Why do you think that only reading about person A by what it written by person B (where person A uses only negative criticism about person B) can gives you some information about person B, that more reliable than
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBUFzP9C1w , which actually enables you to examine person B more accurately (to hear and analyze what he has to say, to read his body language, to see how he responses to questions, etc.)?
I addressed this a few posts up. The David Lynch site speaks of stress. If relaxing is not the antidote to stress, I don't know what is.
It is a relaxation that is achieved by using
effortless mental technique that, if it is practiced right, does not try to achieve anything during the practice.
Unstressing is a natural result of stress release during the re-normalization of the trained mental\physical system, and one has to be aware of the amount of unstressing in order to reduce the tensity of TM practice, if he\she experience periods of heavy unstressing.
It is clear that Joe Kellett did not tune his TM training according to his periods of heavy unstressing, and as a result he did not use TM correctly, which led him to experience painful results of heavy unstressing. It is very similar to the following case: If one feels severe muscles pain during training and he ignore it, it does not have to be surprised by the pains of over-trained muscles. The same holds also it TM training simply because body and mind are actually two aspects of the same system. I can tell you that I experienced periods of heavy unstressing, I reduced the tensity of TM practice, and this period was naturally over.
Some of the studies done by TM scientists simply show that some of the same physiological results you can achieve by relaxing completely are achievable by TM. Nevertheless, according to TM advocates, tests have shown that TM produces "neurophysiological signatures that are distinctly different from relaxation and rest "[Judy Stein, personal correspondence]. Critics disagree.
* The particular value of these physiological changes one can achieve by meditation have not been shown to be unique to transcendental meditation.
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http://skepdic.com/tm.html
At the end of
* Michael D. Coleman writes:
When you no longer need that protection, you will be willing to go through the pain and struggle of breaking out from within.
I agree with him. At the moment that we are able to manage our life, we must not give to anyone or anything to do it for us. And this is exactly the simple fact about TM practice if it is done correctly, which means a totally effortless mental training that gently uses the natural phenomena of thoughts process in order to gradually be aware of quieter level of it, inducing the simplest level that is naturally free of any activity and like Archimedean point, enables the best basis for all levels of activities, whether they are experienced as physical or mental.
Moreover, this simplest state is actually the unified source of both physical and mental phenomena, and therefore enables the natural harmonious linkage among these aspects, and the best conditions to manage our life, exactly because one trains his\her mind to be aware of any possible level of his thoughts process, where this ability actually reinforces his\her flexibility to manage his\her life.
At any time any person that uses any tool, including a tool like TM technique, is the one and only one authority to manage his\her life, and must not blame any other person or organization if he does not no to use his\her own skills in order to save and develop his\her life.
So it can't be used in order to conclude anything about TM.
I had not read that page. I looked into it a bit more and found his story here:
http://minet.org/www.trancenet.net/personal/kellet.shtml
In it, it's fairly clear, he had his mental break as a result of the intense (non relaxing!) meditation routines over a period of months.
Even if he had some mental fragility before he went in, this does not mean you get to point a finger at him and dismiss him. You are the one waving your hands, to distract from and downplay criticism.
Once again, any adult person (unless he\she has mental problems in doing so) is responsible to manage his\her own life in any circumstances, and joe Kellet clearly was not able to do that in real time.
See what I mean. Shame on you.
There is nothing to be shamed. Unfortunately Joe Kellet clearly was not able manage his life in real time.
I reserve the right to doubt this.
Please support your claim by using a peer-reviewed scientific long-term research, which clearly supports Joe Kellet arguments against TM about the majority of the population that practicing it around the world.
I re-read it, it remains odious.
No, it simply based on what was already written by Joe Kellet by his own words in his site, about his mantel instability.
Nope. Not playing your game.
My game? You are the one who wrote "At any point I could, and did, open a new tab and go look for balance.", so please actually demonstrate it.
