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Business Success
April 3, 2021
A High-Tech Entrepreneur’s Experience with Advanced Techniques of TM
Oded Shefer, founder and CEO of CPattern, describes the accelerated growth in his personal and business lives since learning the TM Advanced Techniques. “I was practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique for many years, thinking I was driving a race car,” he writes. “Now I am on a jet plane.”
Creativity & the Arts
December 22, 2016
Unlocking the Music Within
Donald Sosin: “After I started TM, I wrote a little song cycle that was the real start of my compositional career. I had been thinking about it but had not been able to bring it to fruition. Suddenly the process of creation was fun and the music came easily.”
Better Health
January 24, 2017
A Journey from Brain Injury to Brain Health
Author and university professor William T. Hathaway describes how TM supported his brain health and gave him access to his talent and mental abilities: “In a few weeks my thoughts became clearer, and I didn’t want drugs anymore. I could concentrate. And I could write…” (Read more)
Creativity & the Arts
March 1, 2017
A Lifeline to a Calmer, More Connected, More Creative Version of Myself
Storyteller and Yoga instructor Tracy Chipman finds TM after a long search: “I love sharing this story because it just illustrates the saying, ‘When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.’ ” (Read more)
Business Success
May 25, 2017
One of My Top 3 Decisions
Larry Comp: “Like many of us, I grew up in a dysfunctional family. I suffered from a great deal of stress, struggled with grades, and had a very bad temper. One summer vacation, I was working night crew, stocking grocery shelves with one of my buddies… He told me that he did TM, which I had never heard of…” (Read more)
Business Success
April 3, 2021
A High-Tech Entrepreneur’s Experience with Advanced Techniques of TM
Oded Shefer, founder and CEO of CPattern, describes the accelerated growth in his personal and business lives since learning the TM Advanced Techniques. “I was practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique for many years, thinking I was driving a race car,” he writes. “Now I am on a jet plane.”
Personal Growth
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.”
Personal Growth
February 28, 2020
Discovering the Unity in All Things
Adile Esen, Ph.D., shares how she learned ways to enrich her experiences and find greater happiness and success on the path to enlightenment. “I would be walking and talking, and at the same time feel great wholeness and oneness—a sense of total unity with everything around me,” she writes.
Personal Growth
January 4, 2020
Why Didn’t I Do This 20 Years Ago?
“After just a few days of practicing TM, I noticed I was sleeping better, gaining greater insight into my studies, and felt calmer, less anxious, and more cheerful. I was filled with love for life, and just more relaxed,” says Edward Nydle.
Creativity & the Arts
December 9, 2019
Reclaiming My Poetic Voice
“Practicing the TM technique has helped me reconnect with my creative gifts,” writes Anna Colton. “What a delicious surprise all of this has been, to reignite a creative flame which I had thought was forever lost to me!” Read more and three of her poems.