#39: The Science of Transcendental Meditation (TM) - Bob Roth
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
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How Does Transcendental Meditation Differentiate From Concentration Based Meditation?
In your book, strength and stillness, you describe theres these three overarching systems of meditation. A focused attention, which for a lot of people would involve paying attention really closely to the sensations of breath at their nose,. And then there's open maundering, where you're just kind of letting the attention become aware of whateversse sensations or thoughts or feelings are coming in each moment. But then there's this third system called which you call automatic self transcending. So how does this differ? I guess i'm struggling to understand the difference between a concentration based practice, where you’re really focused on something... How is that different from focussing really hard on the
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