with a minimum of effort. Whenever you notice you have been distracted or that your mind has wandered, let your mind return to the focal word as gently and effortlessly as possible. Let this happen easily, without making a big thing of it. Distractions, especially inner distractions, are an important part of the processes involved in CMS. They arc normal and healthy. You are practicing CMS when they occur." The NSR-like study reported a few short-term effects ( 6 months) in psychological tests people using those instructions that were comparable to the results found in the TM group. However, in the MUM-Harvard paper, the researchers tracked the subjects fo3 months for blood pressure, fpr 18 months (for psychological tests) and for 3 years (for longevity -these were all rest-home residents in their 80s, so, 3 years is a LONG time), and found: that the NSR group did worse than the control group on every measure, which was predicted by both the mindfulness researcher and the TM researchers, though not the researcher who thought that the NSR group would do just as well as TM. Data collection was done by graduate students at Harvard University, and data collectors were blind to which subjects were doing what practice. The TL;DR: no, NSR, is NOT the same as TM. TM is taught iusing a carefully rehearsed interactive teaching method over a period of 4 days, while NSR and similar practices are learned from reading books or watching non-interactive videos. The difference is quite obvious in the short and middle term and while there's no research on 30-to-50 year NSR practitioners, there is with TM.
i am sry to tell you and the organisation that i know both..the Uncle from my Girlfriend is TM Teacher and i know that both methods are exactly the same.I Know that you have to act like you do..i wish you only the best but dont promote a method that cost so much...oh what about the TM Mantras?Its personal?..lol..no its not..its given by Age and gender..you can easily google the List of Mantras...btw i love the Movie David want to fly!..
+Mark Arend Anyone who persists in calling TM a technique at this level of detail in a discussion simply doesn't grok TM. TM IS NOT a technique. Oh, and I am not a TM teacher, so I don't have to "act" like anything.
***** thanks, I use the technique offered by natural stress relief, also taught by ex TM teachers and also have had a look at ACEM. Spread the word as it's a shame people are getting ripped of by TM.
Alan Crabb Absolutely false! As a Vet I tried many of these 'just like TM' meditations. Headaches, confusion and wasted time...TM is entirely different--and can't be learned online or in a book. It just isn't the same. I recommend doing things in a proper way. There are hundreds of scientific studies verifying the benefits of TM. And there have been many studies comparing TM to these other techniques. TM is found to be twice as effective in many of these meta-analyses..Anxiety, high blood pressure, etc. Yes, I know they claim they are teaching something the same a s TM. Not so.
Not the case with Natural Stress Relief and you can see that by TMs criticism of it, which is that it doesn't offer the support of a teacher. I have been using Natural stress relief for a couple of years and it is great and cost me £10. So you may have tried these ' just like TM meditations' but it doesn't sound like you tried NSR.
Alan Crabb but have you tried Acem and NSR? The two that are basically the same (so I understand) as TM? I have been practicing Vipassana for years, but it is a completely different method entirely. I really appreciate the folks that have tried TM, Acem as well as NSR and to see what they feel. I don't like the fact that TM is so expensive while just about every other form is offered for free for the betterment of society. I can afford it, but am a bit put off that the org I am looking at wants $1K to learn it.
Happy30Too Hi, straight after my discussion with you I realised I was arguing against something I hadn't tried. I had a search on the net for critical posts concerning TM and even though there was a lot none of them questioned the results. Next I looked for a TM teacher and there was a course starting next day. Went to the intro, paid my £300 and started doing my meditation. Had flu not long after, so stopped-too ill- but started again in the new year. I have found the results after 3 weeks amazing and having a teacher has meant I am doing it correctly. Before I was trying to focus on the mantra and concentrate on it. I'm dealing with work much better, I see solutions to problems that arise, I'm more focused, more positive. My ex has mentioned that I seem more grounded. So thanks for that conversation, I may never have done it otherwise. I would recommend TM because you get a teacher and a manual didn't work for me. And it was only £300 which you can pay in installments.
It’s important to understand that yoga is there to take one away from all the stresses and pressure of material values. In the end you should be living like a Hindu monk with no interest whatsoever in wealth or fame. It really is not there to make one more successful in business or increase your social skills.
wechseln The Transcendental Meditation differs from a neutral healing method by the religious accentuation. Maharishi-authorized TM teachers vowed in an affidavit to exclusively use the Mediation method mediated within the Association and to obey and worship the Maharishi and his organization. The delivery to the masters of tradition is at the heart of the "puja," the ritual introduction of each meditator to the Transcendental Meditation, in which Hindu deities are called. Report of the Federal Government 1979 on youth religions page 10 The review of meditation by the standardized checking system deliberately does not address the personal problems of the meditator. The problem solving is to be done only in a schematic way through a 30-point system and through increased meditation. However, unworking the problems that have been broken up is a method that activates psychic contents, including frightening and threatening ones, and raises concerns about mental health issues. Thus, according to doctors, the application of Transcendental Meditation may have a relaxing and positive effect, but with those meditators who are either unstable or in crisis, cause very negative effects that neither the method nor the organization can and will respond to , However, this presents a danger especially for young people who meditate extensively, which in some cases can lead to severe mental disorders. Importantly, during recruitment, the TM is only touted as a technique of relaxation, although the TM movement is focused on permeating public life with power and influence. The Federal Government has publications of the so-called "World Government of the Age of Enlightenment" in Seelisberg / Switzerland, from which these intentions emerge.
Frank Feldman absolutely wrong. Studies show regular practice of TM leads to more a integrated, self actualized psychological sate of being.....less susceptible to peer pressure. Look at the research. My experience after over 40 years of regularly practicing TM is that life is more vital, activity is progressively more fulfilling...more enjoyment. I feel more my self, less over shadowed by by stressful pressures, so i can deal with life in a stronger, more dynamic way.
jrcsamad If you're not addicted to it, like a drug, try not doing it for the next 48 hrs. BWAHAHAHA. You can't, of course. You'd have a nervous breakdown. You poor fool. You've wasted your life.
Frank Feldman Funny you should make this comment. My son is visiting me from out of town for a few days and because we are so busy doing stuff, getting caught up, i have been skipping meditations or doing a very abbreviated session. I wouldn't do this otherwise as i have, over the years made it a priority because of the benefits that accrue with regular practice. While, i won't continue without my regular practice....you'll be glad to know that, in this hiatus from regular practice, i am feeling fine...no nervous breakdown...and not, at all feeling foolish.
Frank Feldman annnnd....the peer reviewed research on regular practice of TM shows that brain waves, as indicated by EEG patterns, shows that brain activity becomes progressively more coherent within hemispheres and between hemispheres. That coherence has been very highly correlated through related studies to higher IQ, creativity, moral reasoning, better concentration and other very beneficial qualities. All these increase with regular practice......increased brain wave coherence with associated increase of these qualities. Doesn't seem logical to stop doing TM based on this.
I definitely agree that it's dumb that they want you to pay to learn how to meditate. It's like... Hey! check this out, you can change your life exponentially doing something people have been doing for centuries, just pay me $$$$
Maharishi was an evil man WATCH DAVID WANTS TO FLY and he was not a maharishi He made that up If you investigate you will find out the truth But most people cant take the truth I worked hard for the TM movement and gave every thing only to find it was only a cult
You and a thousand others. There was always another course to pay for, another herb to buy, another technique to learn. We need to ask: Why have so many thousands left?
Silly and uninformed comment! Do some research, and you will find that there are more than 300 scientific studies that show the benefits of TM in every area of the physiology. There are also detailed studies that compare TM to other techniques of meditation. A Stanford meta-analysis found the TM technique to be twice as effective as other techniques in reducing anxiety--this is just one of many such studies comparing TM to other techniques. There are entirely different EEG patterns during the practice of TM. Saying that all meditation techniques are alike--or that everyone meditates is completely out of touch with reality. As a Vet whose life was transformed when I learned the practice of TM (I had tried many other techniques that were not beneficial at all!), I can say that TM is the single most amazingly effective technology I have ever seen. Check out the David Lynch Foundation website. There are short videos which show the remarkable transformation that takes place in the lives of people when they learn TM. If you don't want to practice and gain the benefits, that is your right. But if you are going to comment on something, it is just better to know what you are talking about. Otherwise, you are just wasting the time and deluding the minds of people who may be looking for knowledge
Qi Huna Just in the last year, more than 500,000 at-risk children in schools have learned TM. Their lives--and the schools as well--have been completely transformed. In this new year millions of children and thousands of schools will begin this life-transforming technique. My experience with TM--and the other, very different techniques I have tried--is that the TM movement under plays the benefits. As researcher Dr. Norman Rosenthal said, 'If there was a drug that could accomplish half of what TM does, it would be the biggest seller in the market.'
I know "meditation" is key, but don't hype one certain meditation like TM for profit cause than its like being a hypocrite and making profit from GOD/UNIVERSE/DIVINITY which is NOT a good thing for your own psyche, mentality and spirit!
Qi Huna I have been around non-profit organizations much of my life.. And the TM organization is the most sincere--and effective--non-profit organization I have ever encountered. And again, I have tried other techniques of meditation so I know from direct experience that every technique is different and produces different results. Saying that all meditation is alike is like saying that all cars are alike--or all trees, or people, etc. Simply not the case. These are clear statements of fact that science has verified for the last 45 years of researching meditation techniques. They are all different. And in my experience TM is easily the most profound. And that is why it is always such a joy to talk about it! And the best feelings I have ever had is when I have had friends and family learn TM. They always say the same thing (especially those who have tried other meditation techniques): 'Wow! I wish I would have learned this in school! It would have improved every area of my life!!' I am so happy to see that TM is now being adopted by whole nations' education systems. It is world-transforming innovation. And I applaud the work that the David Lynch Foundation (beautiful short videos at their website) is doing to bring TM to those who need it most: Vets with PTSD (I am a Vet), abused women, at-risk kids in school, homeless people, etc. One technique which simply, naturally and effortlessly transforms life into a wave of happiness, health and ever-expanding joyfulness. And that, my friend, is always a joy to share with those who have ears to hear--and the clarity of vision to look at the research on different meditation techniques.
