Full Stories
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.
Business Success
April 4, 2018
An Extraordinary Abundance of Time
“While I could write a book about each individual benefit I’ve found from TM, the most extraordinary change I experienced as I shifted to working for myself is the abundance of time,” writes Kat Maund, who started her own home-staging and interior-design business in Portland, Oregon.
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)
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.
