--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > <snip> > I'm "for" trying to occasionally self-monitor, and when you > find that the self has slipped into a lower mindstate, one > involving outrage or anger or a feeling of defensiveness or > strong attachment, coming back to more balanced mindstates, > just as easily as one comes back to the mantra in TM. To do > so doth not require a whole *lot* of effort. You just learn > to recognize when the emotions are in control and you are > not, and "reverse the flow." Shift polarity and, instead of > focusing on the minus, refocus on the plus. > > It can make all the difference in a conversation, and in a > life. After all my years walking a spiritual path, I find > that there are very few things that I can recommend to newbs > on that path. I wish that there were more. But one of the > things that I can wholeheartedly recommend is that the > minimal effort expended to prefer Self to self-importance > in activity might be worth the expense.
Ya know, you're constantly urging "lurkers" to watch the TMers here and ask themselves whether the practice of TM produces the kind of behavior they would want to emulate (a rhetorical question to which the expected answer is "No"). Here you're recommending to seekers a technique that you claim will hasten their evolution. As a practitioner of this technique, do you really think that the behavior you exhibit, presumably as a result of the practice, would encourage anybody to take it up themselves? Is the way you conduct yourself here something you believe they would want to emulate?
