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Academic Achievement and Transcendental Meditation

September 20, 2011
Struggling students improve their grades by 40% after three months of TM

Research study shows significantly improved standards in Inner-City Schools after three months. Transcendental Meditation improved academic achievement amongst low-performing at-risk students by over 40 percent and significantly improved classroom behaviour, according to a large study newly published online in the journal Education.

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Brilliant minds: What leading businessmen and virtuoso musicians have in common

June 20, 2011
Professional classical musicians’ brains are highly developed

New research shows that professional classical musicians’ brains are highly developed in a way that makes them more alert, eager to learn, open-minded, calm, and playful. The same traits have previously been found among world-class athletes, top-level managers,  and individuals who practise Transcendental Meditation. These traits are collectively referred to as “high mind brain development”, more »

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Ben there, done that!

March 1, 2011
Ben Foster receives Berlin Award

Award winning film star, Ben Foster, has been wowing his audiences, with his sensitive and versatile performances, since he was 16 years old. His recent roles have been as diverse as playing a cowboy in “3:10 to Yuma”, an astronaut in “Pandorum”  and an Iraqi war veteran in “The Messenger“. Choosing to play such differing more »

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Leading Investment Banker Reveals a Simple Key to Efficient Time Management

November 11, 2010
Bob Jones, Goldman Sachs

Time Management Strategies magazine and website, October 2010 In an online video interview Bob Jones, Chief Investment Officer of Goldman Sachs, talks about how regular practice of Transcendental Meditation 20 minutes twice a day helps him to use his time efficiently and reduce stress under pressure. “Thе reason people gеt stressed аnd feel tοο busy more »

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Getting better with age: Clint Eastwood and Transcendental Meditation

May 26, 2010
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At 79, Clint Eastwood is an inspiration for the baby-boomer generation. Not only has kept his youthful strength, energy and good-looks, he has also continued to be incredibly prolific in his work, making sixteen movies in the last 18 years, one of which, Unforgiven, won him his first Oscar in 1993. How does he do more »

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PPQ designer Amy Molyneux recommends TM for life at the top

May 25, 2010
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Fashion designer Amy Molyneux starts her day with Transcendental Meditation, which she describes as “yoga for the brain,” reports the Sky Showbiz column. Amy is one half of the label PPQ (the other half, Percy Parker, also practises TM), and has designed dresses for Girls Aloud, Sienna Miller and Kirsten Dunst, amongst others. Amy, 32, more »

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British chess champion: equipped for life at the top

May 12, 2010
Jonathan Rowson, British chess champion

British chess champion Jonathan Rowson has followed Nick Clegg and William Hague in speaking about how Transcendental Meditation had equipped him for life at the top of his profession. The three times UK chess champion told Indian newspaper The Deccan Herald during a visit to Delhi that he maintains a strong interest in Transcendental Meditation more »

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Study links Transcendental Meditation with leadership, peak performance

July 16, 2009
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Emerald Press issued a release this July announcing their publication in the leading management journal in Britain, Management Decision, of a study showing that peak performers have degrees of brain and psychological development comparable to people who practise Transcendental Meditation. Lead author of the article, Harald Harung PhD, associate professor at Oslo University College, explains more »

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