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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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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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“Transcendental Meditation: Were the hippies right all along?”

July 12, 2011

The Independent on Sunday By Laura Tennant For years, it has been ridiculed as a 1960s embarrassment. Now Transcendental Meditation is back in a big way. So were those hippies on to something all along? … For strange as it may sound, among those of us who seek to surf the zeitgeist, more »

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Meditation: Don’t Leave Home Without It!

May 27, 2011

Dr Norman Rosenthal who recommends daily meditation

guardian.co.uk: comment is free Wednesday 18 May 2011 A Daily Dose of Meditation Is a Route to Spiritual Joy and Mental Health. The psychiatrist Dr Norman Rosenthal, best known for describing seasonal affective disorder (SAD), believes meditation is an essential daily habit. Addressing a seminar on Meditation and Mental Health in London this month – more »

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Transforming the lives of Colombia’s street children

April 11, 2011

Colombia's street children - smiling now

The dynamism, love and immense enthusiasm, that radiates from Father Gabriel Mejia makes one realise how he has been so successful in helping the abandoned street children in Colombia. Over the last 25 years his Centres (Fundacion Hogares Claret) have helped tens of thousands of children find a way to live healthy, happy and purposeful more »

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David Lynch Signs Up Leading Artists for Charity Music Label

April 7, 2011

Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Peter Gabriel, David Stewart, Moby and Maroon 5 are among an impressive roster of artists who are supporting David Lynch’s new online charity music label, reports The Independent. Music fans can pledge money donations to the David Lynch Foundation Music, and in return will be given exclusive access to a 17-track compilation of more »

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Russell and Katy Brand Support Meditation Charity at Showbiz Event

December 14, 2010

Russell Brand and Katy Perry joined David Lynch and a host of other Hollywood stars at a glittering benefit event in New York last night to help bring a therapeutic meditation technique to thousands of war veterans suffering from stress disorders. Earlier in the day Russell, Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood helped launched the Operation more »

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Clint Eastwood, Russell Brand and David Lynch Join Meditation Project

December 10, 2010

Clint Eastwood, Russell Brand and David Lynch are to launch a new initiative to teach 10,000 veterans and their families a simple meditation practice for preventing and treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), reported USA Today on 9 December 2010. The launch of Operation Warrior Wellness project will take place at this year’s Change Begins Within event in New more »

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The Resilient Warrior: Healing the Hidden Wounds of War with Meditation

December 8, 2010

As one of the last surviving American World War II fighter pilots, Jerry Yellin, 86, is a great inspiration to younger would-be servicemen. He was decorated with the highest awards for bravery in combat missions over the Pacific, but the former Army Corps captain’s greatest interest lies in inspiring those who are leaving combat and re-entering more »

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How Meditation Can Help Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

December 8, 2010

Filmmaker David Lynch is teaming up with celebrities and war veterans to launch “Operation Warrior Wellness“, a meditation-based programme to help veterans overcome stress-related disorders. At the upcoming benefit event, Change Begins Within, Lynch will be joined by Clint Eastwood, Russell Simmons, Mehmet Oz, Russell Brand, Katy Perry, Donna Karan and others in support of a project more »

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