This is the message that Teachers of Transcendental Meditation (TM) will be sharing with their local communities on Friday 26 February – National Heart Day – around the UK.

“If this kind of result was observed for a new prescription drug, it would be a billion-dollar industry to make it available to everyone immediately.”

This statement was made by Dr Norman Rosenthal, for 20 years a senior researcher at the US National Institutes of Mental Health, following the announcement at the American Heart Association annual conference last November that a recently completed and rigorously controlled nine-year study funded by the US National Institutes of Health found a 47 per cent reduction in the rate of major clinical events (mortality, heart attacks, and strokes) amongst heart patients practising Transcendental Meditation.