--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Uniqueness Lie: Exposing the Lies of TM research, one at a time. > > The uniqueness lie and the hypometabolic lie. > > Question: Does TM, as is still touted in TM tracts, produce a > "hypometabolic" state, i.e a 16% drop in oxygen consumption? > > Answer: No. > > 3 groups of 9 TM meditators were studied to see if the claim of 16% > decrease in oxygen consumption could be replicated. The sample > included both males and females and novice as well as long-term TMers. > > Researchers found TM did not produce Wallace's claims of -16% O2 > consumption. Researchers Pagano and Warrenburg instead found the > following: > > "As one reviews the data...the outstanding features are the similarity > of and relatively small changes in VO2 which occurred during practice > of TM...The 4% decrease in VO2 found during treatment for the TM group > is considerably less than Wallace's reported 16% decrease and calls > into question his claim that the state produced by TM is > "hypometabolic". > > Meditation: In Search of a Unique Effect. Robert R. Pagano and Stephen > Warrenburg. >
Well, FWIW: caturthastu shvaasaprashvaayorviSayaavadhaaraNaatkrameNa bhuumijayaadubhayaakSepapuurvako[1] ***gatyabhaavashcaturthaH praaNaayaama***[2] ityayam visheSa iti | Bhojadeva calls it "stambharuupo gativicchedaH", and YKU speaks of "samiirasya jaya": tayoraadau samiirasya jayaM kuryaan naraH sadaa! That's what seems to "happen" to me almost immediately nearly every time I start meditating in TM style... [1] krameNa bhuumijayaat ubhaya-akSepa-puurvakaH [2] gati-abhaavaH [is] caturthaH praaNaayaamaH
