I may see an Ayurvedic practitioner. I am going to try Valerian and the tribal
mantra...definitely am of the pitta variety. Have resorted to 1/2 an
Ambien...which definitely puts you out...but it's more like being knocked out,
which is not the goal! I have no side effects that I'm aware of in the AM
however, so it's pretty tempting to use. I've had some success with Melatonin
but have to take a lot of it.
--- On Wed, 7/27/11, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] If TM were a drug?
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 9:58 AM
Knowing some ayurveda is useful. Insomnia is often related to a vata
imbalance though in summer excess pitta can cause it. Cooling and
calming herbs are useful. Spearmint tea is cooling for pitta and
somewhat calming for vata. Comfrey is also a good tea to use. Dr.
Lad's vata tea consists of equal amounts of cumin, coriander and
ginger. But if pitta might be an issue reduce or omit the ginger. Even
back in the 1980s I kept a bottle of valerian root tablets next to my
bed to allay insomnia. "Ram" is a calming mantra for vata.
I've also successfully used this tribal mantra to bring on sleep:
http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/02/health_tip_of_t_1.html
On 07/27/2011 09:40 AM, Denise Evans wrote:
> Sleep deprivation is a chronic issue - does TM allow you to nap at will?
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> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] If TM were a drug?
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 5:00 AM
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> On Jul 22, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Tom Pall wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:27 AM, cardemaister<no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
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>> "If Transcendental Meditation were a drug, conferring so many
>> benefits with few, if any, side effects, it would be a
>> billion-dollar blockbuster."
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>> - Norman E. Rosenthal, Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through
>> Transcendental Meditation
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>> Rosenthal began a private practice in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. in
>> 1979.[2] At the same time he began a research fellowship with Fredrick
>> Goodwin at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda,
>> Maryland. [3]This was the beginning of a 20 year career with the NIMH as a
>> Researcher, Research Fellow, and Senior Researcher.[2][4] Rosenthal
>> eventually became the director of seasonal studies at the institute and in
>> 1985 led research with 160 participants on the effects of SAD and later
>> studied the psycho-physiological phenomena of "spring fever". [5][6]
> If TM were a drug, it would be an unapproved one. First put in the
> market because of it's wonderful effects then quickly taken off the
> market because of its horrific side effects. This happens with drugs
> all the time as clinicians start noting dangerous side effects with a
> wider population than in the studies, though many of the ontoward side
> effects observed during clinical trials are swept under the rug.
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> TM would be eventually be classified as a Schedule I drug in the US,
> with the ability to waste lives at least as often as heroin.
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> There are dangerous drugs which are put on and kept on the market
> because although they have a profile where the dangerous side effects
> are about as frequent as their useful properties, these drugs are
> prescribed in tightly monitored situations. That's not the situation
> with TM, where it's get everyone to buy it and many to use it 8 hours
> a day and if there's a problem, get more rest, take more time before
> going into activity after taking the drug, something good is happening
> or it's the patient's fault, they weren't suitable for the drug.
> LOL!
> Actually, if TM were a drug there'd be massive lawsuits as it was found out
> the research results were fudged and/or faked to exaggerate the desire
> outcome.
> Sound crazy? This is actually what happened quite recently when TM
> researchers were found fudging data to make TM look better than it ever was.
> An old trend in this very dishonest org - ever since Keith Wallace was found
> manipulating the baseline on TM research of metabolic rate, falsely making it
> look like TM reduced metabolic rate wildly.
> It turns out TM reduces metabolic rate no differently than napping (which is
> actually what the majority of TMers are doing).
> Of course some anonymous person would leak the chart found in of the FFL
> files section which shows that TM is actually the worst of all techniques for
> reducing BP. Even regular mantra meditation was better! WTF?
> TM TBs would start laying on the train tracks in FF again and trying to jump
> from the three story buildings downtown. Overdoses of Amrit Kalash would send
> physicians scrambling for insulin. Sidhas would introduce garlic into their
> diets and begin mating like rabbits. MUM students would burn their silk asana
> pants in campus-wide protests. Robin Carlsen would drop pamphlets on the
> dome, while blasting Lady Gaga from loudspeakers.
> The pamphlets would be so long, no one would read them and everything would
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