Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: YAS: Meditating has instant effect on reducing stress

['Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]]

*From:* "lengli...@cox.net [FairfieldLife]" 
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>

Norman Rosenthal led a study on TM and PTSD that found that in 2 of 
the 5 subjects, brain imaging showed that the abnormally active 
amygdala had reset after teh first meditation, and stayed that way for 
the rest of the study.

People are desperate to find that mindfulness works, so they report 
even the most trivial findings as though they were important.

On 7/5/2014 1:23 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] 
wrote:


TMers are so desperate to "prove" TM to be "the best" that they'll 
diss any study that involves a "competing" meditation technique, no 
matter how trivial they claim it is. :-)
>
Has anyone else out there noticed that Barry, the science article 
writer, has never since 1995, ever cited a single scientific study on 
the effects of meditation, either pro or con? I wonder if Barry has ever 
actually read any scientific studies on meditation or mindfulness. Go 
figure.
>

ALL "research" on TM will be forever tainted because of the 
indoctrination given those who conduct the research by Maharishi and 
his parrot-teachers. From Day One of their exposure to TM they've been 
told that it's "the best," at the same time that they were told that 
all other techniques were garbage. That kind of indoctrination creates 
fanatics and cultists, not scientists.

You *don't* see people doing research into other techniques of 
meditation wasting their time trying to prove them "superior" to TM, 
or to anything else. They're content to do real research to see 
whether the technique they're studying has some beneficial effect. 
It's only *TM* "researchers" who are so petty as to feel the need to 
constantly put down other techniques and the researchers who study them.