Most people learn TM to address stress issues or other health issues. It's kinda a given that TMers would show certain tendencies.
The way you resolve this is not via anecdote, but via studies using control groups. Better controlled studies are better, of course. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : Lawson, really? TM is vital to your health? Given the numbers of healthy people who never do TM, and the high number of people with all sorts of health problems who have done TM for years that is obviously not true. From: "LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Difference Between Transcendental Meditation and On certain measures, such as cortisol levels, that is almost certainly the case. As always, the issues is between TM and other forms of meditation, not be tween TM and sleep. Sleep is vital to your health. So is TM. The difference is that if you need sleep, you spontaneously fall asleep during TM. You don't spontaneously start meditating during deep sleep if you missed your TM session. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Bhairitu, when I stopped smoking, having smoked a pack a day for about 8 years, I gained 30 pounds. Later learned that nicotine is a stimulent. AND, that if a person quits, keeps diet and exercise the same, they will still gain weight. Never thought of it as kapha pacifying! I do think that TM provides deep rest not provided by even deep sleep. On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 4:01 PM, "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: And exercise can play a role in both kinds. Certainly TM would provide some relaxation just as simple breathing techniques do. My tantra teacher was practicing very advanced meditations but not watching his diet though he didn't have the problem albeit when he was smoking. Why? Because tobacco is an anti-kapha herb. Like many he began putting on weight once he stopped smoking. He should have consulted an ayurvedic physician who would have replaced the tobacco with an herbal tea and diet that would have prevented congestion. On 07/01/2014 01:37 PM, LEnglish5@... mailto:LEnglish5@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: And, going out on a limb here, just a tad, EVERY POSSIBLE cause for a heart attack besides acute poisoning, is exacerbated by long-term stress. TM helps manage long-term stress, and it is pretty much a given that his chances of survival would have gone up at least a little had he been doing TM regularly. The controversy concerns whether or not some other stress-management system might have had as good, or better, an effect. L ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <awoelflebater@...> mailto:awoelflebater@... wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> mailto:sharelong60@... wrote : He wasn't a strict vegetarian, ate chicken and fish. But I think he ate a lot of cheese. And his job was stressful. I suggested that he begin doing just TM but he, God rest his soul, could be stubborn. Unless you have the detailed autopsy reports you won't know why he had a massive heart attack. It could have been clogged arteries or it could have been arterial fibrillation. It could have been an undetected heart valve problem, it could have been as a result of a bad combination of drugs, illicit or otherwise. When hearts stop you're dead but they can stop for lots of reasons. On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 1:20 PM, "Bhairitu noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Probably a massive. Was he a vegetarian? On 07/01/2014 09:13 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: The coroner said he dropped dead in an instant, didn't feel a thing. Neither he nor his family had a history of heart disease. As many do, he died of a heart attack on Monday morning as he prepared to go to work. On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 11:01 AM, "Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: Massive heart attack or congestive heart failure? On 07/01/2014 08:46 AM, Share Long sharelong60@... mailto:sharelong60@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: Thanks for posting this. Regarding Dr. Rosenthal's comment about TM and heart disease at the beginning, I am convinced that if my SO had continued meditating--he quit in summer 2006--he would not have had a fatal heart attack 3 years later at the age of 46. On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 10:37 AM, "email4you mikemail4you@... mailto:mikemail4you@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com wrote: TheDifference Between Transcendental Meditation and Mindfulness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpMXsbemKrk TheDifference Between Transcendental Meditation and ... Viewon www.youtube.com Previewby Yahoo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpMXsbemKrk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpMXsbemKrk
