TM - Discovering Inner Energy and Overcoming Stress [antikvár]

ForewordIt was with great pleasure that I accepted the authors' invitation to write a Foreword to this volume. I claim no expertise in Transcendental Meditation (TM), or in the Science of Creative Intelligence (SCI), which was derived from the former. However, it was my good fortune to have spent almost an entire day with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at one of his international symposia on SCI at Queen's University. There, joined by many meditators, we discussed the relationships between Transcendental Meditation and my work on the medical aspects of stress. Ever since then I have felt it would be an extremely fruitful development to explore in detail the obvious psychologic influence exerted by TM on somatic stress, as the latter is understood in medicine. And it is this need which is most successfully filled by the present volume.Even a glance at the table of contents will indicate the range covered by the authors' examination of the interrelation and interaction between meditation and stress, particularly:1)their impact upon the crisis of modern life;2)techniques involved in contacting pure awareness;3)the physiology of consciousness and the objectively demonstrable bodily and mental changes associated with TM;4)the effects of TM as a means of psychotherapy; and5)the use of this technique for developing creative intelligence and thereby approaching a solution to many of our personal and social problems.The present work shows that TM's physiologic effectson metabolism, breathing, skin resistance, blood lactate, brain waves and the cardiovascular systemare exactly opposite to those identified by medicine as being characteristic of the effortI :I ;.i im''' Mi