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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 ►

TM.org

September 15, 2024

Transforming the Lives of Women and Girls in Uganda and around the World | 47:40

Leslee Goldstein, Ph.D., talks about her passion for working with impoverished women, particularly in developing countries. She discusses her research on mothers and daughters in Kampala, Uganda, and the wonderful changes that occurred when they learned the Transcendental Meditation technique.

Enlightenment

September 8, 2024

Dr. Tony Nader Talks about the Goal of Transcendental Meditation—Unity Consciousness | 54:23

Bob Roth, CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, discusses video excerpts of Dr. Tony Nader talking about the ultimate goal of TM—Unity Consciousness. Dr. Nader is a medical doctor and neuroscientist trained at Harvard and MIT, as well as a scholar in modern science and Vedic wisdom. He is the head of the international Transcendental Meditation organizations.

Business

September 1, 2024

Enlightening Oneself and Inspiring Others | 50:12

Derrick Ades, Executive Vice President of the commercial real estate company CBRE, discusses his experience with the Transcendental Meditation technique. He also talks about the challenges of his career in a Fortune 500 company and the value of his daily TM practice while working in New York City during and after the intensely stressful COVID-19 pandemic.

The Arts

August 25, 2024

Music and Silence in the Life of a Composer | 54:51

Award-winning composer Joanne Metcalf talks about how the TM and TM-Sidhi programs have impacted her work and enriched her life. Her compositions have been performed and broadcast in more than 30 countries by leading musicians, including the Hilliard Ensemble and three-time Grammy winner The Crossing. She shares two pieces of her choral music, which is acclaimed for its evocative lyricism.

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.

Vedic Knowledge

June 1, 2019

7 Key Ways to Sharpen Your Memory

Ever worry about blanking on a word or name? Nancy Lonsdorf, M.D., renowned Maharishi AyurVeda® expert, provides easy integrative health tools to maintain the brain, combining the best of ancient and modern approaches for a resilient mind and memory.

Maharishi

December 22, 2016

Being Is Bliss: The Secret behind Why TM Is Easy | 2:50

In a 1968 talk at Lake Louise, Canada, Maharishi explains why the practice of TM is effortless: “The principle of Transcendental Meditation is simple: Being is bliss in its nature. It is infinite happiness.”

Better Health

August 1, 2019

10 Most Popular Articles on Your TM Practice, Health, and Growth

We’ve collected 10 of our most popular stories from the past year, to continue our Summer Reading series. Let us know which are your favorites in the Comments section or at the end of each article. Enjoy!

Maharishi

July 6, 2018

What Is “Being,” and How Can We Experience It?

In the definitive classic Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi unveils the journey of life, from the manifest world of diversity to the unified field of life deep within each of us: the state of Being.

Vedic Knowledge

August 2, 2018

What’s Your Mind-Body Type?

Take a quick quiz to find out. Then get easy dietary and lifestyle tips from Ayurvedic expert Dr. Nancy Lonsdorf.

Maharishi

July 7, 2018

Maharishi’s Revival of an Ancient Tradition of Ultimate Human Development

How Maharishi brought to light the core meditation technique of the Vedic tradition for the full unfoldment of human potential, from Dr. Craig Pearson’s The Supreme Awakening: Experiences of Enlightenment throughout Time.

EnjoyTM.org

February 15, 2019

Deepen Your Inner Experience and Accelerate Your Growth toward Higher States of Consciousness

Ready for more? Regular TM® practice allows us to transcend the thinking process, while Advanced Techniques of the TM program culture the experience of more subtle levels of thought, enhancing our actions and fulfillment in life.

David Lynch Foundation

January 12, 2019

From the Bronx to Bali, TM Is Transforming Kids’ Lives | 2:57

Enjoy their stories in this heart-warming video. “Before, while studying, I used to get distracted very frequently. But now I am very concentrated, and my health is also improved,” says a young girl from the West Bank.

MIU.edu

January 12, 2019

A Radically Different Approach to Education

At Maharishi University of Management, students discover themselves in everything they learn.

TM in the News

December 16, 2018

Department of Defense–Funded Study Shows TM Technique Significantly Reduces PTSD Symptoms in Veterans | 2:32

Findings published in The Lancet Psychiatry open new avenues for PTSD care: Comparable to veterans utilizing a gold standard for treatment, prolonged exposure therapy, veterans who practiced the TM technique experienced significant reductions in symptoms.

EnjoyTM.org

November 10, 2018

Take a Powerful Step Forward

The TM-Sidhi® program cultures thought and action from deep inner silence, so that activity is more joyful, powerful, and life-supporting.

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.

“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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