The only thing i gained from TM is watching the So called Maharishi(self appointed i note) saying we basically have to really do nothing ,now ive learned we dont have to really do anything , WE JUST ARE.Thats all we will ever be no more advanced so called techniques no more levitating con tricks no one can levitate !!
I went to a free seminar on TM, at the home of a certified instructor, because I was intrigued by the SiriusXM program that trumpets it. 1. EXPENSIVE! I've been known to spend stupid money on stupid(er) things but this tightens even my purse strings. 2. Not a religion? Then why does it have all the trappings?
Sharon Dee 1- well worth the expense....for the technique from a trained instructor and the associated life time availability of an instructor. That instructor has to pay their bills, just like us, and the TM organization has expenses in promoting the practice and maintaing an infrastructure so the technique can be conveniantly found before and after instruction. 2 - well...it is an ancient technique that can lead to higher, more integrated states of consciousness that makes available more blissful, fulfilling states of being (my experience). But, in no way did this require acceptance of this notion or any religious trappings adopted to my life style. It just innocently happened. It is taught with a traditional ceremony in gratitude to the teachers who have passed it on so we have it now. It's a reminder to keep teaching and practicing the technique as per the teachings of these teachers. I'm Jewish and still adhere to that tradition as my religion and don't find this any hindrance to my Jewish heritage....but, in fact have gained a better appreciation for Jewish principles from my experience of deeper levels of mind and consciousness through my TM practice.
Too bad the coaches want $2000 & up just to give someone a sanskrit word. If this is REALLY that powerful in our movement then it should be given for FREE. None of this "do you want your blessings to be in gross or net tithings"
KVW Reed Interesting isn't it that even though millions of people around the world have been taught this 'extraordinary life changer' of a technique they themselves remain mysteriously unable or unwilling to pass it on for free....
KVW Reed i paid 40 German Marks which was about $12 back in 1970. Today 45 years later a student in the USA pays $ 360. www.tm.org/course-fee for a lifelong flat rate service of checking of the technique, participating in talks and lectures - worldwide!
+Chanson Dada Once you realize that TM is an intution, you realize, that by definition, you can't teach it. TM teachers are called "teachers" for marketing purposes. Their role is to take the student through a carefully choreographed 4-day long process meant to help the student develop an intuition. Just because you have the intuition doesn't mean you have figured out a way of imparting that intuition to others. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the first person in history to claim to have done so, and that is only because he had the full technological resources of 20th Century gadgets to help him devise a teaching method to train *teachers* in the TM *teaching* method. Before the era of video and audio recordings, the transmission of the intuition required an enlightened person to intuitively know what to say and do to help the student "get" the intuition. Now, there are videos that the TM teacher watches that train him without the distortion that arose from not having such precise recordings available to teach the teachers and so TM teachers can literally play the part of an enlightened teacher in a carefully choreographed and rehearsed teaching-play performed over 4 consecutive days. *_In a nutshell_*: TM teachers are trained to impart an intuition over 4 days, but just because the TM meditator gets the intuition, doesn't mean they can pass it along.
Lawson English My point still stands. There are TM 'teachers' in the world apparently capable of imparting an 'intuition' (seems rather vague) and yet none of them has broken ranks or even had the intuition to go ahead with "Hey you know what, I'm not going to charge for this anymore. The human race is so clearly in need of it that I'm going to give it away freely..... and hey you know what, I feel it's so important that I'm going to train others to do the same so that way we can disseminate the information to more people more quickly." Or is the intuition to keep the money rolling in?
Chanson Dada In order for the TM organization to recognize the students of a given TM teacher as legitimate students, that teacher has to ploay by the ruloes of the TM organization If the TM teacher wants to donate their 50% fee so that the student only pays 1/2 price, they are free to do so. If the TM teacher wants to pay the entire fee and get their half back, the TM teacher is free to do so. in fa ct, there ARE teachers who give a 50% discount to people with financial problems, which means they get paid NOTHING. But still, you''ll find a way to criticize, I am sure.
i think all meditation is over rated. just pack lunch and take a nap during lunch break. i have been doing for years and i am more productive and more even tempered. i also found out that taking healthy foods like whole meal oats and bread with lean meat and veggies and fruits will make feel and perform better .
***** Acem Meditation is not free. The introductory course is free but to take more lessons it cost. us.acem.com/content/view/full/236 Didn't know if you knew that.
***** Absolutely false! As a Vet I tried many of these 'just like TM' meditations. Headaches, confusion and wasted time...TM is entirely different--and can't be learned online or in a book. It just isn't the same. I recommend doing things in a proper way. There are hundreds of scientific studies verifying the benefits of TM. And there have been many studies comparing TM to these other techniques. TM is found to be twice as effective in many of these meta-analyses..Anxiety, high blood pressure, etc.
The TM business model is broken and will continue to lose people to other styles (e.g., mindfulness, etc.) offered for free pretty much anywhere in the western world.
I would take all these graphs and studies with a pinch of salt. They are not reliable for everyone, even if for some. I did TM for over 20 years and still had high blood pressure, and did another form of meditation for 20 years after that, both of which I enjoyed, so I have nothing against it, except the huge charges and the false claims. I found it very relaxing for about 16 years, then it just stopped working for me, and most of the time I meditated 2 hours per day. It does not induce perfect health, nor does it solve all problems. It is not a universal panacea for all adverse conditions and medical problems. A good teacher does not need all this pseudo-science crap, which I find dull and boring.
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I'm a Veteran and, much like the soldier in this video, I too have been searching my place in life. For the last 4 years waking up is the hardest thing to do when every morning is like waking up everyday to 9/11. It feels like someone hit the overdrive button on the panic switch. Since I have discovered TM which was about 2 weeks ago my anxiety has become managable. I believe this is great for anything when it comes to controlling your thought process and quieting the mind.
Great to hear that Chris! I too am a Vet--TM is the best thing that ever happened to me! Keep it up, life gets better and more stress free all the time...
The David Lynch Foundation now will pay for instruction for ANY US veteran who wants to learn TM. Some TM centers are aware of this, and some are not. If your local center doesn't know about this, email Bob Roth at the David Lynch Foundation to get them speaking to each other.
Edit: I'm told that that was a temporary offer. If you are a vet with PTSD, please get in touch with your local TM center. If you are not, the DLF may still be able to help at least a bit on a case-by-case basis, funding allowing.
Christopher Russo Thank you for your service ❤ I am happy to hear this helped you 🙏
Remember that you have the right to go to any TM center in teh world for the rest of your life and get help with your TM practice. In the USA, that followup program is free-for-life.
Happy for you sir.
remember , meditation is for all religons , for all people everywhere
I am practising TM for about 41 years, and I can say I am satisfied with results in my life. For me it is practical thing, I feel more calm, with better health an more happiness. It is my experience with TM. Thanks to TM. I spent only about $300. And it was enough for basic technique. It is Croatian price.
I've been practicing TM since 1975, thanks to The Beatles, Merv Griffin and of course Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
It has saved my life. Stress, blood pressure, past trauma, etc have all been eased.
I wish everybody knew about and practiced TM.
TM is simple, natural, and effortless which I like best.
Lankesh SarkerGanguly and free, no money needed
This is the best explanation of T.M. i have ever heard. Im sure this will help many people. Stress kills. This simple technique saves and restores lives.
Simply the method to reduce stress and bring about the blossoming of our full potential which lies within us hidden to become a true human!
I learned... online
Been practicing TM since 1973. It’s life changing.
PllZ how to do this ??
I started in 1976. I had a very successful career after that. It’s had to single out what would have happened had I not done TM, but I am sure it relaxed me. Also made it easy to sleep. If I have problems sleeping I just start meditating and what ever is bothering me will go away and I will fall asleep.
@@ppumpkin3282 I learn tm from org but I didn't understand right processrer of tm pllzz tell me we just repeat a mantra in mind or think about that ??
I have been meditating for 41 years. Knowledge only comes with study, but T.M. sets us up to assimilate what we study and see more broadly the connections between what we learn and what we already know. T.M. expands the awareness of the entire mind. We literally see, witness and absorb more from our senses. Colors are brighter, patterns are sharper. It's like getting a hi definition TV upgrade. T.M. occasionally has a down-side that is not politically correct to discuss. One, in my educated opinion, must take a break from T.M. after a year or so. It is very powerful and can create depression and anxiety conditions by entering the Absolute too often. Each individual can evolve only as much as his or her mind will allow. If we push the mind/soul too hard with too much T.M. it can create neurosis, depression and anxiety conditions. However it does not mean T.M. becomes useless. Nothing could be further from the truth. Taking a break from T.M. meditation by moving from twice a day to once every other day is what I have done over the years when challenged by this fact. This demonstrates how powerful T.M. is. Yes there is such thing as too much of a good thing. This includes, in my opinion T.M. but not until one reaches the full benefit saturation of T.M. which may or may not be reached by all people who practice it. After about ten years of regular daily T.M. I came to realize that I needed this "break" from meditation. And it worked remarkably well. I continue to meditate regularly to this day. My body tells me when I've reached the saturation point at which time I switch to Mindfulness meditation (the Zinn method). And continue to practice T.M. as my body/mind/soul requires. T.M. is an overall godsend to any individual under any circumstances. It has literally saved my life on three occasions.
