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PERCEPTIONS
Etermal India
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TM : SCIENCE OF CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE
The Transcendental Meditation tech-
nique is a simple, natural, effortless process
that allows the mind to experience subtler
and sublime levels of the thinking process
until thinking is transcended and the mind
comes into direct contact with the source of
thought.
TM technique is a process by which one
contacts the source of pure creativity and
intelligence at the basis of the thinking
process, allowing this creative intelligence
to be expressed in greater clarity of mind,
greater efficiency of action, and increasingly
fulfilling achievements in daily life.
Rest is the basis of all our activity.
How well we perform depends on how
rested we are. When we have a good night's
sleep, the activity of the day is effective and
almost effortless. When we have a poor
night's sleep, activity is ineffective and very
difficult. When we have no rest at all, activ-
ity is all but impossible.
Rest is the basis of successful activ-
ity.
Successful activity leads to fulfilment,
and the automatic result of fulfilment is
happiness. Basically, our happiness de-
pends upon the quality of our rest. The TM
technique provides the deepest state of rest
yet measured, deeper than sleep.
Restful Alertness
There are four states of consciousness
— waking, dreaming, deep-sleep and rest-
ful alertness. In the restful alertness state,
body is rested but the mind is alert. Through
TM technique, a person automatically
reaches the state of restful alertness. In
this state the person is able to establish
contact with creative intelligence and tap
field of energy.
Though simple in nature, the practice of
TM needs the assistance of a trained medi-
tator.
Scientific evidence over the decades in-
dicates the beneficial effects of TM to over-
come stress, tension, drug abuse and simi-
lar other syndromes that a modem person
faces. Through TM, body's automatic func-
tions (heart rate, respiratory cycles, brain
waves etc) can be modified to bring in a
state of cheerfulness and happiness.
Advanced stages of TM bring out the
hidden divinity and fill the person with ex-
perience of cosmic consciousness that can't
be described in words.
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Cosmic Consciousness
Waking
Maharishi theorises that thinking the
sound has a 'vibrating' effect on the
nervous system ........
Beneficial Effects of TM
TM leads to physiological, psychological,
sociological
and
ecological
stability,
growth and integration.
Psychological growth — development of full
potential of thinking, understanding, and
feeling — is enhanced and enriched as in-
dicated by :
growing creativity
growing intelligence
growing self-esteem
growing sociability and friendliness
growing emotional stability and self-suffi-
ciency
growing tolerance
Sociological Integration — the harmonious
coexistence, coordinated growth, and mu-
tual fulfilment of the different behavioural
patterns of society — increases, as indi-
cated by :
increased integrating influences
decreased discordant influences
decreased stress
reduced use of alcohol
decreased crime rate
Ecological Integration — the wholeness of
the individual's relationship with his envi-
ronment — blossoms, as a result of the
total effect of the practice, which in-
creases : physiological, psychological and
sociological growth, stability and integra-
tion.
TM is easy
Anything that is natural must be easy and
effortless. It is easy to talk, to eat, to
sleep, to enjoy our friends — and because
it is so easy it's also effortless. The same
is true of the TM technique., Once the
technique is learned, the process flows —
easily and effortlessly.
(D.L.P.)