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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 ►

Videos

August 30, 2020

Step into Your Strongest Self | 54:28

Heathere Evans, award-winning certified coach, consultant, and “Washington PR Woman of the Year,” has a revolutionary approach to leadership development to help clients be more empowered, successful, and inspired. She discusses how the TM technique helps us step into our strongest selves in any situation.

Business Success

August 23, 2020

Be an Ideal Leader in Your Professional and Personal Life | 49:00

David Bishop, was president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and MGM Home Entertainment. An inductee of Variety’s Hall of Fame, he now develops leaders at Netflix, Amazon, and Google as president of The David Bishop Group. A 40-year TM practitioner, he shares how to grow one’s leadership qualities.

Better Health

August 16, 2020

TM for the Whole Family | 50:37

Yolanda Lewis-Ragland, M.D., pediatrician at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., and Asst. Prof. of Pediatrics at George Washington University, works with United Way, UNICEF, and U.S. agencies on public health initiatives. She discusses how the TM technique benefits families, communities, and our changing world.

Better Health

August 9, 2020

How TM Improves Creativity and Cognitive Functioning and Develops Higher States of Consciousness | 53:44

David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D., an expert in the scientific study of meditation, has published 100+ studies in major research journals on TM practice, health, and human development. He explains the insights of modern science over 50 years on how TM® brings holistic personal development for a more creative, healthy, and fulfilling life.

August 7, 2020

What Saved My Sanity

Christian Dior executive Donna Hauser writes, “If I could think of one way to describe my initial encounter with the TM technique, it was a peace and a ‘slowing down’ that I never thought I could allow myself. Who has time to add one more task to an already chaotic life? We all do. And we must. By starting TM, I allowed and gave myself room to breathe.”

Individual & Society

August 7, 2020

An Antidote to Violence: How the TM Program Helps to Bring Peace and Heal Divisions

Significant scientific research shows the positive influence of the TM technique on the health and well-being of individuals. Is there evidence that large numbers practicing the TM program could also reduce societal stress and violence? Yes, concludes an exciting new book that examines 20 peer-reviewed studies showing how the TM program can decrease collective stress.

Education

September 7, 2018

David Lynch Foundation Awarded Highest 4-Star Rating

The David Lynch FoundationSM (DLF) has taught the TM technique to one million at-risk individuals worldwide. Charity Navigator, a leading evaluator of nonprofits, awarded DLF its highest possible rating, for financial health, program growth, accountability, and transparency.

Videos

April 12, 2017

Q&A with Dr. John Hagelin: Influence at a Distance—Creating Peace from the Quantum Level | 34:07

On March 25, 2018, about 55,000 participants in the second Global TM Group Meditation listened to Dr. Hagelin, quantum physicist and President of Maharishi International University, as he explained how coherence in collective consciousness helps create world peace.

TM in the News

November 10, 2016

New Study: Inmates Reduce Trauma, Reawaken Humanity

A randomized trial finds the TM technique is transformative for prisoners. “Inmates learn Transcendental Meditation and become more human after a long and isolating period of becoming less human,” says co-author Dr. Tom O’Connor.

Creativity & the Arts

December 9, 2019

Giving the Gift of Inner Peace | 20:06

The Friends of the TM Program provide scholarships for those who lack the resources to begin the TM technique on their own. We invite everyone to become part of this great initiative. The results are life-transforming for thousands.

Creativity & the Arts

May 20, 2015

Transcendence at Walden Pond

Henry David Thoreau, 1817–1862, USA, writes: “If with closed ears and eyes I consult consciousness for a moment, immediately are all walls and barriers dissipated, earth rolls from under me, and I float…”

Personal Growth

February 15, 2021

The Purpose of Meditation | 55:27

Dr. Tony Nader answers questions at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, the first U.S. medical school to offer the TM program as an elective. They invited Dr. Nader, head of the international TM organizations, to speak at Psychiatry Grand Rounds about the effectiveness of the TM technique to dissolve stress and improve health, and to hold a Q&A about TM practice in MDED 400: Phy­si­cian Wellness through the Transcendental Meditation Technique.

“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

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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

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