--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps you are mixing apples and oranges. How many "elites" -- for > simplicity lets say those making over $300,000 /year, go to the local, > ubiquitous type of kinda funky yoga studio at the local small mall? > > Not many. They go to an expensive health club or spa to learn the same > thing. Many other examples possible where those making good incomes > are willing to pay a large premium for conveninece, competence, and > "class" (nice surroundings, people like them). Why do they pay $400 a > night to stay in a nice hotel when the local Motel 6 also has a bed > and shower? Why do they pay 35,000 and $300 a month to belong to a > private golf club when they could use the local public one for free? > > And while I am not saying it will happen, its not out of the realm of > possibilities that a wave of new high grade and respected research > will be published on TM. This would (further) differentiates TM from > other techniques -- (even if research would show the same for other > programs -- if it does not exist, TM will be strongly differentiated.) >
You mean like the 15 or so studies found in this pubmed search that have been published on TM in the last 18 mnonths? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed keyword [including quotes] "transcendental meditation" Items 1 - 20 of 240 Next 1: Yamamoto S, Kitamura Y, Yamada N, Nakashima Y, Kuroda S. Related Articles, Links Medial profrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex in the generation of alpha activity induced by transcendental meditation: a magnetoencephalographic study. Acta Med Okayama. 2006 Feb;60(1):51-8. PMID: 16508689 [PubMed - in process] 2: Wijk EP, Koch H, Bosman S, Wijk RV. Related Articles, Links Anatomic characterization of human ultra-weak photon emission in practitioners of transcendental meditation(?) and control subjects. J Altern Complement Med. 2006 Jan-Feb;12(1):31-8. PMID: 16494566 [PubMed - in process] 3: Walton KG, Schneider RH, Nidich SI, Salerno JW, Nordstrom CK, Bairey Merz CN. Related Articles, Links Psychosocial stress and cardiovascular disease Part 2: effectiveness of the Transcendental Meditation program in treatment and prevention. Behav Med. 2002 Fall;28(3):106-23. Review. PMID: 16463759 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 4: Arthur HM, Patterson C, Stone JA. Related Articles, Links The role of complementary and alternative therapies in cardiac rehabilitation: a systematic evaluation. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2006 Feb;13(1):3-9. PMID: 16449858 [PubMed - in process] 5: Krisanaprakornkit T, Krisanaprakornkit W, Piyavhatkul N, Laopaiboon M. Related Articles, Links Meditation therapy for anxiety disorders. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006 Jan 25;(1):CD004998. Review. PMID: 16437509 [PubMed - in process] 6: Rasmussen LB. Related Articles, Links [Transcendental meditation and smoking cessation] Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2005 Sep 22;125(18):2526-7. Norwegian. No abstract available. PMID: 16186885 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 7: Walton KG, Schneider RH, Salerno JW, Nidich SI. Related Articles, Links Psychosocial stress and cardiovascular disease. Part 3: Clinical and policy implications of research on the transcendental meditation program. Behav Med. 2005 Winter;30(4):173-83. PMID: 15981895 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 8: Chalmers R. Related Articles, Links Transcendental meditation does not predispose to epilepsy. Med Hypotheses. 2005;65(3):624-5. No abstract available. PMID: 15913905 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 9: Barnes VA. Related Articles, Links EEG, hypometabolism, and ketosis during transcendental meditation indicate it does not increase epilepsy risk. Med Hypotheses. 2005;65(1):202-3. No abstract available. PMID: 15893151 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 10: Orme-Johnson DW. Related Articles, Links Transcendental meditation does not predispose to epilepsy. Med Hypotheses. 2005;65(1):201-2. No abstract available. PMID: 15893150 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 11: Collins MP, Dunn LF. Related Articles, Links The effects of meditation and visual imagery on an immune system disorder: dermatomyositis. J Altern Complement Med. 2005 Apr;11(2):275-84. PMID: 15865493 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 12: Schneider RH, Alexander CN, Staggers F, Rainforth M, Salerno JW, Hartz A, Arndt S, Barnes VA, Nidich SI. Related Articles, Links Long-term effects of stress reduction on mortality in persons > or = 55 years of age with systemic hypertension. Am J Cardiol. 2005 May 1;95(9):1060-4. PMID: 15842971 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 13: Orme-Johnson DW, Barnes VA, Hankey AM, Chalmers RA. Related Articles, Links Reply to critics of research on transcendental meditation in the prevention and control of hypertension. J Hypertens. 2005 May;23(5):1107-8; author reply 1108-9. No abstract available. PMID: 15834299 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 14: Schneider RH, Alexander CN, Staggers F, Orme-Johnson DW, Rainforth M, Salerno JW, Sheppard W, Castillo-Richmond A, Barnes VA, Nidich SI. Related Articles, Links A randomized controlled trial of stress reduction in African Americans treated for hypertension for over one year. Am J Hypertens. 2005 Jan;18(1):88-98. PMID: 15691622 [PubMed - in process] 15: Walton KG, Fields JZ, Levitsky DK, Harris DA, Pugh ND, Schneider RH. Related Articles, Links Lowering cortisol and CVD risk in postmenopausal women: a pilot study using the Transcendental Meditation program. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2004 Dec;1032:211-5. PMID: 15677413 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 16: Parati G, Steptoe A. Related Articles, Links Stress reduction and blood pressure control in hypertension: a role for transcendental meditation? J Hypertens. 2004 Nov;22(11):2057-60. Review. No abstract available. PMID: 15480086 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 17: Canter PH, Ernst E. Related Articles, Links Insufficient evidence to conclude whether or not Transcendental Meditation decreases blood pressure: results of a systematic review of randomized clinical trials. J Hypertens. 2004 Nov;22(11):2049-54. Review. PMID: 15480084 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 18: Walton KG, Schneider RH, Nidich S. Related Articles, Links Review of controlled research on the transcendental meditation program and cardiovascular disease. Risk factors, morbidity, and mortality. Cardiol Rev. 2004 Sep-Oct;12(5):262-6. Review. PMID: 15316306 [PubMed - in process] 19: Kaski JC, Aldama G, Cosin-Sales J. Related Articles, Links Cardiac syndrome X. Diagnosis, pathogenesis and management. Am J Cardiovasc Drugs. 2004;4(3):179-94. Review. PMID: 15134470 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] 20: Barnes VA, Treiber FA, Johnson MH. Related Articles, Links Impact of transcendental meditation on ambulatory blood pressure in African-American adolescents. Am J Hypertens. 2004 Apr;17(4):366-9. PMID: 15062892 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] > And its not unreasonable the the "new" TM (taught in a SV bulidng, by > teachers doing program 6 hours a day, living in SV house, etc) may > have positive factors associated with it. > > It is not a differentiated set of qualities that you would pay a > premium for. The top 2-5% of the population may very well be willing > for the "right" product. Again, I am not saying the new TM will fill > the bill, but its not an unreasonable conjecture that it might. > I think it will and in fact, is. 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/
