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The Maharishi effect

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I pasted description of the Maharishi effect along with the links to the studies on the effect on the peace assembly that took place in Washington DC in 1993 where a numbers of indicators where measured before, during and after the assembly

"This study presents the final results of a two-month prospective experiment to reduce violent crime in Washington, DC. On the basis of previous research it was hypothesized that the level of violent crime in the District of Columbia would drop significantly with the creation of a large group of participants in the Transcendental Meditation® and TM-Sidhi® programs to increase coherence and reduce stress in the District. "

Link to the full article here

I guess what I'm trying to say is that they don't claim the support the findings scientifically

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Mario
Last Updated on Saturday, 04 April 2009 00:14
 

Better sleep

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I now know that the quality of my sleep depends on how regular i am with my meditation. I meditate twice a day and even though, the morning meditation is the one i enjoy the most, the afternoon meditation is the one that help me get rid of the tensions of the day and help me sleep better.
The meditation technique i use is TM (Transcendental Meditation), just mention it in case you are looking for a good technique, this one in particular has being scientifically validated. It is a wonderful way of relaxing and releasing stress, it is natural and there are thousands of scientific studies from universities around the world and here in the US, American University is conducting one right now.
Hope this helps

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Mario
Last Updated on Saturday, 04 April 2009 00:15
 

My experience with Transcendental Meditation (TM)

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Maharishi Mahesh YogiProbably this description is going to be the most unscientific and biased possible explanation, but it is just my experience.

I started meditating in 1982, my life was pretty much a disaster no future ahead, but I don’t want to focus on that. The point is that I decided to go through the initiation process, that I learned many years later that the short ceremony, taking flowers, fruits and listen to a “pusha” which is like a poem that the instructor recites, was not intended to me but to the teacher. It is a reminder that he is a just a channel administering the knowledge, he doesn’t own that knowledge hence he cannot modify it. He needs to observe the protocol and nothing will be changed; reason why it doesn’t matter where you learn the TM technique everywhere is the same.

The process was pretty simple and I started meditating in no time, it is an individual one and yes you can go to the TM center or go to retreat, usually on a weekend,  but that is another story and certainly not a requirement.

At the beginning you just fell very relaxed after meditating for 20 minutes, and as you keep on practicing you go to deeper and deeper levels of interiorization, which is amazing, but don’t give it for granted because the experience is necessarily supported by the physiology. But what does it means, well if you are under stress, not sleeping well, sick, in general whatever affects your physiology your experience is affected, meditation still works but your starting point is way lower, so even though you feel better and relaxed after meditating  you no longer reach that beautiful deep experience.

Last Updated on Saturday, 04 April 2009 00:29 Read more...