The most dramatic example was when I planned to be arrested at a political protest and was put in jail for a few hours. I had never been in jail before but was prepared for this event. I recall that being the highest stress I had ever felt in my life. Once processed and placed in a room to wait I began the T.M. technique 100% of the fear and stress melted away and I was in an incredibly safe place. I remained in meditation until I was released an hour later. Charges were dropped and I went about my day as if nothing had happened. I even went to the gym later that day and watched a movie with a friend that night. T.M. gives us control when we need it. It gives us perspective, awareness and depth but it does not magically educate us. We still need to study throughout our lives, we still need to compete and grow and do all the things the culture demands. Nothing changes except how well we handle ourselves and we get the deep rest we require. It's a fantastic gift for children. It gives them an insanely powerful tool to use when ever they are scared or without the council they may require. It is comforting and allows a person time to reflect on daily matters. Even a six year old needs this. Conversely older people derive great benefit from T.M. I'm taking an 80 year old friend to the T.M. center this week. She is thrilled and looking forward to the release of decades of stress neurosis and poor perspective. What a gift T.M. is. I recommend it as a Christmas or Holiday present.
I learned T.M. at age 17. I really needed it at age 12. My first meditation was as though the weight of the world came off my shoulders and my senior year of High School was amazing. I graduated happy healthy and ready for college.
I was supposed to go to MIU at their new campus in Fairfield the first year they were open but my Christian grandparents objected so I did not get to go to MIU. It was a personal tragedy but I'll leave you with saying that simply knowing T.M. and practicing faithfully for most my life has been one of if not the greatest gift I have ever received. Over time it improves the quality of life by giving us the rest we need and an essential connection with the Absolute (God?) where by we begin to express characteristics of love that might have never had the opportunity to be expressed without this essential life-tool. What they are speaking of here is all true and more. T.M. goes deeply into us and becomes a fountain of energy clear thought and heightened awareness. It is not a magic bullet but it gives anyone smart enough to practice it a fighting chance for a happy life.
Gee golly good
Zimmermania T.M. is supposed to decrease anxiety and depression....what do you mean??
TM is a beautiful method for turning within and finding the peace already residing within.
I am starting my class in two days. I will be paying for the course. I'm happy to do so. Why negative comments about whether someone should pay or not? There are so many wasteful expenses in the world...this is not one of those!! I'll be back in a week or so after beginning my practice.
We all have our priorities, and you have the highest priority.
@Kerry Fenton had did the class go? And are you still doing TM? There's a reddit discussion group, by the way: www.reddit.com/r/transcendental
Yes, you must write an update.
Trancendental Meditation works wonderfully. Everyone must try.
Doing TM for 42 years, and loving it.
Can you please, explain the technique?
42 years and your watching a video on what tm is., sounds legit
I've been doing TM for over fifty years. Yes, it is calming and relaxing and can help get you through a stressful day. Does it do all the things noted in the video? No, it cannot. What TM does is exercise the mind through daily repetition and help develop the ability to focus on one thought, word, or movement of breath. The mind normally jumps from one thing to another instead of staying focused. How many times have you started for your kitchen to do something and by the time you got there you wonder what the original reason was? Most people have experienced this or something similar. It's because your mind jumped to some other subject and it took off in that direction. TM helps correct that bad habit. Stress is caused by the mind jumping back and forth from issue to issue and never resolving much of anything. TM teaches you to focus on one thing, one thought and finish that before you start another. It really is that simple and doesn't require a four day course. I can explain TM to someone in four minutes and answer any questions they have in ten more minutes. From that point on it's simply practice and more practise focusing the mind on a mantra, your breathing, or if you want your navel. It really makes no difference what the object of your focus is.
Please, help me understand this technique.
Please help us understand!
This person is not describing the correct practice of TM.
If you’re “focusing on the mantra,” similar to how other meditation techniques focus on breathing or an object, then you’re not doing TM properly and you won’t get the touted results. No wonder you believe “it’ll help you get through your day, but nothing more”! You’re not really doing TM! The mantra is NOT “an object of focus,” like your breath or your navel. You say you’ve been doing TM for over 50 years, but if that’s true then it’s been over 50 years of incorrect technique. If you paid for TM then go find a certified teacher, because you’re entitled to lifetime help and you clearly need it, to correct your practice.
"Be still and know that I am God." That's my Mantra!
Good practice! I do it. But for those not having enough $ for the initiation, just access "Mahamritunjaya Mantra - Sacred Sounds Choir". Listen to it for 5-10 min per day for at least two weeks and tap into the Transcendental Absolute - the nondual Self, or "Sat-Chit-Ananda. The benefits mentioned in this interview are fine, but only one side of the coin. The traditional purpose/goal of TM in the Shankaraya Tradition is Transcendence leading to Enlightenment.
The very exciting interview and corosponding explanations of TM effects
MY FRIEND WAS ABLE TO GIVE UP HER DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY MEDS, EVEN HER AMBIEN EVENTUALLY,,,JUST BY MEDITATING IN THE AM AND PM.....I SAY WOWWWWWWW....
It really depends on what is the cause of the problems. If it is purely stress-related, that wouldn't be too surprising. However, if there is a medical component, your friend should be aware that the psychological relief from reduction in stress isn't a substitute for medical treatment and she should consult the doctor who prescribed the meds before she quits any prescription med.
A famous example: Michael J. Fox apparently got literally immediate (but temporary) relief from his Parkinsons Disease symptoms during his very first TM session, but he is still slowly dying from the disease. If he stopped seeing a doctor just because he felt better for a minute or two during TM practice-or even for a few minutes after-that would be a very seriously bad thing.
That's great, hypnotized Scientologists claim the same 'results'.
@@Rainez667 We are not hynotized. And probably scientologists get some results from their practice. Who knows?
Me too, losing depression and anxiety
One of the best videos I've ever seen on TM thanks!
Thank you Josh!
Dennis a very big congratulation to you for such a fantastic introduction to TM both you and Kristi were just great and Tina adorable for asking the right questions and adding her valuable comments.
Viewing this presentation brought back fond memories of visiting your center last year with my sister. I am now back in Fortaleza, Brazil and I am having some really good success as a TM teacher.
It is a pity that this presentation was not available in Portuguese. All best regards and good luck to you both.
Memory loss improvement. I find that to be true with no need :). Randomly I get this most vivid flashbacks that almost feel like a dream. Also I have been remembering dreams I have had at early child hood (27 now) lately while awake. In the past (and present) I have found my self remembering old dreams while dreaming and actually deciding to revisit that particular dream as if I could just go there :) but now I am gettimg those moments while I am awake... its beautiful. Makes me feel things inside my spirit that I only felt in those dreams. Leaving me with more knowledge experience and questions. Today I am learning the connection between both relms because the dreams and memories have been coinciding with events in day especially when I feel most confident that im on the right path for me. All is one .
Hi Etaund. I too have been remembering old dreams often since practicing this meditation. Sometimes I'll remember 3 or four strung together and it always makes me smile. I find it amazing that I'm starting to spontaneously recall these dreams from years and years ago, and even be able to reflect on them and their content. I'm with you, they leave me with more knowledge about myself and push me to ask interesting questions of myself. It seems like a real testament to the ability of this meditation to improve mental functioning.
Teach the practice for free to the masses. Oops! No profit in that
Funny the way they don't mention the "levitation" too
The David Lynch Foundation teaches TM for free to all US \veterans and police and firemen and EMTs (all "first responders"). All TM centers are obligated to help everyone who ever learned TM through official channels for free, no matter what they paid to learn.
And the TM organization is negotiating with national governments to have school teachers and the like trained as TM teachers sot hat all public school students can learn TM for free.
And they can still got o any TM center in the world and get help with their meditation practice for the rest of their lives... for free.
markewhite1
big lie
Kevkar1 do you work for free ?
People don't value something that's free.
A recurring theme here is "I could learn all that stuff without paying . . . . from the internet . . etc" As a long time TM meditator, my considered opinion is that is perhaps possible, but very unlikely. TM is easy, even effortless but also very subtle and delicate. (definitely not a focus thing, if you try to "focus" in TM, nothing happens!)
I believe it takes personal coaching by a TM teacher to have much of a chance to achieve these subtle mental states.
I compare it to the likelihood of becoming a superb golfer, just by getting clubs & a ball, but never a lesson or even ever seeing anyone swing a club correctly.
It changed my life, far and away the best $ I ever spent. There is financial help for those who truly can't afford the full cost. I'm a cheap guy (Scottish) but this is one of those cases where your quality of life is more important than pinching pennies!
Yes. Learning it form the internet is impossible. Each instruction is suited to the individual and must be given by a teacher certified by Maharishi.
Amazing gave me clarity!!
It is so great to see that TM is expanding into schools all over the world. And when they study the benefits they find that the school is completely transformed! This is what we need in education! Evidence-based results! TM works to change the functioning of the brain and the research is becoming so remarkably clear--that only the dullest mind could deny the benefits.
The David Lynch Foundation is working with many countries--more than 30--to introduce TM in schools and health care ministries.
*****
Freedom from sickness, ability to sleep, and giving up cigarettes and drugs are real things--I recommend TM to all who want to enjoy the best that life has to offer.
***** any kind of "washing" is a great thing, otherwise you will stink and you're going to become lonely.
psychological hygiene is as important as physiological hygiene. Transcendence creates freedom from any kind of manipulations
***** TM isn't brain washing. I've been doing it for 40 years...have been a succesful businessman; raised a family and enjoy good and getting better mental and psychological health. Read the research...use your mind and stop exercising your preconceived notions, Sure...there are weak personalities that gravitate towards lots of "self help" modalities...and these people may adopt specific jargon and behaior in an unnatural, uninnocent way....but this phenomenon, in no way represents what TM does for and to the vast majority of people who adopt it as a regular practice.
