You left out, as a cause of anger, just plain bad manners, which is not really a cause, but an expression of it. When Primal Scream Therapy came on the scene, I think a lot of people looked on it as a way to *unload* their emotional baggage and some how , they would be purified. Maharishi thought the idea was stupid, yet *seemed* to practice it. BTW, does anybody know , first hand, if Maharishi ever apologized to anybody he ever unloaded on? --- On Fri, 4/9/10, Hugo <fintlewoodle...@mail.com> wrote:
From: Hugo <fintlewoodle...@mail.com> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Can meditation help control my anger? To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, April 9, 2010, 8:36 AM A rather irritating Guardian journalist goes in search of inner peace..... http://www.guardian .co.uk/lifeandst yle/2010/ apr/08/tanya- gold-meditation >From my own experience I'll say that TM does not prevent anger, there are no >shortage of stroppy, short fused people in the TMO. The only reason I don't >count myself among there number is that I retain a bit of self awareness and >can hold it back until I've rationalised whether someone deserves a good >kicking or not. In fact it was one of the great surprises to me that TM made me very angry indeed and quite a lot of the time, last thing I expected given the literature. Shame I was never asked to be in a study about it's effects, might have swayed the figures a bit. So what causes anger in meditators? Is it unstressing or an imbalance somewhere or the release of repressed urges and the revealing of my "true" self? Or am I just a miserable git who wants to destroy the world? Maybe TM is unsuitable for some people and we'd be better off doing a different, less fraught, type.
