“We say that the mind is like the ocean,” Susan Wilbert said of transcendental meditation. “The ocean has an active surface level with waves of activity, and it has a deep quiet level.”
And to get to the deep ocean, transcendental meditation asks its practitioners to focus their minds on a mantra that can be a sound, word or group of words.
“It’s a simple mental technique that allows the mind to settle down,” Wilbert said of transcendental meditation (TM to the faithful). “And because of the intimate connection between the mind and body, when the mind settles down, the body settles down too and gains a state of rest, and with the rest, deep-rooted stresses are released.”
Wilbert has practiced transcendental meditation since the early 1990s and is now a TM instructor in Charlottesville, where she regularly meets with a group of roughly 20 for meditation, she said. (More)
Source: Charlottesville Daily Progress
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