Meditation

Can Meditation Change the World?

January 28, 2013
Former president of Mozambique Joachim Chissano replaced a culture of war with a culture of peace.

The Amazing Story of Mozambique's 'Meditating President'. From: Out Of The Darkness, by Steve Taylor. Psychology Today What would happen if every member of a country's government and army started to meditate, asks author Steve Taylor writing in the journal Psychology Today? Would the country become peaceful and crime-free? And would meditation prove to be the more »

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Meditation Could Halve Heart Attacks and Strokes in Heart Patients

January 10, 2013
New study shows Transcendental Meditation improves long-term health of the heart

New study also found lower blood pressure and reduced stress and anger, as well as improvement in long-term heart health. NBC (see TV report, right), CNN, the Daily Mail, the Huffington Post, the New York Times and other media worldwide. November 18, 2012 People with heart disease who practised Transcendental Meditation regularly were almost 50 percent less likely more »

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Did Our Ancestors Benefit from a Fourth State of Consciousness?

September 29, 2012

Leading American psychiatrist identifies ‘lost’ human experience that could be the key to health and happiness – and reveals how we can rediscover it, in a new book and in a series of  seminars in London starting next week. We experience life within the realm of three changing states: waking, dreaming and sleeping. Yet in every culture mystics, more »

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From Guns to Meditation

June 29, 2012
Troy van Beek - from guns to meditation

As a US Navy Seal, Troy van Beek worked for 9 years in some of the most hostile and dangerous places on Earth. His last tour of duty was in  Afghanistan, where he was the lead sniper protecting the Afghan president for two years. Car and road bombs and suicide attacks were a part of his more »

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“I’m happier than I’ve ever been in my life”

June 23, 2012

Russell Brand Credits Meditation with Helping Him Cope with Divorce The Sun 20th June 2012 His divorce finalises in a couple of weeks but Russell Brand admits he’s never been happier. And he says Transcendental Meditation has helped him through his break up from Katy Perry because it’s allowed him to “tune into a higher consciousness”. The more »

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14 Business Leaders Who Swear By Meditation

June 1, 2012

Business Insider “CEOs have stressful jobs, and some have taken to intense hobbies to find solace from the daily grind”, reports Jhaneel Lockhart in Business Insider magazine. “Some practise meditation – or even Transcendental Meditation, a mantra-based technique derived about 50 years ago from ancient Indian practices. “We’ve compiled a list of leaders who say that more »

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David Lynch Foundation launches in UK

May 3, 2012
David Lynch Foundation (UK)

Thursday 26 April saw the eagerly-awaited UK launch of the David Lynch Foundation, which was established in the USA by the film director 5 years ago to fund courses in Transcendental Meditation for young people, war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, the homeless, and other disadvantaged groups. Since then, the Foundation has enabled over 200,000 more »

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Oprah’s TV show creates record interest in Transcendental Meditation

April 19, 2012
Oprah Winfrey talks on TM

Oprah’s recent TV show featuring Transcendental Meditation and the town of Fairfield, Iowa, where thousands practise the technique each day, has generated immense interest in Transcendental Meditation in the USA, where the edition of the Next Chapter show reached an audience of several million. The US Transcendental Meditation website has reported a large increase in interest in learning the technique. Oprah more »

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Successful journalist uses TM to stay on top – and healthy

February 1, 2012
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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.

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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 1st January, 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.

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