I don't regard a BBC documentary as a reliable source. And your notion that resting twice a day for 20 mins is just as good as doing TM doesn't accord with my own experience. Nowhere close. I have also taught TM to hundreds of people, and I have seen the results directly. The TM technique works very well, and that's why these studies get funded.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sep 5, 2008, at 2:52 PM, feste37 wrote: > > > Tell that to the National Institutes of Health, Vaj, which has funded > > all the following programs. Impressive results, don't you think? Or > > perhaps you think the NIH is just fooled by slick marketing? I think I > > know who the fool is. > > > Perhaps you missed the recent BBC special on meditation. It had a > nice section debunking the cardiac claims of TM and their whacky > "unified field" claims, much of it funded by the NIH. > > The results it turns out are not as impressive as you've been lead to > believe. In actual fact, they are clinically insignificant. I'm > guessing you missed the posts of a former list member, Ruth, a > physician and reviewer of medical research for congress? This has all > been debunked a number of times here and is kind of old news. > > That's not to say that resting is not good for you. Resting is good > for you. But there's an insignificant difference between TM and a > person who rests twice a day, regularly. > > I think the American taxpayers should sue for their money back if you > ask me. They just don't realize it's been stolen from them yet! > > If you look at independent research on TM you will see that the vast > majority of their claims have been either refuted and are highly > exaggerated, but mostly the latter. > > Here a link for the Meditation Special on the BBC: > > Link > > There's also been a nice review of the medical claims of TM and other > forms of meditation. TM doesn't fare so well at all, although we are > now actually seeing insurers beginning to reimburse other forms of > meditation for specific ailments (e.g. depression). >
