interesting point and observation see more below ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <LEnglish5@...> wrote :
Even someone like me with genuine, diagnosed-by-a-doctor OCD, can transcend just fine. Obsessing about TM is Just Another Obsession and doesn't interfere with the practice any more than any other obsession -it's all just thinking, afterall, and if you can obsess, er, think, you can meditate. L It reflect the recent study by Radomsky which "shows that it's not the unwanted, intrusive thoughts that are the problem -- it's what you make of those thoughts" "People with OCD and related problems are very much like everyone else.""Almost everyone has these kinds of thoughts. They're normal, and they're a part of being human," Happen to review not long ago these article -.Still have the pdf files -Being a little busy but just in case you are interested can-may send it next time attached .http://www.researchgate.net/publication/260269497_Introduction_A_global_perspective_on_unwanted_intrusive_thoughts http://www.researchgate.net/publication/260269497_Introduction_A_global_perspective_on_unwanted_intrusive_thoughts The surveys were taken in different countries with different cultures and languages, (13 countries across six continents, including Canada, Argentina, Australia, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Italy, Sierra Leone, Spain, Turkey and the United States)potentially making it hard to directly compare the responses. ( Some of the more interesting differences that emerged were associated with the fact that some languages/cultures do not have a simple term or expression for ‘intrusive’: the IITIS questionnaire has to be translated in nine languages English, Cantonese, French,Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish.) Also, the survey questions may not have turned up an accurate number of intrusive thoughts among the participants and the study only looks at college students, not older or younger people, it still provides the first empirical evidence that obsessions might have their origins in the normal thought processes that characterize the stream of consciousness. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211364914000177 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211364914000177 here some more at the journal site http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-obsessive-compulsive-and-related-disorders/recent-articles/ http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-obsessive-compulsive-and-related-disorders/recent-articles/ If you are interested can send you a additional special issue on a global perspective on unwanted intrusive thoughts with a commentary by Professor Jack Rachman who situate the current findings within the historical context of intrusions and cognitive-behavioral approaches to OCD. Professor Rachman can be considered the “founder of intrusive thoughts”, at least in reference to OCD. A sample quote: "Not all uninvited thoughts are unacceptable. Some are pleasant,some amusing, and some can be creative. For example Mozart and Beethoven described how some of their musical thoughts “intruded”. Mozart's often arrived fully formed, and Beethoven had many that “pounded into his head.” Reviewing was easy since the study acknowledges several caveats that could affect the reliability of its findings and the remaining caveats was covered by Professor Jack Rachman`s commentary. BTW my dear Lazarus: Assuming that you have transcended quite often during a assuming long period of time.--your NS could-may be accustomed to the silent aspect of your mind and you feel-consider thought as noise and somehow painful and therefore "intrusive and compulsive"? Happen quite often...just saying.... -sniper snip
