[FairfieldLife] Re: Is MEDITATION making us ill?

This TM policy represents a major re-think around mental well-being and TM. In initiative this evolved of a necessity in response to what was a growing public scrutiny of mental health in the meditating community of Fairfield, Ia. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is meditation making us ill?

But, compared to the spiritual awakening and enlightenment that meditation can bring to a human incarnation, what is this down-side risk (likelihood) otherwise and how to manage that risk? Moderation is the golden rule? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is MEDITATION making us ill?

This is the new guideline around mental illness not only for the campus meditating community in Fairfield, Iowa but the whole of TM now in effect: http://portals.mum.edu/Customized/uploads/guidelines-for-mental-health.html

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is MEDITATION making us ill?

Our own meditators out in the larger meditating community from our long life experience with the TM organization will decry, “They'll Never Change”. Well, the movement changed on this. The TM movement moved on this. That took a lot of work in progress. Culture change will follow in time.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is MEDITATION making us ill?

I haven't read all of this yet, but from what I have seen this must rank as the most mature approach the movement has ever had to this issue. Huge progress has been made, and people have been educated. If this document is any guide, the movement seems to be moving away from its old dogmatic and

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is MEDITATION making us ill?

"the ice is melting" - lol. I just looked at it and yes, the language is unlike anything I have seen before from the movement - very straightforward and practical. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote : I haven't read all of this yet, but from what I have seen

[FairfieldLife] Re: Is MEDITATION making us ill?

The post-founder TM movement from the highest levels in honest deliberation very wisely changed on this whole thing using the best of modern science that is known, practiced and learnt around modern mental well-being now to figure it out. In TM this was the working out in policy