The studies in schools aren't proof enough. The samples are small and the conclusions were biased. Also, who has donated the money for such studies are TM followers, so there's a conflict of interest. And there's much more going on...
I see lots of comments about people having practiced TM for 40 or 45 years, giving them lots of calmness and energy which is great. But none of them actually mentions higher states of consciousness in daily life, or awakening say like Eckart Tolle for example.
Seeing reality for what it actually is, becoming fully present!
This leads me believe that this form of Meditation which differs from all other forms of meditation is as Osho has previous said, just a deep state of rest and nothing more.
@R D Indeed, TM is a deep state of rest and nothing more. Actually , it is open-ended rest. The deepest state is called "samadhi" and even that is not the end-point as samadhi can mature as well.
However, long-term outcome isn't about what happens during TM, but what happens outside of TM: resting outside of TM starts to approach the depth found during samadhi (which is trend deeper over time as well, though very very slowly).
Because our sense-of-self is due to the mind-wandering activity of the main resting network of the brain, the default mode network (DMN), deeper/lower-noise/more efficient mind-wandering rest is appreciated as a lower-noise sense-of-self.
Eventually a quiet, pure, simple *I am* starts to appear and become *permanent*: present at all times, in all circumstances, whether one is awake, dreaming or in deepest sleep.
When the deep rest found during samadhi becomes such a permanent trait outside of meditation that *I am* is a 24/hour a day reality, this is called *atman* - True Self (*Self* for short).
The appreciation of *atman* is the beginning of enlightenment in the advaita vedanta tradition that TM comes from.
Awesome video on TM. At present I attend the daily Global TM sessions which are marvelous in the sense that the world TM is meditating and transcending on a collective basis. As a longtime practitioner of Tai Chi & Qigong I find that after a TM session I feel very motivated to start the Qigong sessions where you can savor the blissful “present moment” or the NOW as mentioned by Ekart Tolle. Every TM practitioner will eventually reach his /her ultimate higher consciousness or bliss. Cheers. 😄🙏🙏
I've been practicing TM for 47 years. It saved my life. I would not be alive anymore without TM.
Save your life? Where you in a coma? Were you suicidal?
I had hard depressions. I would have commited suicide sooner or later. @@vickd3702
Dear Tina, all the best from Croatia!!!
Cheers!
very informative, thanks!
Thank you Ms.Marx
Meditation is free! you don't have to spend all that money.. just sit quietly and let the mind rest while focusing on your breath :) Being charged huge amounts of money for this is criminal..
There are also detailed studies that compare TM to other techniques of meditation. A Stanford meta-analysis found the TM technique to be twice as effective as other techniques in reducing anxiety--this is just one of many such studies comparing TM to other techniques. There are entirely different EEG patterns during the practice of TM.
Saying that all meditation techniques are alike--or that everyone meditates is completely out of touch with reality. As a Vet whose life was transformed when I learned the practice of TM (I had tried many other techniques that were not beneficial at all!), I can say that TM is the single most amazingly effective technology I have ever seen. Check out the David Lynch Foundation website. There are short videos which show the remarkable transformation that takes place in the lives of people when they learn TM.
Thanks for that. Actually I am fully open to what you're saying if it indeed makes meditating more effective. I looked into TM a while ago and it was very expensive here in Nz! I'll look into it again and see what I come with. Thanks for your views :)
Chris Nichols
Hi Chris, I was in NZ last year (the most beautiful country I have ever visited in my life!), and happened to meet some of the TM teachers. They were very impressive. But in reality, it doesn't actually matter if one is impressed with their TM teacher or not. The technique is taught in a very precise and detailed manner. And that is why it is taught only in the specific five day course, by trained TM teachers. When you learn it, you will understand why it must be taught this way, and can't be learned from a book or DVD.
And what great good fortune for you to live in that amazing place! May your life grow and prosper in every way!
Happy30Too Thanks for the kind words. And yes, fortunately I do realise how lucky I am to live here! I think I'll seriously look into the TM as even the attempts I've been making to meditate so far have already changed my outlook on life for the better. Peace to you my friend.
*****
Less stress and less anger are valuable.
Just a few famous people who have learned/ practice TM:
All of the Beatles, Mike Love, Howard Stern, Russell Brand, Russell Simmons, David Lynch, Jerry Seinfield, Ellen Degeneres, Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Aniston,Clint Eastwood, Jim Carrey, Deepak Chopra,Mia Farrow, Jane Fonda, Heather Graham, Merv Griffin, George Hamilton, Goldie Hawn, Jim Henson, Hugh Jackman, Mick Jaggar,George Lucas, Mary Tyler Moore, Katy Perry, Tom Petty, Burt Reynolds, Priscilla Presley, Sting, Liv Tyler, Dr oz, Donovan...
***** That may be mostly true, with the exception of the David Lynch Foundation that has been able to have TM taught to many schools around the country.
A lot of people chose to donate anonymously as well, so it's really not fair to assume that they don't. I've spoken with many teachers, not just TM teachers who have something valuable to share that when they give it away and the person who gets it has nothing personally invested in it, then they don't appreciate it as there is an unbalanced/one-sided energy transfer.
It's like when a parent gives their kid a brand new fancy car for their kid's birthday and not knowing the true worth of what it took to obtain the car, the teen doesn't appreciate it and often you hear they end up wrecking it or worse.
***** That's such a wronged headed approach to life.
***** So you're saying that plumbers shouldn't charge people for emergency plumbing work? Or dentists shouldn't charge money. Or doctors shouldn't charge money. Or psychiatrists shouldn't charge? The list goes on and on.
+kristen5747 These days, TM costs $960 for adults, $480 for college students and $360 for high school students. Homeless vets with PTSD and veterans of the Iran/Afghanistan wars learn TM for free, at atleast some TM centers.
And there is work going on to get government employees trained as TM teachers so that they can teach TM for free as part of their regular government work.
Several presidents and prime ministers of major countries have learnerd TM over the past few decades, so this is going easier than you might expect:
Narendra Modi, current Prime Minister of India.
Shinzō Abe, current Prime Minister of Japan.
Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan.
Joaquim Chissano, former President of Mozambique.
Juan Manuel Santos, current President of Colombia.
Dilma Rouseff, current President of Brazil.
And who gives a shit about all these people with huge incomes and even bigger ego? What about Granny Smith down the road in that cheap housing? All this celebrity adulation is sickening to me. No other meditation group I am aware if does this, and I have been meditating most of my 76 years. I find it despicable and repulsive. I care about ordinary people. I have never charged for meditation instruction. I find it obscene.
many international celebrities becoming followers of maharishi on transcendental meditation for bliss
@coojsta69
I'm in total agreement, there's no need to pay!
It's touted as not being based on a "belief," or "philosophy," but I went through the training decades ago and enjoyed it.
*However,* my initiation involved my teacher chanting some stuff at a picture of a character he called Guru Dev?
I didn't find this offensive, as I'm very open minded about religion, but, if this is still going on, then why aren't they up front about it?
Also, the "special mantra," is age specific, when I looked them up on the net, I found I was given one that was specific to my age when I was in my 20s.
So, again, why not be honest about that?
I've recently returned to meditation and am in no doubt about its usefulness.
However, I'm not using my original mantra.
The Benson institute assert that *any* word repeated in the same way will produce the same result.
And Herbert Benson's book on the subject, "The Relaxation Response," costs a few quid/dollars.
So, my advice would be to read that and off you go.
The T.M. people are after your money, at the end of the day.
Also, let's not even get into the whole Yogic "Flying," nonsense! :O)
+Wild Heart This TM given out special mantras is just ridicules :D
I don't think mantras works that well if they are given to you, mantras works best with meditation if you try different ones out and cling to the one/ones that you feel works.. Some meditation methods consists of many different mantras all defined by what's coming to your mind in the current moment, other mantras are simple repeated words and there is even meditation methods that has mantras consisting of meaningless sounds.
+orion9k
Quite ;O)
I'm following the guidelines as laid out in Herbert Benson's book and that puts me in the same sort of state as did T.M.
I am a bit confused sometimes as to whether I should be exhaling through my mouth though.
It seems to be recommended according to some advice.
Wild Heart If you read what the American Heart Association says about research on Benson's Relaxation Response vs TM, they say that the Relaxation Response, even after 45 years of research out of Harvard, doesn't have the evidence to allow them to recommend it for the treatment of hypertension, while TM does.
That sounds like a significant difference, to me.
As well, Herbert Benson puts the RR squarely into the "focused attention" category of meditation practices, while TM is a "mind-wandering" technique that is neither like focused attention NOR is it like mindfulness.
FInally, if you read the latest papers about mindfulness and concentration, they talk about wakefulness and how such practices really are NOT about relaxation but about training attention.
TM is merely a relaxation practice. The TM course helps the student come to an intuition about setting up a situation so that the mind can wander in a way that maximizes rest. It's not about training attention, but about enhancement of natural mind-wandering sot hat it becomes most restful.
THAT is the most important difference: TM is about mind-wandering while virtually all other practices are about attention training.
+Lawson English
Hi. That's interesting, as The Benson people claim the same effects, which are documented in both of his books and also in videos on UA-cam etc.
I'm no medical expert, but given that their research into their methods is conducted at Harvard, I would've thought that they have some credentials for making these claims?
I've personally tried TM *and* Benson's "Relaxation Response," and quite honestly can't see a huge amount of difference in the effect/results myself.
I've also tried Russell Simmons' recommendations which seem remarkably similar to those of TM and again, the same "results."
