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Tanscendental
Meditation
"Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite
reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep
within everyone."
"By
enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation
is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every
individual and every society to its full dignity, in which problems
are absent and perfect health, happiness, and a rapid pace of
progress are the natural features of life."
--Maharishi
Scientific
Research on Transcendental Meditation
After
the result of TM was proved at the logical level, scientists naturally
got attracted to conduct research on TM at scientific level-using
the most modem methods of science and technology. The first ever
scientific research on TM was conducted by Dr. Robert Keith Wallace
of U.S.A. who declared that during TM-the mind remains fully alert
but the body goes to deep rest-deeper than sleep. This state of
body and mind was termed as "Restful Alertness". Since then more
than 600 independent scientific researches have been conducted
on TM at numerous institutions in 32 countries covering all the
areas of human development. The results of all these scientific
research have been collectively published in six volumes of books
titled "Scientific Research on Transcendental Meditation Programme
-Collected Papers". All these research have shown innumerable
benefits of TM for the mankind. Few among them are:
Mental Benefits: According
to psychologists, we (human being) only use 5-15% of our mental
potential. This means we are only 5-15% effective. During TM we
come into direct contact with the rest 85-95% of the mental potential
we have not been using. Daily practice of TM, which takes about
15-20 minutes morning and evening, cultivate the energy and culture
it-until it is always available for our spontaneous use. The mind
becomes expanded and our awareness increases. The net result of
mental benefits are given below -
1.
Increased learning ability;
2.
Increased speed in solving problem accurately;
3. Improved
academic performance;
4. Increased
productivity;
5.
Improved job performance;
6. Increased
job satisfaction;
7. Improved
relations with others;
8. Clear
and undisturbed thoughts;
Physical Benefits:
Rest is the key word in any physical
performance. The body automatically heals and rejuvenates when
put to rest. We experience this at night, when we sleep, much
of the fatigue and tensions are dissolved by the rest.Though night
sleep dissolves fatigue and stress, the degree of rest is not
complete enough to remove more deep-rooted stresses. To remove
these stresses we need the deeper rest of TM. TM provides coherent
rest to the nervous system which result into--
1. Increased
physiological adaptability;
2. Increased
Psychological adaptability;
3. Increased
Sociological adaptability;
4. Improved
health;
5. Decreased
stress and anxiety;
Benefits
to Mind and Body: Transcendental
Meditation makes the nervous system more stable thereby resulting
into optimum mind-body co-ordination. Major benefits are:
1. Faster
reaction time;
2.
Decreased anxiety;
3. Relief
from Insomnia;
4. Overall
development of personality;
5. Increased
creativity;
6. Optimum
utilization of energy-thereby resulting into balanced and stable
health;
The Maharishi
Effect: The
Maharishi Effect is a phase transition to a more orderly and harmonious
state of life, as measured by decreased crime, violence, accidents,
and illness, and improvements in economic conditions and other
sociological indicators. The scientists who discovered this effect
named it in honour of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who
predicted 30 years ago that only a small fraction of the population
participating in the Transcendental Meditation programme would
be sufficient to improve the quality of life of the whole society.
During the past 16 years, this transformation of society has been
documented scientifically, first at the city level, then at the
state and the national levels, and most recently at: the global
level- the Global Maharishi Effect.
It has been found that the proportion of
members of a society necessary to generate the Maharishi Effect
is one percent practicing Transcendental Meditation or only the
square root of one percent participating in the group practice
of the TM-Sidhi programme. This proportion is so small that the
beneficial effects on society of the Maharishi Effect cannot be
accounted for by behavioral interactions of the participants with
the members of society.
Instead, the results indicate a field effect, by which an influence
of coherence produced by the participants radiates throughout
the society. Dr. John Hagelin (1987), a leading physicist in the
area of unified quantum field theory, points out that the great
range of distance of the Maharishi Effect could only be understood
as produced at the level of the Unified Field of all the Laws
of Nature recently' identified by modem physics.
The discovery of the unified field of natural law is perhaps the
most profound development of modem science. During the past twenty
years, physicists have been able to sequentially u unify the four
fundamental forces of nature. Probing in-to the functioning of
natural law, physicists have discovered that forces and particles
that appear very different at the scales of time and distance
with which we are usually familiar are in reality unified at deeper
levels of nature. This progress has culminated. In the recent
formulation of "superstring theory" which offers a complete mathematical
description of the unified field of natural law.
Comments
of American Educational Leaders on Transcendental Meditation
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