You are not alone! I had headaches for years and
years. Checking didn't help. MMY helped a little bit
when he told me I had been straining for many years!
(He actually found the whole thing rather funny
considering I was a TM teacher). I finally decided
that if I felt any head pain at all that I would just
stop the mantra and sit there very easily until the
pain left. This took a couple of weeks to get used to,
but it certainly stopped any straining and the
headaches left. One thing that helps prevent straining
is asanas and pranayama done slowly and correctly
before meditation. This helps the mind slow down and
the senses start to withdraw before meditation. Much
of straining is from a vata aggrivated mind with many
thoughts that needs preparation before TM.
Also, don't worry about "not" transcending. I
only transcended clearly on my TTC and then it never
occurred again until 12 years later where I
transcended with my eyes open walking out of the dome
while the mind was fully active. Then you realize that
"you" have always been transcendent, completely
outside of any relative measure. Then you will never
transcend again because what comes and goes is the
mind functioning and not the transcendent. So you get
to have "your" transcendent with or without the mind.
Your option, ha!
--- claudiouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Before doing the Sidhis it DID, in that it was an
> easy, pleasant and
> relaxing experience during meditation. But it didn't
> have any impact
> outside meditation on what I considered my major
> LIFE problems at the
> time - especially in comparison with all those
> "scientific" studies
> that raised so many expectations. This led me to
> doubt my own
> competence in the practice particularly as I didn't
> think I'd ever
> reached transcendental CONSCIOUSNESS, although a
> sense of transcending
> ordinary surface thinking was a common experience
> then. The Sidhis
> created more self-consciousness and sense of
> competetiveness - never
> hopped, for instance, as didn't want any "fake"
> experience. This
> completely undermined the innocence during TM, which
> lead to very
> subtle straining - with disastrous consequences. To
> this day - over 25
> years later - just CANNOT have easy meditations for
> more than a few
> days or weeks. Typically I don't think I'm straining
> anything but just
> get headaches and can't help finding this
> demoralising. No amount of
> checking sorted this out and generally felt that the
> TMO was only
> interested in success stories anyway. So I've had
> periods of not
> meditating followed by renewed attempts which end up
> being
> disappointing and short-lived, during which even the
> mild sense of
> transcending is a rare phenomenon. So if YOU are
> finding TM easy and
> relaxing just ENJOY it!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I saw recently a video posted on the net about
> Krishnamurti
> criticizing TM along with other meditations. He said
> we already have,
> as human beings, countless problems. Why add another
> - meditation? If
> it ends up being a problem for real, should one just
> GIVE UP or try
> and perservere????? Philosophically it seems
> important to me, but
> practically and hence rationally it's like
> Krishnamurti said - an
> extra, unnecessary problem. I now wish I'd never
> come accross it!
>
> --- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > MMY and the TMO aside, did (does) the TM technique
> help you?
> > Although no longer practicing, it did help me at
> the time.
>
>
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