I'll save mine for the end.
"Study suggests meditation may help prevent PTSD" by Bryan Bender |
Globe Staff, December 02, 2012
The first-of-its-kind training is part of a long-term study to
determine whether regular brief periods of silent, peaceful
consciousness can improve troops’ performance.
So they aren't really interested in peace of mind, they are interested in more efficient soldiers. Ooooo-kay.
Ultimately, researchers
hope the transcendental meditation training might be made available
across all branches of the military to help inoculate troops against
acute post-traumatic stress disorder, which has reached epidemic
proportions and is blamed for a record number of suicides in the ranks.
(Blog editors sadly sighs as his head drops to his chest. Yes, no meditation or thought of ending the lie-based invasions and occupations that lead to the conditions that create the PTSD and resulting suicides in the first place. Vets are killing themselves because they can't live with the horror of what they have seen and done and its juxtapositions with the illusions and lies of the media and culture. In AmeriKa we are called to worship upon the altar of media-promoted militarism)
For an institution that demands that incoming cadets exhibit physical
and mental toughness, meditation training is a radical approach. The
broader military culture had long associated meditation with a leftist,
antiwar philosophy....
I would just like to point out that an antiwar philosophy is not necessarily the sole possession of the "left."
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I often meditate upon the peace of mind the people who have survived the onslaught of the EUSraeli empire's missiles and bombs. I pray they may somehow find some solace.
