http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20140108/NEWS01/301070036/Doctor-touts-health-benefits-transcendental-meditation?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1Much of his work centers on the benefits of transcendental meditation.
Schneider said TM is an effortless technique for “automatic self-transcending.” It allows your mind to settle inward beyond thought to experience the source of thought — pure awareness. This is the most silent and peaceful level of consciousness and what many who practice TM call your innermost self.
“It takes a technique that you learn in an eight-hour course,” Schneider said. “Once you have the technique, it happens quite easily.”
Schneider said
humans have an “inborn ability” to practice this type of meditation.
“But we have lost this simple and natural technique,” he said.
Schneider said much of his research about the correlation between mind and body were affirmed last June when the
American Heart Association announced that transcendental meditation is the only meditation practice that has shown to lower blood pressure. In addition, AHA reported lower blood pressure through TM is associated with substantially reduced rates of death, heart attack and stroke.
