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Meditation

Successful journalist uses TM to stay on top – and healthy

February 1, 2012

Julie Eagleton has always worked as a writer. For a number of years she had her own column in the well known theatre magazine, Plays and Players, featuring interviews with leading performers from stage and screen. Now, as a freelance journalist, she has greater freedom to travel, writing lifestyle and travel articles for The Times, more »

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Oprah’s New TV Series to Feature Show on Transcendental Meditation

January 18, 2012

Oprah Winfrey joins a group of 500 other woman to practice Transcendental Meditation during the filming of her new TV series

Oprah Winfrey’s new TV series, ‘Oprah’s Next Chapter’, which launched on January 1st, is to include an episode on Transcendental Meditation, exploring how the simple technique has transformed the lives of many Americans, including those of Oprah and her 400 employees. The TV star and her team learned to practise the technique at their studios in more »

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Evening Standard: Transcendental Meditation Free School in London

November 21, 2011

New free school planned for London will incorporate TM in the curriculum

“Children as young as four will be taught Transcendental Meditation twice a day at a new free school in London,” reported the Evening Standard on 14 November. “Followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who taught the technique to The Beatles, want to open the school in Hampton for pupils aged four to eighteen. Every morning and more »

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Thousands of Buddhist Monks in Asia Learn Transcendental Meditation

November 10, 2011

Buddhist monks who have learnt Transcendental Meditation at a monastery in Thailand

More than 3,000 Buddhist monks in 100 monasteries throughout Southeast Asia have learned the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique, as a result of the work of a revered Japanese Buddhist monk, Reverend Koji Oshima, who is a long-term practitioner and teacher of TM. According to Rev Oshima, who has personally instructed the technique in many of more »

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WebMD: How to Improve Your Physical and Mental Health Naturally

November 3, 2011

The world’s leading medical website explores the considerable body of research on the health benefits of Transcendental Meditation. WebMD – the Magazine October 2011 Marisa McGinnis is one of many individuals whose life and health have been transformed by Transcendental Meditation (TM), reports Web MD, the award-winning website for medical and health information. Two more »

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High Medical Costs Decrease Significantly after Five Years of Transcendental Meditation

October 11, 2011

Healthcare costs of Transcendental Meditation Practitioners decreased by 28% over Five Years

American Journal of Health Promotion Autumn 2011 According to a newly published Canadian study, the medical costs of treating people with consistently high healthcare needs was reduced by 28 percent after an average of five years practice of the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique by the individuals, indicating a significant improvement in their general health. This more »

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Acclaimed Lancashire School Wins Free School Status

September 9, 2011

Daily sessions of meditation are the key to Maharishi Free School's success

A flurry of media interest greeted the new term at the Maharishi Free School in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, with radio, television & print coverage of Britain’s only school to offer Consciousness Based Education, now state funded for the first time. Head Teacher Derek Cassells was interviewed last weekend on Real Radio, Radio Lancashire, Radio 4, Granada more »

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Social cohesion requires brain cohesion

September 5, 2011

As doom turned to broom on our screens recently, every news source was filled with analyses of the riots in some of Britain’s major cities: Why had they happened? What is wrong with our society? How can they be prevented from happening again? And to accompany images of youngsters making off with bottles of wine, more »

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‘Estate of Mind’: The UK’s Meditating Village

August 24, 2011

A marble brahmasthan lies at the centre of Maharishi Garden Village

Spirit and Destiny magazine explores the “fortune-creating homes” of Maharishi Garden Village in Suffolk. September 2011 issue “Transcendental Meditation’s appeal is unsurprising, as it claims to offer a more fulfilled life and higher level of well-being for individuals – and society as a whole,” writes Spirit and Destiny magazine. “But it still comes as something more »

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“We need not struggle for the things we want in life”

August 19, 2011

Stephen Hopson is an American who was born profoundly deaf, but this has never prevented him from achieving all that he wanted in life. He practises Transcendental Meditation and has found the technique to be life changing. In his words it is “a simple reminder that we need not struggle for the things we want more »

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