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The BRI at MUM is starting to go mainstream it seems.

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Neuroimaging Laboratory RADIOLOGY TODAY August 4th, 2003 Imaging CAM: Scientific Investigations
Indicate Efficacy of Alternative Medicine By Dan Harvey [...] TM and Pain Reaction Two researchers
who have methodically pioneered the research and systematically scouted the terrain are David Orme-
Johnson, Ph.D, adjunct faculty of the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi
University of Management and Zang Hee Cho, Ph.D., professor of

radiological

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sciences and of psychiatry and human behavior at the Functional Brain Imaging Laboratory at the
University of California at Irvine. [...] Appropriately enough, in his research, Cho, who invented
positron emission tomography (PET), employed PET in his research to measure changes in the brain's
metabolism. The technology revealed that areas of the brain became activated or deactivated
through the stimulation of certain acupuncture points, or acupoints. As a result, he concluded
that acupuncture, by stimulating brain regulating mechanisms, or homeostatic mechanisms, could

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used to treat different diseases. [...] Heated Reactions Going into the study, Cho and Orme-
Johnson speculated that the brain response to stress in the long-term TM practitioners would be
less than in non-practitioner controls. "Our working hypothesis is that long-term TM practice
develops inner stability and lower levels of anxiety, so that the reaction to pain is not
amplified by subsequent distress reactions," says Orme-Johnson. "This has been shown independently
by numerous studies and meta-analyses."

"[..]The researchers concluded that these first results showed that both the brain and heart
responded less to pain stimulation in the TM group than in control group. "The fMRI images show less
activity in the brain of meditators in the pain stimulation than in the control subjects," said Orme-
Johnson. "We are just at the very preliminary phases of the study, but initially we are seeing much
less of a reaction."[..]

Thus, persons with less reaction to pain stress are by their nature psychologically attracted to
TM.....🙂 We all like to do what we can easily do best...🙂

Pedantus said:

Thus, persons with less reaction to pain stress are by their nature psychologically attracted
to TM.....🙂 We all like to do what we can easily do best...🙂

A wise insight.

It is well known that people have large variances in reaction to pain. People who have a lot of pain
may just be that way. Trying to pigeon hole or make people into one homogeneous glob is de-
humanizing.
(i.e. if you practice TM you will be just (as good) like us. In this case it translates as "strong
feelings to pain bad", "less response to pain good".)

Wade

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Pedantus said:

Thus, persons with less reaction to pain stress are by their nature
psychologically attracted to TM.....🙂 We all like to do what we can

easily

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do best...🙂

A wise insight.

It is well known that people have large variances in reaction to pain. People who have a lot of
pain may just be that way. Trying to pigeon hole or make people into one homogeneous glob is de-
humanizing.
(i.e. if you practice TM you will be just (as good) like us. In this case it translates as "strong
feelings to pain bad", "less response to pain good".)

Inappropriate response to pain bad.