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10 Things Every Meditator Should Know

A TM Primer and Quiz

When’s the best time to meditate? What’s the best position to sit in for TM practice? Is it possible to meditate even in a noisy place? What if I get sleepy? Why is the TM technique so easy compared to other techniques? What support is there after I take the course? I started TM to reduce stress—what’s the deal with “enlightenment”? Find Answers & Take the Quiz ►

Better Health

August 18, 2024

A Key to Success at Work and at Home I 45:28

Nationally recognized medical researcher and professor of medicine, Patty J. Lee, M.D., discusses her remarkable career and rich family life. She talks about the advantages of having a family of regular meditators and the benefits of her TM practice for her success and well-being. Her career led to discoveries that developed new paradigms in understanding immune signaling, an important component of the immune system.

Better Health

July 28, 2024

Creating a Sustainable Fitness Program: Connecting Your Exercise to Your True Nature (Part 2) | 54:43

Suzanne Brue, fitness consultant and best-selling author, is back by popular demand to elaborate on “The 8 Colors of Fitness” for creating an exercise program that we’ll never quit. She also discusses how the expansion of consciousness through the TM program spontaneously leads us to choose evolutionary habits in every area of life. This encore episode originally aired March 5, 2023.

The Arts

July 21, 2024

Bringing Spirituality to Filmmaking | 52:28

Colin Denhart is an award-winning independent filmmaker, TV producer, and songwriter from the Midwest who shares the story of his rise in the film and music industry and how his TM and TM-Sidhi® practice has catapulted his creative success. He also discusses how he has incorporated his interest in spirituality into horror films.

Helping Others

July 14, 2024

An Enlightened Vision for Indigenous Nations | 44:00

Native American Certified TM Teacher Maggie Waukon-Smith talks about the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska’s experiences when the TM technique was introduced. She discusses changes in herself, the elders who participated in diabetes research, and the students in the Quiet Time program at Winnebago High School.

Personal Growth

July 7, 2024

My 17 Years with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | 56:00

Veteran TM teacher John Cowhig talks about how he met TM Founder Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and had the opportunity to join Maharishi’s international staff and become his personal secretary. Mr. Cowhig also shares lovely and profound conversations and experiences he had with Maharishi over the years.

Better Health

June 30, 2024

One Woman’s Journey to Better Health and Inner Peace | 48:34

Teacher and coach Debbie DeMarco Bennett discusses improvements in her mental and physical health, overcoming borderline personality disorder, and coping with multiple sclerosis. She describes the many benefits she has found from her TM practice, including her first-ever experience of inner peace and why she recommends the TM technique to her clients worldwide.

Better Health

December 22, 2016

The 2016 Change-Makers of the Year

A young woman working with inner-city youth. A former Army Command Surgeon breaking the PTSD cycle. Teachers establishing TM at an American medical school. And our Change-Maker of the Year—an educator who’s brought TM to at-risk students for over two decades.

Vedic Knowledge

September 7, 2018

How to Sync Your Day with the Rhythms of Nature | 2:42

Time your sleep, meals, and exercise with nature for maximum health and happiness. Dr. Nancy Lonsdorf, expert in Maharishi AyurVeda®, offers simple, easy-to-follow lifestyle tips from the world’s oldest system of natural healthcare.

Better Health

March 16, 2021

How Is TM Different from Mindfulness, in Practice and Effects?

I heard that a recent study found mindfulness may cause anxiety for some people. I learned the Transcendental Meditation technique to reduce my anxiety,

Vedic Knowledge

May 3, 2019

Welcome to DrTonyNader.com, a Site for the Exploration of Higher States of Consciousness

Explore the knowledge of human potential and evidence-based solutions for the intractable problems facing our world today, on a new website from the director of the worldwide TM organizations, Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., M.A.R.R.

TM in the News

October 3, 2017

His Invention Saves Lives, Wildlife, and Millions of Acres in 115 Countries | 9:04

National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee Don Arney credits TM in the innovation process that led him to invent the famous Bambi Bucket.®

Better Health

September 26, 2016

What Is Stress, and What More Can I Do to Be Rid of It?

Dear Dr. Orme-Johnson, I have 3 questions: What is stress? How does TM get rid of stress? And what else can I do to reduce stress besides meditate?” —SK, New York

Maharishi

August 5, 2016

Where Do Thoughts Come From? | 2:34

Maharishi: It is very amazing that even though all of us have been thinking right from the beginning of our life, rarely we have thought, “Where was the thought before we thought it?”

TM in the News

May 25, 2016

American Institute of Stress: TM Heals PTSD | 7:47

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic at Fort Gordon, Georgia, offers the TM® technique to Service Members and veterans.

Education

May 25, 2016

Success at Aspire Ollin Prep Academy | 3:25

Discover what administrators, teachers, and students report about the TM®-based Quiet Time program at Aspire Ollin Preparatory Academy.

Creativity & the Arts

May 23, 2016

Jerry Seinfeld Talks Transcendental Meditation (TM) with Bob Roth | 60:00

With TM® “it’s like you have a cell phone, and then somebody gives you the charger. And you go, ‘Oh. Now I can get this thing up to a hundred any time I want.’ ” —Jerry Seinfeld

Science & Research

May 23, 2016

Dharma Parenting: Brain Science, TM, and Natural Medicine for Enlightened Child-Rearing | 3:30

Researchers use TM, brain science, and natural medicine to facilitate more enlightened child-rearing, providing tips to identify your child’s unique “body type” for decisions on diet, exercise, and behavior.

My Story

May 23, 2016

Calm Is the New Strong | 1:28

Millennials face nonstop demands, so many practice TM® to deal with stress. “I do it twice a day because it makes me think more clearly,” says singer/songwriter Sky Ferreira. “After I meditate, my mind is clear.”

“If we expose our system to this profound rest every day at the same time, then the cycle of rest and activity and freshness gets established. All effort should be made to be regular in meditation.” —Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Personal Growth

11 Ways to Enjoy Your TM Practice on Vacation

Personal Growth

Welcome to Maharishi Yoga Asanas

Science & Research

20 Tips for TM Twice a Day

Better Health

How Is TM Different from Mindfulness, in Practice and Effects?

Better Health

The Benefits of Regular, Twice-Daily Meditation

Enlightenment Series

Cosmic Consciousness—Living the Fullness of Inner Silence and Bliss 24 Hours a Day

Personal Growth

20 Places to Meditate on the Go

Helping Others

Celebrating 50 Years of Teaching TM in African American Communities, 1969–2019

Creativity & the Arts

Continuous Creation

Artist Kuno Vollet creates iconic objects with fullness of emptiness at their center: “TM influenced my art from the beginning, because you have to be so relaxed, not tense, when you do your work… I get into a deeper and deeper state, and it’s just a flow, where there is no disturbance. The art is just being created.”

My Story

Trekking 1000s of Miles with TM

“After a very demanding and exhausting day, nothing is better than knowing that once I sit down to meditate, I will be reinvigorated and any negatives of the day will melt away,” writes Ted Stekkinger.
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