Ha ha! Quite funny (and true, tho I doubt that everyone on this forum would agree!)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > Of course the TMO doing it's own research would be a little like Verizon > or AT&T doing research on the benefits mobile phones. ;-) > > On 09/09/2012 10:17 AM, sparaig wrote: > > Like anything else, TM can become a crutch. > > > > That said, the research coming out of the VA and DoD will be interesting, > > and the ongoing multi-year (multi-decade is the stated plan) research on > > the Norwich University cadets will offer a lot of insight into how > > exceptionally physically healthy young men and women respond to regular TM. > > > > You can't survive 4 years of military training in a military academy if you > > are physically frail and modern military training is supposed to weed out > > the weaklings without killing them, so this will be about as ideal a test > > of TM's effects on healthy individuals as you could hope for. > > > > L > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mjackson74" <mjackson74@> wrote: > >> There have been a lot of posts here on FFL about TM scientific research. > >> Personally I think, all EEG and EKG evidence aside, there is ample > >> subjective, anecdotal evidence that TM has positive benefits. I still do > >> it after 37 years (its not the only practice for me - chi gung and other > >> mantra meditations). > >> > >> But in fairness I think one has to also weigh that against all the people > >> who learned TM (the Movement says, what 6 million or so?) and dropped the > >> practice AND the many many many casualties of doing TM long term and we > >> alllllll know some people who fall in that category. I just think it > >> disingenuous not to take such things into account. > >> > >> Maybe its partly just a Movement failing, in that in any TM facility there > >> never were any programs in place to deal with people who were going > >> through heavy "unstressing" - it was either get straightened out or get > >> lost. > >> > >> And that is the problem that I think most of us who ever had problems with > >> TM. Meaning that the behavior of the people who have always run the > >> Movement has NEVER been in line with the high ideals the Movement > >> officially espouses. And if the behavior of the people who have been > >> meditating for all those years is as awful as it consistently is, you > >> gotta wonder just how grand the effects of TM really are. > >> > > > > >