+Wild Heart You went to your local TM center and learned TM from a trained TM teacher and went back every week for the first month and every month for the first year for free checking as has been the recommendation for years and years, and you don't see any difference?
Narendra Modi, current Prime Minister of India learned TM.
Shinzō Abe, current Prime Minister of Japan learned TM.
Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan, learned TM.
Joaquim Chissano, former President of Mozambique, learned TM.
Juan Manuel Santos, current President of Colombia, learned TM.
Dilma Rouseff, current President of Brazil, learned TM.
What did these folks see in it that you didn't?
I can only suggest that you go back and get checked again, and explain to your TM teacher that you just don't see any difference between TM and Benson's Relaxation Response and see if they can clear up the misunderstanding.
nice...44 years!!
you can use any mantra you want, for example the mantra so ham. just make sure nobody knows the mantra. Repeat the mantra in silence. Here you are, your free explanation on tm.
Sorry, that isn't TM. For the real benefits learn the technique properly--makes a huge difference.
How is TM different from other forms of meditation? Is the Meditative State guaranteed if we pay the instructor's charge? I'm not against paying.
It differs from other forms of meditation insofar as it is very easy - no concentration. Concentration is one of the few mistakes that you can make with TM. And it works. Anybody can do it. And it is the meditation most examined by scientists. Even non-meditating scientists found out that it works, even if they were very sceptical before. And you don't have to change much about our life. If you smoke, you will stop smoking in time, without any effort. I tried to stop smoking many times. 3 1/2 years after starting TM I just stopped smoking without any difficulties. TM is completely effortless. You just have to do it regularly, like brushing your teeth.
I forgot one thing: A meditative state is not guaranteed. But what is guaranteed is that you start to "unstress", i.e. to throw out inner tensions and strains. The result of that will be a meditative state. It may come and go and finally stay. But nobody knows when that will be. It depends on the quantity and the kind of stresses that a person has.
@@klaus-peterkubiak7795 , thank you!
have just one question - why i can't lern TM by Skype for example?
You probably could. The old Monk experimented with all sorts of ways of teaching TM over the years, but decided that in-person instruction was the most effective and so that is how it is taught by the organization that he set up.
People don't do as well via televised lectures compared to face-to-face interaction. That's why Skype-based interaction is not the primary way of dealing with doctors or lawyers or anyone else.
And its easier to send a TM teacher to a refugee camp in Uganda than to set up a Skype connection, for example, and most places are far easier to get to than a refugee camp in Uganda.
Doesn't make money that wT
Every TM beginner without exception is given a mantra or word to be
repeated mentally every time he or she sits down to meditate. The mantra
is given in the course of the initiation ceremony. The aspiring
meditator is told that this is her or his own personal mantra and that
it must on no account be revealed to anyone else - otherwise it will
lose its power.
The sense of specialness in which the giving of the TM
mantra is shrouded might seem to suggest to the individual meditator
that he or she alone has been given that mantra and that the TM
organization must have dispensed many thousands, even millions of
different mantras to corresponding numbers of meditators. The reality,
as told by instructors who have defected from the movement over the
years, is rather different. A variety of sources suggest that only
sixteen different mantras are given to new meditators. Moreover, the
mantra one gets is determined solely by one's age at the time of
initiation. The complete list seems to be as follows : message me
Mantras are like vehicles, you need to learn properly how to use them. That's what the instructors are for, they are highly trained how to guide the student how to use it properly. When dealing with the delicate functioning of the mind, it's way better to not fool around.
The mantras are never to be spoken aloud nor written down. THey are kept in memory only. Telling people to "keep a secret" is the easiest way to get that point across to 10-year-olds and TM is meant to be taught to 10-year-olds as well as adults.
It turns out that when you learn nonsense words from a written list, they are stored in visual memory in the brain. This is likely different than where a nonsense word--which you never say out loud or write down, OR EVEN DELIBERATELY THINK AT ALL outside of meditation practice--is stored.
Given that TM is a specific mental practice, it isn't outrageous to claim that following specific instructions associated with that practice are important even if you don't know why they are important.
Hi Lawson, I like the answers you give here. You should also look into answering questions on Quora.com. I've been doing that for some time and it seems to help people a lot. Far less bonkers people than found in UA-cam, Quora is for more serious thinking people, and the questions/answers are curated to keep things civil. Bring your knowledge there, too!
Hey Steve, thanks for the kind words. I'm co-moderator for www.reddit.com/r/transcendental. Feel free to join in the discussion there.
When they talk about consciousness and the full potential and the source of thought it sounds like you need electron microscopes and multi-million dollar equipment, etc and that was a big stumbling block for me for years. I have been doing TM about 40 years and it happens to be the simplest thing of sitting down closing the eyes and doing nothing. Then you'll begin to notice that you seem to be 'existence'. That's it, and there is power in that.
Exactly. Its so awesome how u step imto tm at the right time in ur life. I for one have been doimg this for years without even knowing of tm lol. To me it feels like accepting the reality that all is one is the main key to experience the fact in it self
Could you give me a quick rundown of how I can use it? I'm a broke student. Would be highly appreciated.
John Ny I meditated while being a student and this is how I used it. I normally did not study and had poor grades . If I didn't get it in class I didn't get it. After beginning to meditate I was able to literally sit down and read every sentence and every paragraph and every chapter of Dr. Grob's 2 1/2 inch thick giant textbook Basic Electricity and Electronics. I made straight A s in the course and I understood the material. That was 39 years ago. i.e., your student years can actually be productive and serve you all your life. That's 1 way to use it.
***** I'm literally broke.
1rocknroy Thanks for the lengthy response. What kind of meditation did you use? And how often?
Thank you for sharing :)
There are many "tools" to fix your psychological and physiological ailments and anxieties. But there's also the eternity dimension in our existence. I became a born-again Christian almost six years ago. This means that I received in faith Jesus, the Son of God, who atoned for our sins on the cross of Golgatha and rose from the dead, as my Savior and Lord. Being a Christian and following Jesus in faith has been kind of "a total solution" to my problems. I didn't receive Jesus as "a tool" to fix my earthly ailments, but my faith in Him has helped my in those, too.
Born-again assholes - ugh! :smmfh:
My apologies. My TM receptor has been broken lately, hence my presence. I would explain my reasons, but many people would still disagree and continue to shove their "beliefs as fact" down other people's throats, and we certainly cannot have that negativity. And here come the comments to support my point... :D Oh, and I'm a bit angry at the response to the Orlando shooting!
Born again=self deception
yea yea yea, blah,blah blah. Heard it all before. Go play your harp.
You do NOT need to pay for anything, just sit straight up, choose a single word to focus on, try to stabilize your breathing, and listen to peaceful music/sounds (optional), enjoy.
Austin Nance stabilise breathing? That's control, not natural, tm does not control anything.
To Yudi Prabudi who is in doubt of the 35 dollar price. Yes... Back in 1973 I got it for 35 bucks! Jai Guru Dev
I got it for free 18 years from TM Teacher in Sydney, & was horrified to hear of the price people will pay in the US, for a free gift from India to humanity. Can you imagine the people of India paying for this? Western culture commodifies EVERYTHING!..... Btw Air & water are also a gift! Tell that to Nestle!
A mantra is like training wheels for the mind, eventually you want to get rid of the mind and even what you think you are....Ramana Maharshi used to say don’t meditate just have a quite mind...it’s like “meditating” 100% of the time...he was the saint’s saint of the 20th Century...listen to Candice O’Denver, do short moments until it becomes natural...you do it all the time!
To say "don't meditate just have a quite mind" is not very helpful. And it's certainly not like meditating all the time. It is just moodmaking. Ramana Maharshi is one of those gurus that may be enlightened but have no method or technique to help other people to reach this state of mind. Osho (Bhagwan) once said that if you tell a person just to be himself, he will remain his neurotic and narrow-minded self for the rest of his life.He is like a doctor that tells his patient: Just go home, basically you are healthy.
Program was informative an a good overview. For some reason the camera bounced between the two speakers and was somewhat annoying and distractive.
what about the effects of the brain being inundated and poisoned by radio frequency radiation from microwave emitting cell towers, cell phones, base stations, etc? clearly this is a problem that needs to be addressed ASAP! Have there been studies on this yet??
Is there an initiation in the beginning where you bow down to a yogi and are given a secret hindu deities name to use in mantra?
Lt H Thank you. Sounds like a religion to me. No thanks I'll stay with Jesus :-). God bless you Lt H.
Ok Thank you! I will check into it. Do you practice?
Estherfaith Yes. 20 mins morn and evening. It is really helpful. All the religious stuff associated to it is optional. I just do the meditation. I did the course but it is not required at all. Google is you're friend. Good luck
Lt H Thank you!!
India is source of all these good things for mankind...
...I understand that TM is a very powerful form of meditation but why is it so expensive? Wouldn't more people benefit from it if it was made available to the everyday man in the street? It should be taught in schools to help children at such a young age, to assist with the pressures of everyday life growing up! Or base it on a donation premise of whatever the person can afford!
Richard Reid TM teachers need to live. They have to eat, pay rent, taxes, insurance - just like you. Also, TM is a lifetime program. You can go in to you local TM center or any other one for a free checking or an advanced lecture next week, next year or ten years from now. You just pay once, but you enjoy it for the rest of your life.
...I haven't done any real research yet but thanks for the info! I will take look!
Richard Reid don t spend any money on it, you have got almost all you need on the web.
Xav ...thanks for the advice! I will definitely do my research before making any decisions!
Don't pay anyone else for information on meditation when you have the internet & can learn it for free.
Great video , cant beleive only 995 subs ??
