--- In [email protected], "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > No puja = no parashakti. Slow, slow path. A dead > > mantra. Too bad. Why were they so arrogant as to > > remove the puja? Who's name do they teach in? They're > > own? Where do they say this practice came from, the > > tradition of Gunther? Sound like spiritual fools to > > me. Of course all IMHO > > -Sri Peter (Knows everything) > > > So, you mean Herbie Benson's relaxation response does no good, or > perhaps may produce relaxation but no spiritual growth. And that the > mantras have an enlivening quality other than as a vehicle to the > transcendent. Personally, I like my mantra. Would not want to trade. > I am just curious if the two approaches have any measureable > difference, or if the difference is just on the meta level.
Good questions. When a team of TMing and non-TMing scientists attempted to impart 3 different meditation techniques to a randomly selected group of elderly residents of rest homes, the findings were that the attempt instill the same level of expectation for all three techniques had suceeded but that what the researchers were calling Benson's RElaxation Response had the least effect of the three techniques, while TM had the most effect on most measures. Benson's response: it wasn't really the relaxation response that was taught even though the researcher in charge of training the RR teachers had been a proponent of the technique. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Ever feel sad or cry for no reason at all? Depression. Narrated by Kate Hudson. http://us.click.yahoo.com/CQDrNC/ubOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
