Transcendental Meditation

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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Timely solution for peace in the Middle East?

May 13, 2011
Positive-News-Spring-2011 Could the military use meditation to create peace?

Based on an article in Positive News -  a hard-facts environmental publication, looking at stories of increasing harmony and environmental awareness in the world. Issue 67, Spring 2011 All his life, Einstein searched for proof of one underlying field of creation – a “unified field,” more basic and many hundreds of thousands of times more more »

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Leading Psychiatrist Addresses Seminar on Meditation and Mental Health

May 5, 2011
Norman Rosenthal speaks in London

World-renowned psychiatrist, Norman Rosenthal, who first identified seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is in the UK to present his new research, which explores the medical effects of meditation on the brain. Dr  Rosenthal addressed a seminar of medical health professionals in Regents Park, London, today, and presented evidence that use of Transcendental Meditation is highly effective in 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
David Lynch Pledge Music Campaign

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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Can meditation significantly improve academic standards in schools?

Increased achievement in English grades in meditating students March 29, 2011

New research shows that the Transcendental Meditation technique may be an effective approach in improving academic achievement amongst low-performing students by as much as 40 per cent. The study published in the journal Education was conducted with 189 high school students, aged 12 to 14, who were below proficiency level in English and Maths. Those taking part in the Transcendental more »

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Russell and Katy Brand Support Meditation Charity at Showbiz Event

December 14, 2010
Russell and Katy Brand at David Lynch Foundation Gala in New York

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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“Our Minds Move Markets”, says Meditation Group

December 14, 2010
Transcendental Meditation group Iowa, USA

The Stock Market has had a tough time recently, with the USA’s Dow Jones Industrial Average suffering its worst one-week drop in five years. No worries though, according to a recent MSN News report, as a meditation group in America’s midwest promises their good vibrations will send the blue-chip index soaring within a year. A group calling more »

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Meditation inspired my new album says Charlatans frontman, Tim Burgess

December 14, 2010
Tim Burgess lead singer The Charlatans

The Charlatans burst onto the Britpop music scene in 1990 with “The Only One I Know” and became part of the heady Manchester scene at the height of the ecstasy years. Twenty years on lead singer Tim Burgess’s inspiration is not drugs and alcohol, but Transcendental Meditation. He learned the technique last year and told The more »

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Clint Eastwood, Russell Brand and David Lynch Join Meditation Project

December 10, 2010
Stars supporting Change Begins Within

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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