Wh en she said it's like adding oil to the machine to reduce friction! Reminds me of my younger days when me and my wife had baby oil bashes in bed. Those were good times! Luv doing TM.
Disconcerting to see DR. Oz in this video lol The Maharishi said that anyone could benefit no matter your beliefs or moral ideas but one would hope that the practice would weigh in on ones honesty and diminish vanity.
For all religions!...Even the “Trumpsters that live in the dumpsters.”
Bless their lil transcending hearts and minds. ❤️
I understand that TM is efficient and powerful tool. But I cannot understand why they say that TM is the best than other kinds of meditations, such as Chan (Zen or Dyan) meditation or Kriya in yoga..
+John Ulzii There are many kinds of meditation, and research has been conducted on dozens of them. Maybe for some people, other types of meditation work fine, and they are happy with them. My personal experience, after trying other types of meditation and then learning TM, was that it is entirely different--although being simple to do and natural. The mind transcends effortlessly with TM, and I found that happened only with TM. I love it and it has changed every aspect of my life in the most wonderful way...
+John Ulzii Quite a few Buddhist monks have started TM of late.
+John Ulzii All TM teachers train the same way and teach teh same way (including memorized hand-gestures, body-language, tone-of-voice, and exact words) and so Maharishi claimed that all TM teachers would be equally effective at teaching TM.
If you want to say that some specific Zen or Dyan or Ch'an or whatever teacher is better than a TM teacher, great. You might be right. But there are thousands of active TM teachers in the world, and negotiations to train 100,000 or so employees of national governments, disaster relief workers of the United Nations, etc, are going on as we speak.
I'll see your one or two gifted individual meditation teachers, and raise you 100,000 consistently trained government employees.
I agree, many meditation traditions will lead to the same goal, eventually. But TM has been shown to be more effective, easier, and quicker to show objective results. TM's stated goal is to make life in the WORLD more peaceful, effective and joyful.
I can tell you from experience that Kriya is religious nonsense and moralistic claptrap that does not work. At least not for me. Apart from the advanced light and sound meditation. As to your question, my dad is better than your dad, my jesus is better than your buddha; and because Maharishi said so!
If it is Transcendental maybe someday it will be taught for free
More people learn TM for free through the David Lynch Foundation than learn through the TM centers, but the TM centers need to keep their doors open to provide the free lifetime followup program that all TMers receive and that costs money.
Dear Georg Vogt,
this is most stupid nonsense. First of all, this knowledge does not come from Hinduism but from the VEDA which is older, than Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism all together. This is, what some fanatic christian priests obviousliy do not comprehend. they do not even comprehend their own scriptures.
Matthew 11, 7-15 says very clear, that not Jesus is "the one to come" but it would be a reincarnation of John the Baptist, who also is a reincarnation of Elijah. (Yogananda says in his biography that Jesus was the disciple of Elijah one incarnation before). This makes very clear that whole Cristianity is baseless. Jesus was a great saint, but it is wrong to call him the only one "son of God" an he is not a part of the divine Trinity. This is a chritian invention and it comes from a time when every local prince or king called himself "son of Jupiter" or "son of Zeus" etc.
Look to the stars. Some of them are bigger than our milky way, which consists of over 100 TRILLION Stars. All this was created by god. And some christian priests want to reduce the size of god to the size of their own tiny brain or a little book called bible. Amaizingly these people always claim to exactly know the will of god. But what they know is not even a drop of the ocean. Nevertheless they claim to know everything better than those, who jump into the ocean of transcendence every day. I think, you should better reflect on who you are before you tell others how to live.
But back to the point: TM is not from Hinduism. It is just the other way round, and that is a big difference. Hinduism ist from Veda, as well as all other (nowdays degenerated) religions. VEDA is not a religion. It is a root knowledge. And the proof for this is that in all cultures all over the world the days of the week are called after the planets sun-day, Moon-day, Mar(s)di, Merc(u)redi, Jeudi (Jupiter), Venerdi(Venus-day 0 Frey(a-)tag), Satur(n)daqy etc. You will find this in all cultures since time immemorial, because this vedic knowledge was spread all over the world in times before our known history. All great saints draw their knowledge from this source, even if they don´t know. I.e.the Yoga knowlegde is much older than Jesus and even there you find everythig that Jesus told. That maked it most probable, that Jesus learned from the indian yogis. You may not like this, but you will have to geit used to this idea, because the original bible has been hidden in the Vatican all the time and it includes all the texts about karma, reincarnation and the instructive years of Jesus which were taken away from the bible in 553 in Konstantinopel. And when these texts will be republished (and this could be very soon) you better take your heart drops before you read.
Best regards anyway
D.
between the people who pay the fee and those who receive scholarships people who wish to meditate will be able to meditate. cost isn't the worse thing in the world. the money isn't being put to nefarious purposes.
@@LawsonEnglish In November 2000, the GCWP made a proposal to the President of Suriname, offering $1.3 billion over three years for a 200-year lease of 3,500 acres...
The Global Country of World Peace is a branch of TM.
In 2005, the Global Country bought an 800-plus acres farm in Goshen, New York, USA for $4 million in cash...
The TM/ Maharishi Foundation has enough money!
@@paulamari1872 And?
Unfortunately, Transcendental Meditation didn't work for the guy who introduced it to the West, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who preached sexual abstinence to his followers but couldn't stop himself from being lead by the nose by his lust, having sexual affairs with several female students (some were married). And it doesn't seem to have worked for it's primary media spokesman, David Lynch, who became a wrathful, foaming-at-the-mouth idiot when documentary filmmaker David Sieveking (himself a TM practitioner at the time) asked him sincere but probing questions about disturbing things he observed while doing his documentary on the TM organization. Lynch threatened to sue Sieveking if the young filmmaker didn't allow Lynch to sanitize the documentary. How enlightened!
Oh, those "hundreds" of scientific "studies" that TM advocates like to claim in favor of TM: bogus. Dr. Dennis Roark, former Maharishi International University (now Maharishi University of Management) Dean of Faculty:
“During my time at MIU, I had occasion to examine the scientific claims of the movement, to interact with those who had reportedly performed the research, to study the metaphysics, philosophy and religion associated with the TM technique, and to work with the founder of the movement and the college. It is my certain belief that the many scientific claims both to factual evidences of unique, beneficial effects of TM and to theoretical relationships between the experience of TM and physics are not only without any reasonable basis, but are in fact in many ways fraudulent.
“Confirmed to me by investigators at MIU was the suppression of negative evidence that these investigators had collected. Strong bias was present in selecting only data favourable to a conclusion that was made prior to the data collection. Because of the strong authoritarian (essentially cultic) aspects of the movement, only results supporting ideas generated by the movement leadership could receive any hearing. The ‘scientific research’ is without objectivity and is at times simply untrue.”
Ironically, Roark was involved with TM years before the school he was working at published its first study on meditation, so all his claims are about marketing pamphlets, not published research.
Untrue. "Researchers" at MIU (Orme-Johnson, Dillbeck, Nidich, Wallace, and many more) had authored numerous papers starting in 1973, and throughout Roark's tenure as Dean of Faculty and Chairman of the Physics Department at MIU (now MUM), which was 1975-80. Orme-Johnson's list, "Summary of Scientific Research on Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program" lists somewhere around 40 papers published at MIU between 1973 and 1982, and said papers constitute about one-sixth of his list. Arguably this nine year period was the "golden age" of TM research, and Roark was the boss for over half this time.
The two women talking about blood pressure are raising my blood pressure. TM is a form of mental masturbation but it does work. It is extremely pleasant to do.
I got my mantra back in 1973 for 35 bucks. Like how they market this stuff now! Two hotties talking about and damn at age 59 I still have a great sex drive!
Very informative thank you but why are used fake plants behind you just saying
All meditative practices lead to the same state. After you learn how to trigger the meditative state, a mantra or any specific method is not needed. Meditation can be learned on your own. Other methods are not inferior to TM.
TM however, offers a guided method that greatly personalizes and expedites the learning process. The fee is for coaching, not for the benefit of gaining access to a superior method. I've been meditating for about 17 years. In retrospect, I would have started with TM in a heartbeat.
+Christian Russell
"All meditative practices lead to the same state."
Actually, different meditative practices produce distinctive states, while certain practices produce similar states.
+Faraday Defan I agree. There are many different types of meditation, this causes a lot of confusion. Some people meditate on a thought, some people meditate on a mantra. Many people think contemplation is the same as meditation. Years ago I ran into Allen Ginsberg and we had a discussion of his book Mind Breaths which as about meditation. It was a very confusing conversation as I found his idea of meditation was very different than mine. To me its better not to mix TM with anything else, because I know what TM means, but I have no idea of the other Frame of reference refers to. And yes there are other meditations that can be effectively the same as TM
Meditated 23 years. I quit doing it and felt a whole lot better. Did nothing other than make me feel spaced out. Beware of negative effects.
+randy szymkowski Appears you are still suffering....hope you recover...did it take all 23 years to arrive at this conclusion...inquiring minds want to know.
R Chandler LOL! You're not listening to me sir. You're spinning and distorting my words. I'd compare TM to drinking booze or smoking pot. It may have a relaxing effect, numbing would be a more accurate, but it did not raise my awareness or consciousness. It did quite the opposite. If TM makes you an enlightened person, then great. Other people have had negative experiences as well. Go to minet.org and become truly enlightened. J'ai guru dev buddy!
I've practiced both TM and Vipassana Meditation. I feel more at home with Vipassana Meditation - each to his own.
