FOR SALES' SAKE MEDITATE!

To understand how the TM technique is so effective in establishing and maintaining good health we first need to understand the cause of poor health. Disease is lack of ease. Lack of ease creates stress and weakens a person's natural defenses. Stress is the number one killer in the world. Medical professionals claim that stress is the underlying cause of virtually all health problems. In Chapter V, we saw how the TM technique produced a physiological state of rest that is more profound than deep sleep. Rest is directly opposed to stress. Rest eliminates stress. Deep rooted stress accumulated over many years requires deep profound rest to uproot and dissolve the stress.

Physiologists and psychologists agree that the mind and body are interrelated; if you affect the mind you will produce some corresponding effect within the body, and vice versa. A person reads some shocking news and the body chemistry immediately changes. Listen to a sweet melody and the body settles down. Shove somebody and a variety of associated thoughts are immediately triggered. Lie down at the beach and the mind drifts off on some pleasant reverie.

During the TM practice, as the mind experiences thought at increasingly finer levels, mental activity becomes less and less. With decreasing mental activity physical activity automatically becomes less. Finally, when the mind experiences the finest level of thought and transcends thought, to experience that wholeness of life where there is no impulse of activity - which is a common experience during the TM practice - the body gains a very deep profound rest.

Experiments show that this deep profound rest is unlike any state of rest that can be achieved during sleeping, dreaming or waking states of consciousness, and that this deep rest cannot be induced by hypnotic or operant conditioning methods. This unique state of rest resulting from the practice of the TM technique is what restores balance to the body and mind, and enables one to maintain youthful health and vitality free from anxieties, worries and tensions. *Please see Fig. 10 Fig. 11 Fig. 12 Fig. 13

A salesman who practices Transcendental Meditation has renewed vitality after each vigorous day's work, is free from stress and fatigue, and is able to enjoy the evening with family or friends, or perform additional work if desired. Salesmen who practice the TM technique do not cope or live with stress. They live free from stress and fatigue. They enjoy a more productive life. They do not procrastinate.

We have seen in the preceding chapter how the TM technique increases the salesman's ability to think, speak and act efficiently. This brings fulfillment in activity. Stress, misery, suffering and failures in life come from an inability to fulfill desires. When desires are fulfilled stress and fatigue do not accumulate. The salesman leads a healthy, happy, productive life.

Dr. Nancy Lonsdorf (general practice, Washington, D.C.), stated:

My patients notice that their health complaints are exacerbated by stress incurred at work and at home. I tell them that the TM technique is the most effective, scientifically validated procedure to reduce stress and promote health. Of all the things they can do for their health, this has the most far-reaching, wide range of benefits. Hundreds of my patients have learned the technique - with excellent results. Every company should provide the TM program to their employees to reduce stress, help prevent disease, and promote good health.

And, Hari Sharma, M.D. FRCPC, Professor Emeritus, Former Director of Cancer Prevention and Natural Products Research, Department of Phisiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, stated:

In many published research studies, the Transcendental Meditation technique has been shown to be the most effective technique for reducing stress and rebalancing the biochemicals in the body to produce improved physical and mental health. This has been corroborated by research showing that practicing of the TM technique reduces health care utilization by 50%. Because of the benefits of the TM program for prevention of disease, I recommend that it be covered by all health-care providers. In that way we can prevent forthcoming disorders that are extremely costly - not only financially, but also in terms of human pain and suffering.

If there were ever a new scientific discovery that could be acclaimed as the magic elixir of life, the TM technique deserves that distinction. The vast amount of empirical and scientific evidence supporting the role of the TM technique in improving and maintaining good physical, mental and emotional health cannot be ignored.

(*NOTE: Figs. appearing in this online book may vary from those in the paperback version. These Figs. are links to the official www.tm.org website.)