OWARD MOZEL ille Beaver Staff oday‘s rapidâ€"fire, highâ€"stress busiâ€" M: helping take the stress out of business curiosity, but somethmg practiced by "ordinary folks." Longâ€"gone is the perception devotees wear beads and live in Himalayan caves. Absent too is WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1994 Page 11 : E40 "TM makes you more dynamlc while maintaining an inner calm," he said. While most humans use only 5% or 10% of their brains, no one would ‘"‘The untapped human potenual of dream of running a business in such a _ the human brain is staggering," says . fashion, said Robins. TM, however, Robins. ‘"‘Nature wouldn‘t give us all changes all that. this surplus capacity." climate is setting the stage for brrow‘s health disaster, says Ron ns, a man who says he knows the to avoid this catastrophe. obins, a speaker from the Toronto pciation of Professionals ticing Transcendental Meditation, mounting stress in the workplace manifest itself as increased psyâ€" bomatic illness, lost productivity, Enteeism, poor communication and problems. If left unchecked, the i1 be considerable. If we don‘t deal with stress ... we be faced by a huge societal probâ€" ," warned Robins, in town Friday the Oakville Chamber of merce‘s Business to Business heon. [f a drug could do what TM does, adds Robins, everyone would be using it. As it is, the the discipline has been making inroads worldwide. Japan, for example, is a world leader in the use of TM. As cultural differences break down, Robins believes people are becoming more accepting of alternaâ€" tive ideas and as such are embracing TM more and more. Now more mainstream than ever, Robins says TM is no longer a fringe the idea it involves undue exertion. "‘TM is the number one antidote to stress available today. A technique for alleviating human stress like no other," maintains Robins. "Effort is completely erroneous to the practice. You don‘t even have to believe it‘s going to work and it works." Without divulging any trade secrets (Robins‘ course costs $1,000 a pop) he explained that TM achieves a "very deep state of silence" in which all parts of the brain become "vastly alive." Once adept, the individual is better able to focus and possesses increased comprehension, lower blood pressure and even assuage headaches and migraines. And yet â€" unlike popuâ€" lar notion â€" TM does not simply make you placid and less aggressive. ‘hain represents worst of ‘new‘ economy (Continued from page 5) China are made by prisoners and exported on the k market. In 1992, Walâ€"Mart directly imported 288 lion pounds of goods from Hong Kong and China, stly jeans and shoes â€" 8,000 times more than it did ore it launched its "Buy American" campaign. Yet O David Glass refuses to investigate the union irges and the company will not adopt a policy to ure that goods imported from China are not manuâ€" tured by forced labour. Glass also dismisses the rildren" producing Walâ€"Mart goods in Bangladesh tories filmed by NBC, as "malnourished adults." Americans are challenging the Walâ€"Mart empire. In dreds of communities, citizens are working through al and state governments to stop the company from ting up. 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