Curtis wrote > The term unstressing has nothing to > do with Selye's work. > The term 'stress' was coined by Selye, who worked closely with Marshy, so close in fact that Marshy borrowed the term 'unstress' from Selye's 'eu-stress'. Why this is so difficult for you to understand is beyond me.
Selye's definition of 'stress' is ANY demand placed upon a system. Selye told Marshy that meditation, on every measure that his institute had done, had the exact opposite effect as stress. So meditation is eu-stress, that is, unstressing. Stress, according to Marshy, is anything that distorts the normal, natural functioning of the nervous system. Judy Stein on stress: "MMY and Selye found a certain resonance in each other's thinking. Selye thought TM was good at relieving stress, and MMY accordingly adopted the term "stress" to refer to the concept of samskaras so he'd have a Western scientific-sounding model for the ancient yogic concepion." Read more: Subject: Re: TM and transcendence Author: Judy Stein Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: Mon, Jul 21 2003 1:19 pm http://tinyurl.com/4h9b9z Does anyone here think that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (founder of Transcendental Meditation) drew heavily on the pioneering work of Hans Selye in the field of stress? Read more: Subject: Hans Selye and TM Author: Tim Antonsen Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental Date: Fri, Jul 1 1994 http://tinyurl.com/6p9dql Lawson English on stress: "Certainly Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Hans Selye spent many hours in delightful conversaton together, and since Hans Selye coined the word "stress" in the first place, I'd agree that MMY's decision to relate TM to stress-reduction is directly related to Hans Selye's work." Read more: Subject: Re: Hans Selye and TM Author: Lawson English Newsgroups: alt.meditation.transcendental; Date: Fri, Jul 1 1994 http://tinyurl.com/6p9dql > > Correction: The author of the book was > > Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., Michael Peter > > Cain and Dennis T. Jaffe > > > > 'TM*: discovering inner energy and > > overcoming stress' > > Foreword by Hans Selye > > Introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller > > Dell, 1975
