Word: tm
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...last night, the Cambridge City Council heard a proposal for a new step which advocates said would make the area a "center of world peace"--a city-wide program of collective transcendental meditation or TM...
Followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the TM movement's founder, told the council that if a group comprising the square root of 1 percent of a city's population mediate together, the rate of crime, accidents and sickness will decrease, and "an ideal quality of city, state and national life" will be created...
Supported by Herreshoff's argument that the Aussie keel fins give the boat added draft, or depth, upwind, thus making it a 12.5-meter or 12.8-meter yacht in those conditions, the N.Y.Y.C. asked the Measurement (TM) Committee to reconsider its earlier O.K. Last week the I.Y.R.U. officials responded with a unanimous no. But that did not end the matter...
...guru of therapeutic relaxation is Cardiologist Benson. Back in 1968 he was persuaded by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation to study the effects of the technique on the body. To his surprise, Benson found that TM could elicit dramatic physiological changes, including decreased heart rate, lower blood pressure and reduced oxygen consumption. Meditation, says Benson, sets off "a built-in mechanism that is the opposite of the fight-or-flight response." Practiced ten to 20 minutes once or twice daily, it has been shown, by Benson and others, to produce a lasting reduction in blood pressure and other stress-related symptoms...
...TM is only one of several techniques that can be used to produce what Benson has termed the "relaxation response." The effect can be achieved just by following four simple steps: assume a comfortable position, close your eyes, concentrate on a single word, sound or phrase, and cast off all other thoughts. Instead of using the traditional mantra of TM, Benson's patients are encouraged to select a sound or image that appeals to them personally. One of his Jewish patients focuses on the word shalom; a Greek chants "Kyrie eleison " (Lord have mercy upon us); a Catholic recites...