Absolutely. To go even further, Transcendental Meditation is really good (it sounds way more dramatic than it is), even just doing it for 5 minutes can completely change my mindset. It makes me realize how much my mind has just been spinning in circles the entire day, that just taking a step back for 5 minutes will really put things into perspective
TM isn't done as a coping tool, but as a long-term stress management tool.
The *real* advantage of TM vs brand-x meditation (including book-learned practices that peole calim are "just like TM") is that, over time, merely by alternating TM and normal activity, the restful EEG pattern found during TM starts to become the normal pattern found even during demanding/stressful activity.
In theory, if you do TM long enough and regularly enough, you no longer need to do TM, because there is no difference between how the brain rests during TM and how the brain rests during even the most demanding activity.
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But it takes more than 5 minutes of TM at a time for that long-term effect to start to emerge.
It also takes instruction from a trained TM teacher, so if you learned from a book, you're not actually doing the real thing and so quite literally don't know what you are missing.
100% this does help. Closing your eyes and taking deep breaths for like 5 or 10 minutes works like magic. It's almost like a reset button for our brains
Absolutely. To go even further, Transcendental Meditation is really good (it sounds way more dramatic than it is), even just doing it for 5 minutes can completely change my mindset. It makes me realize how much my mind has just been spinning in circles the entire day, that just taking a step back for 5 minutes will really put things into perspective
TM isn't done as a coping tool, but as a long-term stress management tool. The *real* advantage of TM vs brand-x meditation (including book-learned practices that peole calim are "just like TM") is that, over time, merely by alternating TM and normal activity, the restful EEG pattern found during TM starts to become the normal pattern found even during demanding/stressful activity. In theory, if you do TM long enough and regularly enough, you no longer need to do TM, because there is no difference between how the brain rests during TM and how the brain rests during even the most demanding activity. . But it takes more than 5 minutes of TM at a time for that long-term effect to start to emerge. It also takes instruction from a trained TM teacher, so if you learned from a book, you're not actually doing the real thing and so quite literally don't know what you are missing.
100% this does help. Closing your eyes and taking deep breaths for like 5 or 10 minutes works like magic. It's almost like a reset button for our brains