TM and Vipassana have different effects. TM enhances sense-of-self, mindfulness and concentration both reduce sense-of-self. There are long-term differences in health effects as well. The most important difference is that Vipassana is attentional training you master, and so, the relaxation effects become less and less over time as you become better at paying attention, while TM is not something you master, and so the relaxation effects remain the same whether you have been doing TM for a few months or a few years or a few decades.
dont promote TM in that way...everybody who want to lern TM..check out NSR-USA..its the same method and it cost only 20 dollar
There is no "method" to TM. TM is [hopefully] an intuition about thinking a mantra without effort that results from the student going through the carefully choreographed 4-day long (an hour or so a day) TM class. It turns out that there WAS a head-to-head study of NSRand TM done many years ago by a team of researchers from Harvard (mindfulness meditation), Maharishi University of Management (TM) and "low-mindfulness relaxation (essentailly NSR). The NSR technique had no long-term effect on the practitioners : www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2693686 (ALexander et al 1989)
While the official NSR course materials didn't exist when the study was performed, as far as I know, the "low mindfulness relaxation" group was taught using the mantra meditation practice similar to that described in eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ144234 (Smith 1976):
"CMS involves mental activity centered around a meaningless word, called a "focus." The focus we will use is the word "shanti." I will first read the instructions to acquaint you with them, and then I will reread them slowly and would like you to begin practicing as I read. We will then practice as a group for IS minutes. Here arc the instruc- tions: Sit up straight in a comfortable position."
"Close your eyes. Give yourself a few minutes, about two, to settle down. Let the focal word repeat itself in your mind as effortlessly as possible; let it come to you and start on its own. If it won't repeat itself on its own, you may gently begin it, providing you do so with a minimum of effort. Whenever you notice you have been distracted or that your mind has wandered, let your mind return to the focal word as gently and effortlessly as possible. Let this happen easily, without making a big thing of it. Distractions, especially inner distractions, are an important part of the processes involved in CMS. They arc normal and healthy. You are practicing CMS when they occur."
The NSR-like study reported a few short-term effects ( 6 months) in psychological tests people using those instructions that were comparable to the results found in the TM group. However, in the MUM-Harvard paper, the researchers tracked the subjects fo3 months for blood pressure, fpr 18 months (for psychological tests) and for 3 years (for longevity -these were all rest-home residents in their 80s, so, 3 years is a LONG time), and found: that the NSR group did worse than the control group on every measure, which was predicted by both the mindfulness researcher and the TM researchers, though not the researcher who thought that the NSR group would do just as well as TM. Data collection was done by graduate students at Harvard University, and data collectors were blind to which subjects were doing what practice.
The TL;DR: no, NSR, is NOT the same as TM. TM is taught iusing a carefully rehearsed interactive teaching method over a period of 4 days, while NSR and similar practices are learned from reading books or watching non-interactive videos.
The difference is quite obvious in the short and middle term and while there's no research on 30-to-50 year NSR practitioners, there is with TM.
i am sry to tell you and the organisation that i know both..the Uncle from my Girlfriend is TM Teacher and i know that both methods are exactly the same.I Know that you have to act like you do..i wish you only the best but dont promote a method that cost so much...oh what about the TM Mantras?Its personal?..lol..no its not..its given by Age and gender..you can easily google the List of Mantras...btw i love the Movie David want to fly!..
+Mark Arend Anyone who persists in calling TM a technique at this level of detail in a discussion simply doesn't grok TM.
TM IS NOT a technique.
Oh, and I am not a TM teacher, so I don't have to "act" like anything.
Whats the technique?
***** thanks, I use the technique offered by natural stress relief, also taught by ex TM teachers and also have had a look at ACEM. Spread the word as it's a shame people are getting ripped of by TM.
Alan Crabb Absolutely false! As a Vet I tried many of these 'just like TM' meditations. Headaches, confusion and wasted time...TM is entirely different--and can't be learned online or in a book. It just isn't the same. I recommend doing things in a proper way. There are hundreds of scientific studies verifying the benefits of TM. And there have been many studies comparing TM to these other techniques. TM is found to be twice as effective in many of these meta-analyses..Anxiety, high blood pressure, etc. Yes, I know they claim they are teaching something the same a s TM. Not so.
Not the case with Natural Stress Relief and you can see that by TMs criticism of it, which is that it doesn't offer the support of a teacher. I have been using Natural stress relief for a couple of years and it is great and cost me £10. So you may have tried these ' just like TM meditations' but it doesn't sound like you tried NSR.
Alan Crabb but have you tried Acem and NSR? The two that are basically the same (so I understand) as TM? I have been practicing Vipassana for years, but it is a completely different method entirely. I really appreciate the folks that have tried TM, Acem as well as NSR and to see what they feel. I don't like the fact that TM is so expensive while just about every other form is offered for free for the betterment of society. I can afford it, but am a bit put off that the org I am looking at wants $1K to learn it.
Happy30Too Hi, straight after my discussion with you I realised I was arguing against something I hadn't tried.
I had a search on the net for critical posts concerning TM and even though there was a lot none of them questioned the results.
Next I looked for a TM teacher and there was a course starting next day. Went to the intro, paid my £300 and started doing my meditation. Had flu not long after, so stopped-too ill- but started again in the new year.
I have found the results after 3 weeks amazing and having a teacher has meant I am doing it correctly. Before I was trying to focus on the mantra and concentrate on it.
I'm dealing with work much better, I see solutions to problems that arise, I'm more focused, more positive. My ex has mentioned that I seem more grounded.
So thanks for that conversation, I may never have done it otherwise. I would recommend TM because you get a teacher and a manual didn't work for me. And it was only £300 which you can pay in installments.
Combine it with vitamin b
It’s important to understand that yoga is there to take one away from all the stresses and pressure of material values. In the end you should be living like a Hindu monk with no interest whatsoever in wealth or fame. It really is not there to make one more successful in business or increase your social skills.
Really for a professional TV setup - they didn't even get the mics right…
Is Kristi radiant or what? That's what TM does for you.
Not sure about this chick
She said “in my book” and I was like, huh? Then she was like, “wha?”
My prefrontal cortex be hurtin’ ‘er nite...
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Im a Believer
wechseln
The Transcendental Meditation differs from a neutral healing method by the religious accentuation. Maharishi-authorized TM teachers vowed in an affidavit to exclusively use the Mediation method mediated within the Association and to obey and worship the Maharishi and his organization.
The delivery to the masters of tradition is at the heart of the "puja," the ritual introduction of each meditator to the Transcendental Meditation, in which Hindu deities are called.
Report of the Federal Government 1979 on youth religions page 10
The review of meditation by the standardized checking system deliberately does not address the personal problems of the meditator. The problem solving is to be done only in a schematic way through a 30-point system and through increased meditation. However, unworking the problems that have been broken up is a method that activates psychic contents, including frightening and threatening ones, and raises concerns about mental health issues.
Thus, according to doctors, the application of Transcendental Meditation may have a relaxing and positive effect, but with those meditators who are either unstable or in crisis, cause very negative effects that neither the method nor the organization can and will respond to , However, this presents a danger especially for young people who meditate extensively, which in some cases can lead to severe mental disorders.
Importantly, during recruitment, the TM is only touted as a technique of relaxation, although the TM movement is focused on permeating public life with power and influence.
The Federal Government has publications of the so-called "World Government of the Age of Enlightenment" in Seelisberg / Switzerland, from which these intentions emerge.
Wanna lose yourself-your feeling, engaged self? Have a non-surgical lobotomy? TM is for you!
Frank Feldman absolutely wrong. Studies show regular practice of TM leads to more a integrated, self actualized psychological sate of being.....less susceptible to peer pressure. Look at the research. My experience after over 40 years of regularly practicing TM is that life is more vital, activity is progressively more fulfilling...more enjoyment. I feel more my self, less over shadowed by by stressful pressures, so i can deal with life in a stronger, more dynamic way.
jrcsamad If you're not addicted to it, like a drug, try not doing it for the next 48 hrs. BWAHAHAHA. You can't, of course. You'd have a nervous breakdown. You poor fool. You've wasted your life.
Frank Feldman Funny you should make this comment. My son is visiting me from out of town for a few days and because we are so busy doing stuff, getting caught up, i have been skipping meditations or doing a very abbreviated session. I wouldn't do this otherwise as i have, over the years made it a priority because of the benefits that accrue with regular practice. While, i won't continue without my regular practice....you'll be glad to know that, in this hiatus from regular practice, i am feeling fine...no nervous breakdown...and not, at all feeling foolish.
Frank Feldman annnnd....the peer reviewed research on regular practice of TM shows that brain waves, as indicated by EEG patterns, shows that brain activity becomes progressively more coherent within hemispheres and between hemispheres. That coherence has been very highly correlated through related studies to higher IQ, creativity, moral reasoning, better concentration and other very beneficial qualities. All these increase with regular practice......increased brain wave coherence with associated increase of these qualities. Doesn't seem logical to stop doing TM based on this.
jrcsamad Read Mary Garden. It's not too late to join the living.
Try these nice reads too... Practical Meditation and The way and goal of Rajyoga... These are from Brahma Kumaris (omshantistore).
Who ever heard of a Brahma Kumari who got enlightened? Crap!
WATCH THE DOCO DAVID WANTS TO FLY MEHESH WANTED POWER SEX MONEY AND GURU DEV SAID SPIRITAL TEACHINGS SHOULD BE FREE
Spiritual ignorance fostered this scam
The interviewer is very annoying. She sounds like she should take the TM course again.
I definitely agree that it's dumb that they want you to pay to learn how to meditate. It's like... Hey! check this out, you can change your life exponentially doing something people have been doing for centuries, just pay me $$$$
Maharishi was an evil man WATCH DAVID WANTS TO FLY and he was not a maharishi He made that up If you investigate you will find out the truth But most people cant take the truth I worked hard for the TM movement and gave every thing only to find it was only a cult
You and a thousand others. There was always another course to pay for, another herb to buy, another technique to learn. We need to ask: Why have so many thousands left?
