it will change your life, but not how you think

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3830511&forum_id=2#34932624)

good luck. happy GC.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3830511&forum_id=2#34933053)

1) mindfulness

2) the Buddhist tradition of seeking tranquility by clearing your mind

3) TM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3830511&forum_id=2#34976371)

The idea behind the "sutras" is also LOL. These, which include "yogic flying," claim to manifest physical changes by thought. You accomplish this first by meditating to "transcend" regular consciousness, just like diving deep into water puts you in a place of quiet beneath the turbulence and tribulations of the surface chop. From there, you put the sutra into your consciousness, with the idea that the deep, tiny ripple it causes will grow in strength as it regains the surface level of being - again, like the small ripple deep below the surface becomes a large wave upon breaching it. I note that Maharishi did not think this analogy through well, as energy decays rapidly in water - much as the "powerful" flying sutra decays simply to skinnyfat meditators comically hopping around in a seated position.

This is "yogic flying." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlw8CxTkyxA

This is not to say that creating physical manifestations through meditation-like techniques are impossible. You can change your susceptibility to heat and cold - another promised effect of one of the sutras - by proper breathing techniques, like the Wim Hof method. You can change your heart rate and oxygenation the same way, and by tricking your body into entering the mammalian dive reflex. These are generally physical reactions to triggered physiological changes, however, and not "manifestations of transcendental thought" or other such nonsense.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3830511&forum_id=2#34978927)

And no, you don't need to buy into some form of bullshit. Just live your life, treat other people well, eat good food, exercise, and be happy.

The yogic flying sutra is "relationship of body and akash; lightness of cotton fiber." I just saved you four days with Doug and Linda Birx and $5k. Have fun.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3830511&forum_id=2#34978953)

No, I don't still practice. Most of us second-generation TM kids don't.

The people you meet are hippie nutcases that actually believe bullshit like the "Maharishi Effect" works (if you get 1% of the world's population to practice TM or the square root of 1% to practice the sutras, you get world peace). Most are extremely unhealthy and look it, and wholly consumed by the New Age bullshit surrounding the movement. They're the type of people that buy healing crystals and ritual cleansing ceremonies.

My parents and their closest friends are far less nuts, but they're still conditioned to get tired and crabby twice a day if they don't meditate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3830511&forum_id=2#34978984)

*assigns you same sound as every other 10 year old*

*tells you it's your 'personal magical sound'*

*a solid fundamental is performed*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3830511&forum_id=2#34979011)

I've never seen such a stressed, anxious, and unhealthy population as a whole as I have with TM practitioners. They replaced their other anxieties with constant worry about "being on the program," which is to say complete adherence to the dictates of the TM lifestyle. The right clothes, diet, foods, housing, etc. Ignore all that and you'll be better off, but it still demands the question of why TM practice wasn't enough to rid its followers of that stress to begin with.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3830511&forum_id=2#34979058)