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TM is the most widely researched self-development technique in the world.
In the past 50 years, this effortless meditation technique has been shown to play an important role in improving health and reducing stress by providing the nervous system with deep rest. It also develops the full creative potential of the individual. It has been shown to dramatically improve the environment in schools where a climate of fear, bullying, violence and substance abuse undermines not only the academic potential of the students but their physical and mental health too. It has also been successfully used to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and has been successfully incorporated as part of rehabilitation programmes in prisons. Many people today feel a dissatisfaction with life as our culture becomes saturated with the ideals of consumerism and fame. Many find that the things which promise happiness and satisfaction are either out of reach or provide only transient pleasure. TM has long provided both a source of inspiration and wonder as its practitioners discover that many of the things they have searched for lie within. The comedian, actor and writer Russell Brand beautifully explains his experience of TM in this You Tube clip:
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Since 2005 the David Lynch Foundation has shared Transcendental Meditation some of the most stressed populations in the world. TM is simple to learn and enjoyable to practice.
"Sorrow, anxiety, traumatic stress, depression, hate, anger, rage, fear, start to lift away. Life just gets better and better" David Lynch “In learning Transcendental Mediation, I found very quickly, access to a deeper state of happiness.”
Russell Brand. |
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In the clip opposite, Neuroscientist Dr Fred Travis shows an MRI of the brain, which reveals the difference between TM and ordinary rest and he shows how Transcendental Meditation allows the brain to function in a uniquely restful way. We also see how TM gives the brain a healing experience that restores integrated functioning.
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"The whole mind, the whole body goes through a state of restful alertness."
Dr Fred Travis, PhD, Neuroscientist. |
Read more about TM in a recent feature in The Observer
Stella McCartney has recently written about TM on her website
You can read the GQ Guide to meditation here