The only "Domino Effect" will be the falling over of all the savings for those getting caught in in the TM Enlightment Wild Goose Chase...
TM JUST WATCH DAVID WANTS TO FLY MEHESH WANTED SEX MONEY POWER I gave him every thing he gave me lies EX TM teacher
The filmmaker is deluded. They murdered Jesus. That doesn't make Jesus bad.
Meditation is Meditation, why hype something that is ALREADY FREE!!
Answer: EGO!!! MONEY!!!!! CONTROL!!!!
TM is extremely pathetic and sad :-(
Silly and uninformed comment! Do some research, and you will find that there are more than 300 scientific studies that show the benefits of TM in every area of the physiology.
There are also detailed studies that compare TM to other techniques of meditation. A Stanford meta-analysis found the TM technique to be twice as effective as other techniques in reducing anxiety--this is just one of many such studies comparing TM to other techniques. There are entirely different EEG patterns during the practice of TM.
Saying that all meditation techniques are alike--or that everyone meditates is completely out of touch with reality. As a Vet whose life was transformed when I learned the practice of TM (I had tried many other techniques that were not beneficial at all!), I can say that TM is the single most amazingly effective technology I have ever seen. Check out the David Lynch Foundation website. There are short videos which show the remarkable transformation that takes place in the lives of people when they learn TM.
If you don't want to practice and gain the benefits, that is your right. But if you are going to comment on something, it is just better to know what you are talking about. Otherwise, you are just wasting the time and deluding the minds of people who may be looking for knowledge
Like I said, "pathetic and sad"!!
Qi Huna
Just in the last year, more than 500,000 at-risk children in schools have learned TM. Their lives--and the schools as well--have been completely transformed. In this new year millions of children and thousands of schools will begin this life-transforming technique. My experience with TM--and the other, very different techniques I have tried--is that the TM movement under plays the benefits. As researcher Dr. Norman Rosenthal said, 'If there was a drug that could accomplish half of what TM does, it would be the biggest seller in the market.'
I know "meditation" is key, but don't hype one certain meditation like TM for profit cause than its like being a hypocrite and making profit from GOD/UNIVERSE/DIVINITY which is NOT a good thing for your own psyche, mentality and spirit!
Qi Huna
I have been around non-profit organizations much of my life.. And the TM organization is the most sincere--and effective--non-profit organization I have ever encountered. And again, I have tried other techniques of meditation so I know from direct experience that every technique is different and produces different results. Saying that all meditation is alike is like saying that all cars are alike--or all trees, or people, etc. Simply not the case.
These are clear statements of fact that science has verified for the last 45 years of researching meditation techniques. They are all different. And in my experience TM is easily the most profound. And that is why it is always such a joy to talk about it! And the best feelings I have ever had is when I have had friends and family learn TM. They always say the same thing (especially those who have tried other meditation techniques): 'Wow! I wish I would have learned this in school! It would have improved every area of my life!!'
I am so happy to see that TM is now being adopted by whole nations' education systems. It is world-transforming innovation. And I applaud the work that the David Lynch Foundation (beautiful short videos at their website) is doing to bring TM to those who need it most: Vets with PTSD (I am a Vet), abused women, at-risk kids in school, homeless people, etc. One technique which simply, naturally and effortlessly transforms life into a wave of happiness, health and ever-expanding joyfulness. And that, my friend, is always a joy to share with those who have ears to hear--and the clarity of vision to look at the research on different meditation techniques.
The only thing i gained from TM is watching the So called Maharishi(self appointed i note) saying we basically have to really do nothing ,now ive learned we dont have to really do anything , WE JUST ARE.Thats all we will ever be no more advanced so called techniques no more levitating con tricks no one can levitate !!
please be careful
meditation is not what you think
Yes, it is beyond the imagination of anyone.
I went to a free seminar on TM, at the home of a certified instructor, because I was intrigued by the SiriusXM program that trumpets it.
1. EXPENSIVE! I've been known to spend stupid money on stupid(er) things but this tightens even my purse strings.
2. Not a religion? Then why does it have all the trappings?
Sharon Dee 1- well worth the expense....for the technique from a trained instructor and the associated life time availability of an instructor. That instructor has to pay their bills, just like us, and the TM organization has expenses in promoting the practice and maintaing an infrastructure so the technique can be conveniantly found before and after instruction.
2 - well...it is an ancient technique that can lead to higher, more integrated states of consciousness that makes available more blissful, fulfilling states of being (my experience). But, in no way did this require acceptance of this notion or any religious trappings adopted to my life style. It just innocently happened.
It is taught with a traditional ceremony in gratitude to the teachers who have passed it on so we have it now. It's a reminder to keep teaching and practicing the technique as per the teachings of these teachers. I'm Jewish and still adhere to that tradition as my religion and don't find this any hindrance to my Jewish heritage....but, in fact have gained a better appreciation for Jewish principles from my experience of deeper levels of mind and consciousness through my TM practice.
i like them both, nice blondies
Only talking about it but never openly teaching it
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It's transcendental but it doesn't transcend the need for money.
Too bad the coaches want $2000 & up just to give someone a sanskrit word. If this is REALLY that powerful in our movement then it should be given for FREE. None of this "do you want your blessings to be in gross or net tithings"
KVW Reed Interesting isn't it that even though millions of people around the world have been taught this 'extraordinary life changer' of a technique they themselves remain mysteriously unable or unwilling to pass it on for free....
KVW Reed i paid 40 German Marks which was about $12 back in 1970.
Today 45 years later a student in the USA pays $ 360.
www.tm.org/course-fee
for a lifelong flat rate service of checking of the technique, participating in talks and lectures - worldwide!
+Chanson Dada Once you realize that TM is an intution, you realize, that by definition, you can't teach it. TM teachers are called "teachers" for marketing purposes. Their role is to take the student through a carefully choreographed 4-day long process meant to help the student develop an intuition.
Just because you have the intuition doesn't mean you have figured out a way of imparting that intuition to others. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was the first person in history to claim to have done so, and that is only because he had the full technological resources of 20th Century gadgets to help him devise a teaching method to train *teachers* in the TM *teaching* method. Before the era of video and audio recordings, the transmission of the intuition required an enlightened person to intuitively know what to say and do to help the student "get" the intuition. Now, there are videos that the TM teacher watches that train him without the distortion that arose from not having such precise recordings available to teach the teachers and so TM teachers can literally play the part of an enlightened teacher in a carefully choreographed and rehearsed teaching-play performed over 4 consecutive days.
*_In a nutshell_*: TM teachers are trained to impart an intuition over 4 days, but just because the TM meditator gets the intuition, doesn't mean they can pass it along.
Lawson English
My point still stands. There are TM 'teachers' in the world apparently capable of imparting an 'intuition' (seems rather vague) and yet none of them has broken ranks or even had the intuition to go ahead with "Hey you know what, I'm not going to charge for this anymore. The human race is so clearly in need of it that I'm going to give it away freely..... and hey you know what, I feel it's so important that I'm going to train others to do the same so that way we can disseminate the information to more people more quickly."
Or is the intuition to keep the money rolling in?
Chanson Dada
In order for the TM organization to recognize the students of a given TM teacher as legitimate students, that teacher has to ploay by the ruloes of the TM organization If the TM teacher wants to donate their 50% fee so that the student only pays 1/2 price, they are free to do so. If the TM teacher wants to pay the entire fee and get their half back, the TM teacher is free to do so.
in fa ct, there ARE teachers who give a 50% discount to people with financial problems, which means they get paid NOTHING.
But still, you''ll find a way to criticize, I am sure.
i think all meditation is over rated. just pack lunch and take a nap during lunch break. i have been doing for years and i am more productive and more even tempered. i also found out that taking healthy foods like whole meal oats and bread with lean meat and veggies and fruits will make feel and perform better .
you're absolutely right for healthy food, but that doesn't mean that meditation is overrated.
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Acem Meditation is not free. The introductory course is free but to take more lessons it cost. us.acem.com/content/view/full/236 Didn't know if you knew that.
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Absolutely false! As a Vet I tried many of these 'just like TM' meditations. Headaches, confusion and wasted time...TM is entirely different--and can't be learned online or in a book. It just isn't the same. I recommend doing things in a proper way. There are hundreds of scientific studies verifying the benefits of TM. And there have been many studies comparing TM to these other techniques. TM is found to be twice as effective in many of these meta-analyses..Anxiety, high blood pressure, etc.
Lol, do you know that EVERYONE meditates, whether you're aware of it or not??!
It's just that TM over hypes it a million-fold, pathetic but true.
***** thks for the tips buddy
THE MANTRAS ARE ON THE NET do not pay
The TM business model is broken and will continue to lose people to other styles (e.g., mindfulness, etc.) offered for free pretty much anywhere in the western world.
Lol. "Westerners" . Everything they learn always has to lead up to getting more money
Bunch of grown up babies. Sheesh adults with stress are the most childish, just sit your butt down and think it through silly (meditating lol)
Close your eyes and meditate while they steal your wallet.
I would take all these graphs and studies with a pinch of salt. They are not reliable for everyone, even if for some. I did TM for over 20 years and still had high blood pressure, and did another form of meditation for 20 years after that, both of which I enjoyed, so I have nothing against it, except the huge charges and the false claims. I found it very relaxing for about 16 years, then it just stopped working for me, and most of the time I meditated 2 hours per day. It does not induce perfect health, nor does it solve all problems. It is not a universal panacea for all adverse conditions and medical problems. A good teacher does not need all this pseudo-science crap, which I find dull and boring.