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We have seen
that the mind and body are
intimately connected: the
improved condition of one brings
about the improved condition of
the
other.
In the same way, a
healthier, happier individual
improves the quality
of his environment, and a better
environment enriches the
individual.
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Behaviour arises as a means to
fulfil one’s needs; it is
necessary
that behaviour meets with
success. Behaviour depends upon
the ability to
evaluate, which depends upon the
ability to appreciate, which
depends upon
the quality of the mind and
heart.
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Transcendental Meditation
spontaneously eliminates the
most basic
cause of all stress and strain,
allowing the natural flow of
more tender
qualities of heart and mind.
Everyone lives his
life through the cycles of
routine work—whether he
is a student, a working adult,
or retired—the whole population
is living
life through routine work, and
routine work in daily life does
not provide
an opportunity for the full
expression of Creative
Intelligence.
This lack of
opportunity to display
creativity causes frustration
and
becomes the basis of all
antisocial behaviour.
Transcendental
Meditation helps the awareness
to transcend boundaries
and go beyond the field of
limitations.
This is how
Transcendental
Meditation—providing the
opportunity to
create unboundedness, infinity,
eternity—satisfies the inner
creativity
and inner genius of life by
providing an opportunity for the
full
expression of Creative
Intelligence.
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Ideal behaviour is based on the
principle of giving. When two
people meet with the intention
of receiving, both wait to
receive—nobody
gives and no one receives.
In
order to give,
one must possess. One can give
only from what one
has. One radiates what one is,
just as a fully lit bulb
radiates maximum
light.
Transcendental
Meditation develops Bliss
Consciousness—unbounded
awareness—and provides the
ground for maximum giving.
Transcendental
Meditation fills the cup of life
to overflowing. On this
basis behaviour thrives and
brings waves of increasing
joyfulness.
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Behaviour
unites. The quality of the union
or relationship depends
upon the quality of those who
are coming together.
Transcendental
Meditation improves the quality
of life of the
individual and develops ideal
social behaviour.
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Behaviour
is
the expression of the inner
quality of life, the inner
quality of consciousness.
Acting from the
level of unbounded awareness,
developed through
Transcendental Meditation,
harmony dominates in our
behaviour.
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Behaviour
is
the expression of love. Love is
the impulse of
life.
Love
arises more
from a full heart and spreads
softness and all good in
our surroundings.
Scientific research
has shown that those qualities
of life which
naturally enrich behaviour and
make life more fruitful in every
way
develop through the regular
practice of Transcendental
Meditation.
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Behaviour
is
reciprocal. The universe reacts
to individual action:
‘As you sow, so shall you reap.’
Through every
thought, word, and action, we
are producing influences
that affect our surroundings.
Physics explains
that everything in the universe
is constantly
influencing every other thing.
Nothing exists in isolation.
It is everyone’s
responsibility to behave in such
a way that one’s
behaviour produces a
life-supporting influence for
all.
Development of the
tender qualities of life are the
prerequisite to
life-supporting behaviour.
That is why ideal
behaviour requires the
development of higher states
of consciousness through the
development of Pure
Consciousness, which is
easily achieved through the
practice of Transcendental
Meditation.
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Statistical
meta-analysis
of all
available
research (42
independent
outcomes)
indicated
that the
effect of
Maharishi’s
Transcendental
Meditation
Programme on
increasing
self-actualization
is much
greater than
that of
other forms
of
meditation
or
relaxation.
Self-actualization
refers to
realizing
more of
one’s inner
potential,
expressed in
every area
of life:
integration
and
stability of
personality,
self-regard,
emotional
maturity,
capacity for
warm
interpersonal
relationships,
and
adaptive
response to
challenges.
Reference:
Journal
of
Social
Behavior
and
Personality
6(5) (1991):
189–248.
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Subjects
practising
the
Transcendental
Meditation
Programme,
measured
once prior
to beginning
the
technique
and again
two months
later,
showed
significant
positive
improvements
in
personality
traits,
including
spontaneity,
self-regard,
and
self-acceptance,
when
compared to
a matched
control
group.
Reference:
Journal
of
Counseling
Psychology
20 (1973):
565–566; and
19 (1972):
184–187;
Perceptual
and
Motor
Skills
39 (1974):
623–628.
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Those
practising
the
Transcendental
Meditation
Programme,
and those
practising
the TM-Sidhi
Programme,
showed
higher—more
principled—levels
of moral
reasoning on
a
standardized
test in
comparison
to those who
had not yet
learnt the
Transcendental
Meditation
Programme.
Reference:
‘Kohlberg
Stage 7,
Natural Law,
and the
Transcendental
Meditation
and TM-Sidhi
Programme’.
Paper
presented at
the
International
Symposium on
Moral
Education,
University
of Fribourg,
Switzerland,
3
September
1982;
Scientific
Research
on
Maharishi’s
Transcendental
Meditation
and
TM-Sidhi
Programme—Collected
Papers,
Volume 3
(1990):
2034–2037.
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In two
companies
that
introduced
Maharishi’s
Transcendental
Meditation
Programme,
managers and
employees
who
regularly
practised
Transcendental
Meditation
for two
months
improved
significantly
on
efficiency
and
productivity,
job
satisfaction,
and personal
relationships,
in
comparison
to control
subjects
with similar
jobs in
these
companies.
Reference:
Academy
of
Management
Journal
17 (1974):
362–368.
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University
students who
were practising
Maharishi’s
Transcendental
Meditation
Technique
reported higher
levels of
respect for
traditional
cultural and
religious values
in
comparison to
non-meditating
students at two
control
universities.
These students
practising
Transcendental
Meditation also
showed
higher levels of
orientation
towards
scientific
thinking.
Reference:
Dissertation
Abstracts
International
38(2) (1977):
649A.
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Subjects who
practise
Maharishi’s
Transcendental
Meditation
Programme show
significant
reductions in
all categories
of substance
abuse as
compared to
controls.
Reference:
International
Journal of
the
Addictions
12(6) (1977):
729–754, and
26(3) (1991):
293–325.
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