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Has anyone tried Transcendental Meditation to try and help ASD anxiety and distress?

DaveAsperg

I’m looking at what can help my distress and am attending a TM event, but suspicious of its costs and limitations. I can’t find any good research evidence for its use in ASD people over the age of 30. Since I know antidepressants are poorly effective in us, I do wonder about TM especially as it is quite expensive  £590 for 4 x 2 hour sessions. Anyone has any experience of it.  Positive or negative?

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  • I have looked into this myself as attended a free introduction to TM where they talked about the benefits etc. It sounded too good to be true.

    I did my research. Info about what TM actually is, is hard to come by on the internet. I found a guy on youtube (who, as it turns out is a bit of a covid nutcase) but his video about TM confirmed i didnt need to pay.

    Aidie is right. You choose your own meaningless mantra and repeat for 20-30 minutes twice a day. If your mind wanders, bring it back to the mantra.

    I managed 3 days of it off my own back. I know if I had paid the money it would definitely make me do it every day, just because I had paid.

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