But isn't that really what you meant, feste? Most here would agree > (and have many times in the past) that TM has positive effects on BP-- > it's one of the main reason many of us started. It's the other > ludicrous claims that most rational meditators can't bring themselves > to take seriously.
I wonder if many movement people have any issues with BP? I would think that with a health conscious group this would be kind of a non issue. Certainly not enough to spend this much time on. Eat well, exercise, and hope you don't have a genetic pre-disposition for high blood pressure. Of course I could be way off with our aging mediators, maybe some of them have this problem now. I sure don't. I have to laugh at myself for being so concerned about this when I was young. I was so busy fixing problems I didn't even have that I ignored many real ones! It seems like the most likely people to actually do meditation are the least likely to need it for this. So it comes down to the other claims as the reason to meditate, and the health thing was just something useful for the sales pitch. The people who could use meditation the most are the least likely to do it IMO. The super agitate people I taught TM usually dropped it pretty quickly. Sitting still was torture for them. For a space case like me it was a blast! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2007, at 1:35 PM, feste37 wrote: > > >> The argument isn't over TM > >> and blood pressure, it's (1) how the TMO sees science as just a tool > >> to be manipulated to sell its products and (2) how TBs point to blood > >> pressure study to "prove TM works" really meaning "everything MMY > >> says > >> about anything must be true". > > > > I never said anything remotely resembling this. You invented it > > yourself. It's your fantasy. > > But isn't that really what you meant, feste? Most here would agree > (and have many times in the past) that TM has positive effects on BP-- > it's one of the main reason many of us started. It's the other > ludicrous claims that most rational meditators can't bring themselves > to take seriously. > > Sal >
