What Ive Learned From Three Years Of Daily Transcendental Meditation
Below is an extract from tragedian JB Minton's memoir on his experience learning the TM method. You may find the original vendible on Medium here.
I almost got run off the road, and it was my fault. I flipped the man the finger. I glanced at him across the lanes of highway traffic, looked him in the eye, and mouthed the words my finger had previously spoken. And it almost got me murdered. Something needed to change. I needed to find a means to control my bad conduct and my life.
Now, I'd been practicing mindfulness meditation on and off since the turn of the century, but the benefits were minimal at best. Regardless, I ended myself yelling at folks in traffic. So, if a new strategy was going to succeed, it would be measured by my not yelling at people in traffic.
Long story short, it [the TM method] performed better than I could have expected. Fast forward three years, and not only am I not yelling at people, but my wife and children demand me to meditate. The change is significant.
The Expected Benefits of TM
Let’s make a list of the benefits that we would expect from bringing meditation as a practice into our lives?
- Inner calm
- Inner Peace
- Inner clarity
- Inner focus
- Inner inspiration
- Inner happiness
- Feel better, increasingly healthy. Energy!
What Happens During TM?
Transcendental Meditation is a simple, natural, effortless technique that allows the active, thinking mind, all of it, to just settle lanugo and wits quieter levels of thought, and sooner wits what can only be referred to as, “The Source Of Thought.” Some scientists undeniability this the Unified Field of Consciousness, but all these descriptions are just metaphors referring to the ending of thought, as far as the mind can reach, the whet and no further.
From my experience, this descending wits every day is unbearable to start shedding the traumas and stresses I’ve placid over the years and uncork tapping into a source of inexhaustible creativity, joy, and kindness.
How Do We Know That TM Works?
There have been hundreds of studies on the effects of TM over a large population since the technique was brought from India to the world in the 1950s. And what the results show is that, during TM, your soul gains a state of rest and relaxation in many aspects that are greater than the deepest part of deep sleep. And what that deep rest does is that it allows that anxiety, that fear, that tension, that wrongness all dissolve like a warm steady rain washing mud off a sidewalk into a ditch.
Why TM Works For Everyone
It’s pre-engineered in our minds that they will gravitate towards stillness and rest. TM is a technique that allows us to let nature take its undertow within our minds and all the benefits that we’ve discussed spritz from this simple, natural, and effortless experience, giving each of us wangle to the calm, silent level of our mind that is unchangingly there but is often overshadowed considering of the unvarying noise and worriedness on the surface.
Since learning the TM technique
- I have repaired relationships with friends and family members.
- I am kinder to strangers I meet.
- I have been unceasingly inspired to create.
- I have chosen to eat better.
- I have unexplored physical exercise in a way that makes me finger largest without strain.
- TM has been a manna for me in this time of unconfined sorrow and I hope it can be one for you as well.
