Transcendental Meditation: A Quick Overview

From Our times. we are witness to the scientific expansion of man's mind and extension of his physical presence to new realms from the atomic nucleus to the moon, planets and stars. Science has enable man to expand his influence in outward directions and given him command over certain laws of nature. But within himself, man and society based with problems resulting from continual mistakes and continue to suffer.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has formulates a new science which is termed as the science of Creative Intelligence, also known as the science of Consciousness in which the modern science and technology finds its source.  He also provided an effective, yet simple, easy to learn and effort less technique to enable us to come out of the state o suffering and to experience the full creative potential of the higher consciousness, which is known as Transcendental Meditation(TM).

The Transcendental Meditation technique is a very simple, natural and effortless way of letting your mind settle down into an extremely calm and wise state of rest. This Transcendental Meditation enables the mind to experience finer and finer levels of thinking process to reach the source of thoughts- pure intelligence, the Transcendental Consciousness. Therefore TM is the mental process by which we reach the state of Transcendental Consciousness in order to experience within ourselves the field of infinite source of energy, intelligence and creativity.

Transcendental Meditation Techniques

TM techniques is the procedure for generating a state of least excitation of Consciousness, mind, emotions and body. This state 'Pure Consciousness' or 'Transcendental Meditation ' is identified as the 4th state of consciousness and the origin of the structure and properties of walking, sleeping and dreaming. This is the source of the creative process, a state of silent awareness devoid of any thought process which is responsible for the structure of the thoughts process, matter, energy and the laws which governs physical events.

Transcendental Meditation can be learnt and practices by every individual. People of all professions such as teachers, engineers, students, scientists, army, police, bankers, businessman, managers or even other sectors peoples are practicing TM in the world.

TM Process

TM is the systematic procedure of turning the attention inwards towards the subtler level of thoughts until the mind transcends the experience of the subtlest state of thoughts and arrive at the source of the thoughts. This expand the conscious mind and at the same time brings it in contact with the creative intelligence that gives rises to every thought.

What Happens During Transcendental Meditation

During Transcendental Meditation the mind settles down to a silent, yet fully awake, state of awareness -- pure consciousness. At the same time the body gains a unique and profound state of rest and relaxation.

To understand the experience of the mind and body settling down during Transcendental Meditation, we'll take two common occurrences:

Excited mind: It's Friday, 2:00 p.m. It's been a busy day and a long week. You're late for an appointment. You race to your car only to realize that you've forgotten your keys. You find your keys, and then you have to battle traffic and road construction before finally making it to your appointment -- only to discover that you've left behind some important papers. Your mind is speeding, and your heart is pounding.

Settled mind: It's Sunday afternoon and you're heading home from a long weekend vacation, rested and refreshed. You feel contented, relaxed, happy. Your mind is alert, calm, clear. You begin to think of new ways to make things better at work and at home --good, practical ideas. Both of these experiences -- of greater and of lesser excitation of mind and body -- are already very familiar to us.

What Transcendental Meditation do?

Transcendental Meditation is a systematic technique that allows mental activity to settle down to a silent state of awareness where the mind is calm, collected, yet fully expanded, fully awake. This state is the simplest form of human awareness. It is pure consciousness, a state of "self-referral" awareness open only to itself -- open to its own full potential. And as we'll see in the next chapter, it is the unified field of natural law, which modern physics describes as the source of the infinite creativity and intelligence of nature.

Transcendental Meditation allows the mind to experience pure consciousness easily, effortlessly, and enjoyably. At the same time, extensive scientific research has shown that while the mind settles down during Transcendental Meditation, the body gains a state of profound rest and relaxation that is far deeper than any other technique of meditation or relaxation produces.

Scientific research on TM

More than 1000 independent scientific researchs have been conducted at numerious institute including Harvard Medical School,  Cornell University, Stanford University etc. These studies have been published in  world's leading scientific journals like science, nature, hypertension etc. Based on these research the key findings on TM along with its benefits are listed below:

Improved Mental Potential

It is estimated that we use only 5 to 10% of our mental potential. During Tm we come in to direct contact with the rest of the  unused potential. By awakening the dormant reserves of our brain, Tm improves intuition and make thinking and planning more effective.
According to the various researches TM has improves in decision making, increased creativity and intelligence, improved memory, broadened comprehension along with increased ability to focus, improves concentration , job satisfaction and perfection.