Full Stories
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.”
Creativity & the Arts
November 11, 2016
Shy Girl Dreaming
Linda Egenes: “My daily TM practice had such a profound effect on my life that, after graduating with my degree in elementary education, I became a teacher of TM. Here was the missing element in education—the thing I had been looking for: the simple, effortless technique that could help every child express the creativity, intelligence, and goodness that is inside them. Learning to teach the TM program was the fulfillment of my dream to help children grow and learn.”
Better Health
May 4, 2018
A Gift for Myself: Recovering from Lyme
“I am a year into my TM practice, and nearly all of the Lyme symptoms are gone,” writes Donna Faulkner. “Now I’m enjoying the other benefits of the practice, such as joy-filled days of creativity, energy, purposefulness, and peacefulness.”
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)
Better Health
May 3, 2019
My Journey from Physician to TM Teacher
“To be able to pass on this simple formula for experiencing inner silence and enlivening the innate intelligence of the mind and body has been the fulfillment of my dream of really helping people to live better lives,” writes D. Edwards Smith, M.D.
