Quiet Time

A time to be alone, all by yourself! It is so precious, I wouldn't miss it for anything in the world!

And Transcendental Meditation (TM) is the best thing that ever happened to me, to have the time for myself, just me and me alone! I don't have to go far, to the mountains, to the seas, away from the noise of the city, just to have the time for myself, by myself. I don't have to wait till I have my next long vacation to do it. I can do it everyday. And I do! I can just be at home, or somewhere I can sit down comfortably, and do it. TM is great. It's the best gift I've given myself and the best gift I can give to someone. That's why I talk, I blog, about it a lot. It's a big part of my life since I learned it in the 80's. And I love sharing the knowledge.

Someday you might be interested in it and may want to talk more about it. I'll be there to share.

Try TM, it works.

TM Magazine, Issue 6

http://issue6.tmmagazine.org/

Maharishi Videos

http://www.mum.edu/video_maharishi.html

Happy Valentine's Day!

"Love is the supreme blessing of life; love as love is universal. Personal love is concentrated universal love. " - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

One of the sweetest words about LOVE I've heard. You should hear his audio tape.

What is Yagya Again?

A few posts below, I linked an article on yagya from a religious point of view. Here's a scientific explanation of yagya by Dr. John Hagelin, "Yagya is a technology of sound. It employs the chemistry of sound, the scientific fact that through sound, you can change anything into anything." - great videos! Watch them.

Related topics you might be interested in:

http://www.maharishinationalyagya.org/videos.html#video=fg5bF6E9vaA

http://www.maharishinationalyagya.org/

Maharishi Says,

"Keep your desire turning back within and be patient.
Allow the fulfilment to come to you. Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world, pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there. It may take a little self-discipline, be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after your needs of life - it is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them.
In this way life proceeds more naturally, effortlessly.
Life is here to enjoy." 

Check This Out!

Dr. Robert Herron, author of the new study Over 5 years, the TM groups’s physician expenses decreased by 28% (view enlarged chart) Michael P. O’Donnell

Study Shows Medical Costs Decrease 28 Percent Over Five-Year Period Former faculty researcher Robert Herron published a new study in the current issue of The American Journal of Health Promotion. His study found that people with consistently high health care costs experienced a 28 percent cumulative decrease in physician fees after an average of five years’ practice of the Transcendental Meditation® technique compared with their baseline. “This article has major policy significance for saving Medicare and Medicaid without cutting benefits or raising taxes,” Dr. Herron said. “Now it may be possible to rescue Medicare and Medicaid by adding coverage for learning the Transcendental Meditation technique.” Dr. Herron compared the changes in physician costs for 142 Transcendental Meditation practitioners with 142 non-practitioners over five years in Quebec, Canada. The subjects in the control group were selected to match the profiles of the Transcendental Meditation technique group according to age, sex, and region. Data was provided by the Quebec Health Insurance Agency, the only health insurance provider in the province of Quebec. “This study addresses an important issue that will be of interest to our readers,” said Michael P. O’Donnell, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Health Promotion. “The manuscript is well organized and clearly written.” This study’s findings were similar to earlier ones. In a previous Canadian study, the medical expenses of the Transcendental Meditation technique group were 5 to 13 percent lower than controls each year for six consecutive years. In addition, in a sample of American health insurance enrollees, the Transcendental Meditation technique participants had reduced rates of illness in all disease categories. An 11-year study found that subjects age 45 and over who practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique had 88 percent fewer hospital days compared with the control group. Their medical expenditures were 60 percent below the norm. Dr. Herron is the Director of the Center for Health Systems Analysis in Fairfield, Iowa and author of New Knowledge for New Results: A Comprehensive Strategy for Reducing Skyrocketing Medical Costs. Dr. Herron was the first to describe the impact of the Transcendental Meditation technique on health care costs as a PhD student at MUM. As an independent researcher and consultant, he has conducted extensive research on how to improve medical system effectiveness and reduce national and corporate medical expenditures.

