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TM is not an acquired skill that you will get “better” at after weeks or months of practice. You master it in a few hours over a few days, and then it’s yours for the rest of your life. As I mentioned earlier, TM is practiced for twenty minutes, twice a day, sitting up comfortably in a chair (or on your bed or wherever you can sit up comfortably), with your eyes closed. It can be practiced in the privacy of your home but can be done just as easily on a train or airplane or in a car (as long as someone else is driving!). It is a silent technique, so you are not going to disturb anyone while you meditate. If you feel an itch, by all means scratch it. I once taught a record company executive, and when I said he could move during his meditation, his eyes actually welled up with tears of relief. For decades, he had worked hard trying to master meditation techniques that required concentration and control of the mind and body. He always felt like a failure if he had too many thoughts or needed to scratch an itch or move his leg to get more comfortable. Not only that, but should you feel sleepy at any time during the meditation, you don’t need to fight it. It’s fine. If you do fall asleep because you’re tired, it will be usually for a minute or two, and then you’ll awaken rested and refreshed and continue with your practice. It just means your body needed the extra deep rest. Such moments are part of the meditation.
Strength in Stillness
Bob Roth
As this book will argue, sugar appears to be a substance that causes pleasure with a price that is difficult to discern immediately and paid in full only years or decades later. With no visible, directly noticeable consequences, as Mintz says, questions of “long-term nutritive or medical consequences went unasked and unanswered.” Most of us today will never know if we suffer even subtle withdrawal symptoms from sugar, because we’ll never go long enough without sugar to find out.
The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes
In 1978 I began teaching artists how to “unblock” and “get back on their feet” after a creative injury. I shared with them the tools I had learned through my own creative practice. I kept it all as easy and gentle as I could. “Remember, there is a creative energy that wants to express itself through you”;
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
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