From the category archives:

Family

Becoming a Better Parent

November 30, 2009

The December issue of Flying Start Parenting magazine features the story of a typical stressed mum who found something that dramatically helped her cope, and be a better parent too.
Helle Pettersen, nurse and mother of three-and-a-half year old daughter Josephine, was a “doing machine”.

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Transcendental Meditation Helps Women with Breast Cancer

November 19, 2009

Women with breast cancer showed reduced stress and improved mental health and emotional well being after learning Transcendental Meditation, according to a new study published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Integrative Cancer Therapies (vol. 8, no. 3: September 2009).
“It is wonderful that physicians now have a range of interventions to use, including [...]

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Top doctors advise “Meditate to avoid recession depression”

November 9, 2009

A leading psychologist and psychiatrist have teamed up to bring the benefits of Transcendental Meditation to the attention of professional people, who are under exceptional pressure at this time. Psychotherapist Nancy Liebler and psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal spoke on “Overcoming Depression in the Recession” at the Center for Leadership Performance, New York on 9 September.

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Financial Director, 60, overcomes lifelong insomnia

July 1, 2009

“Transcendental Meditation has given me inner peace that I didn’t believe I had. But for me the greatest benefit was that normal sleep – which had eluded me for the best part of 20 years – was dramatically enhanced. When I do wake up in the night, I go off to sleep again, as opposed [...]

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