how to meditate meditation
how to meditate meditation
Is meditation good or bad? I have seen so many studies on it being positive, and many on it being negative?
I’ve found multiple negative consequences due to Transcendental Meditation and am afraid to learn to meditate now. For my question, I’m not just looking for short-term conclusions, but also long-term practice results. Lastly, if meditation is beneficial, please include a link or explanation in order to learn how to meditate, and which meditations are bad.
For those that asked, here’s a list of abstracts (summaries) to studies that have found negative effects with meditation. However, they seem to all revolve around Transcendental Meditation and the articles that use other meditators don’t specify which types of meditation and have other scientific errors…like only studying 6 people, which gives a small pool of statistically unreliable results
http://www.behind-the-tm-facade.org/transcendental_meditation-harmful-abstracts.htm
Hi Keenan, Good question. There are mountains of good solid scientific research on TM. There are several hundred studies and they have been published in more than 200 major scientific journals. http://www.mum.edu/tm_research/journals.html This means they were performed rigorously with good controls and the results are real. As you have mentioned the studies at the behind-the-TM-facade web site use only a small sampling and have not been published in major science journals and are therefore not reliable. Here is a good link for research on TM: http://www.mum.edu/tm_research/. There is also published research that compares TM with other meditation techniques and shows that TM came out as the best. http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/Research/ComparisonofTechniques/index.cfm I hope this info is helpful for you. StarGazer
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