Maharishi Says,

"Speak Well of Others

Speaking ill of others means first transplant the wrong of his heart in our heart, transplant the wrong of his mind to our mind, and then let that plant grow into a tree until it comes out. Many-fold it comes out. The whole process is dragging to evolution. It drags us down.

If you have not spoken out any wrong of anyone, that means you don’t have any wrong in your heart. This is a measure. We never think ill of others, because if someone has done wrong, why should we bring it in our heart and make our heart impure? It’s not necessary. But if our heart is already impure, it will be picking its like from here and there and strengthening its quality.

There is that proverb: “Birds of the same feather flock together.” If there is filth deposited in the heart, then it will collect more filth from here. Birds of the same feather flock together. And then whatever has been flocked together, it will start to fly out.

One can’t say, “Oh, how can that man behave like that, when he is a meditator?” That means we don’t know how much good has increased in him. We didn’t see him three years ago. There is always an improvement.

We never think anything negative of anyone, particularly because once we are meditating, our thought force is increasing very greatly. And if with this increased thought force we think low of someone, we are pushing him down to be that low.

Never do we think any wrong thoughts of others, nor do we speak them out. Never.

It’s not necessary to use our time and energy of thinking and speaking on something that does not improve our life, that does not help us to grow. It’s not worthwhile.

So spend your energy and get joy, happiness, evolution, more ability to enjoy, more ability to create. In this field this is how we spend our energy and time."

Maharishi

Thank you, Maharishi.

NEWS : 'Estate of Mind': - The UK's Meditating Village

http://www.t-m.org.uk/meditation-news/2011/08/estate-of-mind-the-uks-meditating-village/

A Gentle Reminder

"Take it as it comes." - Maharishi ( from this weekend's videos)

DEEP REST

Just got back from the mountains up north, again for a much-needed R&R! Deeper than just beauty rest, it's deep deep rest and silence for both body & soul. What a wonderful Labor Day Weekend! "Soulful", in the truest sense of the word.

Thank you, Maharishi.

Jai Guru Dev.

"Quote of the Day"

"Divine Love, Pure Love finds its delight and its satisfaction in itself. There is no need for it to be received and to be appreciated nor to be shared--It loves for the sake of loving; even as a flower that blooms. To feel this love within oneself is to possess immutable happiness." -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

On Eclipses

People are talking about this rare lunar eclipse tonight which will occur again in 82 years. Maharishi used to say, "Stay indoors, and be on the Self, during eclipses."

Maharishi Says,

"Life expresses itself through love. The stream of life is a wave on the ocean of love, and life is expressed in the waves of love, and the ocean of love flows in the waves of life. What a comfort love brings to the heart."

(From: 'Love and God') - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Says,

"See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery."

"There is time for everything in life."

How timely to find both one after the other! So calming, so reassuring!... Thank you, Maharishi.

Jai Guru Dev.

Post Script to 'Thought for the Day'

Remember my post on Thought for the Day (November 11) just a few days back on Starbucks' - STORIES ARE GIFTS. SHARE. This is one of those beautiful stories I love to share, one of the most precious gifts I can give ! Here it is again -

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"Quote of the Day"

There's a great quote in the Gita, (the Scripture of the Bhagavadgita)..... "Until a seeker of truth gets tired of his own way..... knowledge never comes..." His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

MAHARISHI VIDEOS

I'm on FB right now looking at MAHARISHI VIDEOS and saw some quotes from him, like this one here that I particularly need at the moment, so I thought I'd copy it here to remind myself -

'However intense darkness may be, the lighting of the light is completely, silently enough to do away with whatever intense darkness was there. That is my strength.' - Maharishi

I saw more that I like to share with you so just keep on reading. Enjoy.

"Quote of the Day"

"Don't desire anything less than the supreme - for yourself individually and for the whole mankind. Because you will get what you desire." - Maharishi