Comments on: stuff I’m not paid to endorse: transcendental meditation

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:56:26 +0000

hello to “wrong mantra” peeps,
I took the AOL (art of living) meditation course, and had mantra problems.
same deal, went to teacher, wanted a different mantra, and “no can do” , that was my mantra… blah blah blah..
so good to read I am not alone with that.

By: are you ready to meditate? | Sarah Wilson

are you ready to meditate? | Sarah Wilson — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:31:09 +0000

[...] For years I flim-flammed around trying different techniques. They gave me the shits. I never “got” it. I then bit a bullet and tried TM or Vedic meditation. I’ve talked about the TM style before here and here. [...]

By: my little black book of natural therapies | Sarah Wilson

my little black book of natural therapies | Sarah Wilson — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:45:14 +0000

[...] I practice the vedic style (with a mantra, 20 minutes twice a day). I’ve blogged about it here. My teacher Tim can be found [...]

By: Anonymous22

Anonymous22 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:33:11 +0000

My mantra has also felt wrong from the very second I got it, as I experienced horrible anxiety as soon as I tried to transcend. It ruined my whole day. I continued to experience anxiety with this mantra every time I meditated. At first I thought maybe I was doing it wrong, but even though I did the 3 minutes no thinking, mantra comes in, another 3 minutes afterwards no thinking, it still left me feeling anxious. It also seems to be picked by my aged, as I looked it up, and sure enough there it is for my age group! I have little faith in TM now, at least I would like them to admit that perhaps its not for everyone, rather than blaming the individual. I don’t think its releasing stress/anxiety, I think its causing more of it.

By: Delaine Kalis

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By: wayne

wayne — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:59:16 +0000

TM does good for some people but its not for everyone, for me it left me cold. I started it but did not complete the course. Unfortunately i educated myself better about it after i had committed. It is big business and has smart marketing. I suggest you educate yourself on not only the benefits of it but also what people have said against it. Personally i believe all meditation knowledge should be free and open to the world as in vipassana budhist meditation which uses breath instead of a mantra. And there are many other meditations – its all about whether you want to do it – rather than having the big $$ incentive to do it.
If youre interested this is my story..
Before i did a TM course i had been told and read of all the benefits of it. I would get a mantra that would be personal to me, would be mine and that i would keep to myself. As i understood, it would be special, ‘unique’. So i paid my big bucks, went along, and got my mantra which was just seemingly chosen from thin air not a question was asked about me, about who i was to maybe match a mantra to me. I found this strange. Straight away i thought what an odd sounding word, a word that just didn’t ring with me. I even mentioned this to the teacher and put it if words sounded like colours this word was yellow, one of my least favourite colours. So I get home and in the evening i repeat this word mantra in my head over and over expecting it to be this key to moving deeper, transcending, but it slowly dawns on me that i am repeating something that feels like saying say ‘lollypop’ or “bippity boo” over and over. It just left me cold, hollow. After time i started feeling ‘this is the wrong mantra’, and this ironically started feeling like my mantra. It was not helping me journey deep, be relaxed. This mantra irked me, annoyed me. I sing and play guitar for 30 years and the sound of this word just did not resonate with me at all. After half an hour of trying i found myself looking up on the web ‘transcendental meditation wrong mantra’ which led me to numerous interesting accounts on TM. The thing is your mantra is found via what age you are and are a list of Maharishi ‘s ‘personal gods’. Yes if i were maybe 2 years younger i could get a different mantra. This seems crazy to me. Yet you are told whatever mantra you get is the right mantra. So even if you get one aged 16 you will still keep it even if you are 40. So overall for me i couldnt get past this. When i tried to tell my teacher of this she said i had the right mantra that negative stuff was happening because of stress in my life, food i ate, pot i had smoked years before. So it became an impasse that i could not move forward with. All this sounds very fickle and it is because if i had been a different age and got a mantra that felt right to me maybe i’d still be doing it. The thing is the mantra problem initiated me educating myself further on TM; what it is, who started it, the marketing behind it. I personally in the end felt deceived and taking the expense on the chin (ouch) let it go – though i am in the process of trying to get some compensation for the fact i did not finish the course. So good luck but

By: If You Can’t Say Anything Nice, Don’t Say Anything At All… | The Inspiring Bee

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:19:19 +0000

[...] This post in particular is about TM or transcendental meditation.*Especially for those on the road to better meditating. [...]

By: Anthony Porter

Anthony Porter — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:29:02 +0000

I started TM when I was at uni and have carried it with me since, or more so, it has carried me. Though I was getting enough sleep at uni, my brain and body was processing and reliving day while I was sleeping. TM was the circuit breaker and still is, that gives me a total break. If you are rock bottom with your finances and cannot afford the cost of Tim’s course, there are some good books freely available in libraries, or for a small cost at good bookshop.

By: are we ready? | Sarah Wilson

are we ready? | Sarah Wilson — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:35:47 +0000

[...] reminds me of something that Tim Brown my meditation teacher says: “Let’s see”. He proffers this as the answer to those times when [...]

By: Claire

Claire — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:43:03 +0000

I thought I’d jump on here to add something to this post – although an old one.
After reading your blog Sarah about TM/TIm Brown I decided to commit to it this year. Having said that I just couldn’t find $1100 to spare without causing an issue. As life turns out I was delivered an alternative option.

Her name is Carolyne Gowen. She practices and teaches a style pretty much EXACTLY the same as TM called Primordial Sound Meditation – developed by Deepak Chopra inconjunction with vedic masters in India. Carolyne is so warm, calm and real. You don’t get that ‘untouchable/unreal’ sense from her, you feel like she is an exceptional human being but someone that you can easily relate to and understand.

Similar to TM you work through a 4 class course where you are issued your personal Mantra based on the universal sound vibration at the time/day of your birth.

It is considerably cheaper – so because of that I thought I’d share. I’m in no way taking away from Tim Brown/TM and I would’ve done that in heart beat if I could but money is money.

If anyone is keen, please go to http://stillyourmind.com.au

I highly recommend her and the course!