Some do. Mantras to Lakshmi are supposed to increase wealth. They have to do a lot repetitions though. In astrology remedials for the second house lord are supposed to help.
On 04/26/2013 03:34 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: > I am asking this in all seriousness, if mantras like this are effective, why > doesn't everyone in India use whatever mantras would create financial > prosperity and then everyone would have plenty of money? > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 3:26 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The American Heart Association Recommends TM for > Hypertension > > > On 04/26/2013 03:49 AM, Dick Mays wrote: >> The American Heart Association Recommends TM for Hypertension >> (Published online April 22, 2013) >> >> >> Beyond Medications and Diet: Alternative Approaches to Lowering Blood >> Pressure >> A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association >> >> An estimated 29% of American adults suffer from hypertension and it is >> projected to affect >1.5 billion people by 2025. It accounts for 13.5% of >> all deaths and half of all strokes and ischemic heart disease. The global >> hypertension-related public health burden is enormous. >> >> The American Heart Association just published a scientific statement on >> alternative approaches to reducing blood pressure, which included a critical >> evaluation of research on meditation techniques, including the >> Transcendental Meditation technique (TM). Here is what the AHA's statement >> said about the TM technique and other meditation practices: >> “TM may be considered in clinical practice to lower BP. >> Because of many negative studies or mixed results and a paucity of available >> trials, all other meditation techniques (including MBSR [Mindfulness-Based >> Stress Reduction]) received a Class III, no benefit, Level of Evidence C >> recommendation . >> Thus, other meditation techniques are not recommended in clinical practice >> to lower BP at this time.” >> Here is a link to the full report: >> http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/early/2013/04/22/HYP.0b013e318293645f.full.pdf+html?sid=0aea85a1-f240-4b68-8174-07ecc3e2cfec >> >> >> The following is a take on the AHA's statement by Dr. Robert Schneider, >> M.D., leading researcher on the effects of TM on hypertension: >> >> While the AHA statement is conservative, they and other official medical >> councils generally are, especially with vanguard therapies. However, the >> fact that the AHA statement concluded that only Transcendental Meditation is >> effective in lowering BP and that other meditation and relaxation techniques >> are neither effective nor recommended is major. In addition, the AHA >> statement reports that long-term T M practice leads to lower heart disease >> clinical events. This was also not found for any other behavioral >> intervention. >> >> Finally, it is noteworthy that this is the first time in 50 years of >> teaching and researching Transcendental Meditation that it has been >> recognized and recommended by a national medical organization that provides >> professional practice guidelines to physicians, health care payers and >> policy makers. This type of guideline statement has been what insurance >> companies have been requesting from us for many years. >> >> For these reasons, this week's Scientific Statement from the American Heart >> Association may be considered historic. >> > I'll say it again, lots of meditation programs can reduce blood > pressure. It's just that TM teachers wear suits. The AHA doesn't want > to send people to teachers wearing pajamas i.e. kurtajamis which many > Indians wear which are cool in hot weather and American teachers in some > paths adopt. And then maybe Girish cut loose some big bucks as a > donation to the AHA. > > Most meditation programs and gurus aren't concerned about impressing > western institutions. They have their practices which have worked for > centuries. The idea that just using a beej akshara is somehow superior > to a traditional mantra would be considered laughable. Example of how > beej aksharas are used in making a planetary mantra for Ketu more powerful: > > Om shram shreem shroum sah ketave namah > > Base mantra would be: Om ketave namah > > Mantras are formulas which are often enhanced by adding additional beej > aksharas. The technique of enhancing mantras is called samput. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
