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Press releases on Transcendental Meditation
Keep Your Heart Healthy with Transcendental Meditation Around Britain, to mark National Heart Day, heart disease patients – and others – can find out how the Transcendental Meditation technique can benefit their health ... The BBC, the Daily Mail and other media worldwide reported in November 2009 how Transcendental Meditation reduced heart attack, stroke and mortality rates by 47% in patients with coronary heart disease according to a 9 year study presented at the American Heart Association annual conference in November 2009. "If this kind of result was observed for a new prescription drug, it would be a billion-dollar industry to make it available to everyone immediately." This statement from Dr Norman Rosenthal, a senior researcher ... (more ...)
Letter to the Editor, The Times I was interested to see that some schools in England are introducing Mindfulness training as part of their school day. As the Headteacher of a school established in 1986 to incorporate meditation daily in the classroom (specifically Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi), I can assert that the school in your report was certainly not "the first to introduce meditation skills as a regular subject on the curriculum" ... (more ...)
Can stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation help CHD patients prevent future heart attacks? The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute will fund a $1 million study at Columbia University Medical Center to determine whether the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique can help patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) prevent future heart attacks, strokes and death .... …(PDF
Transcendental Meditation Helps Women with Breast Cancer Women with breast cancer showed reduced stress and improved mental health and emotional well being after learning Transcendental Meditation, according to a new study published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Integrative Cancer Therapies (Vol. 8, No. 3: September 2009). …(PDF
Top doctors advise: Meditate to avoid recession depression A leading psychologist and psychiatrist are teaming up to bring the benefits of Transcendental Meditation to the attention of professionals at this time. Psychotherapist Nancy Liebler and psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal will speak on "Overcoming Depression in the Recession" at the Center for Leadership Performance, 70 Broad Street, in Manhattan. …(PDF
Native Americans Learning Transcendental Meditation to Enliven Traditional Values
and Prevent Diabetes The David Lynch Foundation has been teaching Transcendental Meditation, as founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, to American Indian students in the middle school and high school on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska since 2006. The positive impact of Transcendental Meditation in the lives of these children inspired the Winnebago Elders to learn to meditate as well. Among the many documented benefits of Transcendental Meditation, the Elders noticed an immediate and surprising effect: a dramatic reduction in the symptoms of diabetes, a health problem that plagues an extremely high proportion of the Native American Indian population. …(PDF See also what the Medical Director of Wellspring Endocrinology at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California. has to say about "Pre-Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and the Transcendental Meditation Technique"
In Search of Excellence:
Leadership, Peak Performance and Transcendental Meditation
– new research Peak performers have significantly higher degrees of brain and psychological development than the average population, according to a new study of brain functioning and measures of psychological development. Moreover, this higher level of brain functioning is strikingly similar to that found in people who practise Transcendental Meditation, which suggests that the qualities of peak performance might be systematically developed in anyone, through Transcendental Meditation. …(PDF
Peace in the Middle East: Scientific solution to a political problem? Peace in the Middle East is easily within our grasp, as indicated by a new scientific paper published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration on 29 June 2009.
The study addresses the possibility that a relatively small group of people practising the Transcendental Meditation™ and TM-Sidhi programme®, as founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, twice daily together in a group can create peace in the Middle East.
The hypothesis is not new. . …(PDF
“Use your whole brain”
– Brain specialist offers plan to rescue
Britain’s failing schools One of the world’s most published researchers in meditation, brain functioning, and education, Dr Fred Travis, will be talking to education leaders, teachers, and students in Great Britain during the last week of April to provide a simple solution to the stress, mental ill-health, and underperformance prevalent in Britain today. …(PDF
Paul McCartney to Headline Benefit Concert
at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday, April 4 Paul McCartney and special guests Ringo Starr, Sheryl Crow, Donovan, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, Moby, Paul Horn, Bettye LaVette, and Jim James will perform at the David Lynch Foundation's benefit concert, "Change Begins Within," at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Saturday, April 4th, 7:30 p.m.
David Lynch, Russell Simmons, Laura Dern, and other surprise guests will fill out the star-studded slate as presenters.
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“Change Begins Within” will raise funds to teach one million at-risk children to meditate—giving them life-long tools to overcome stress and violence and promote peace and success in their lives. …(PDF
Is Meditation the New Medication
for Stressed University Students? Research published in the 24 February issue of the peer-reviewed International Journal of Psychophysiology*, suggests that the simple mental technique of Transcendental Meditation, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, may be a solution to common problems amongst students. …(PDF
Transcendental meditation reduces ADHD
symptoms among students: Newly published study Research recently published suggests that the simple mental technique of Transcendental Meditation may be a valuable adjunct in the treatment for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)… Children taught Transcendental Meditation, according to the newly published research*, showed improvements in attention, working memory, organisation, and behaviour regulation. .... (PDF
Solution to Global Market Meltdown Dr John Hagelin, world-renowned quantum physicist and Executive Director of the Global Financial Capital of New York, offers a practical and proven solution to the current instability of the global markets, based on collective meditation technologies. He is currently meeting New York’s financial leaders to present this solution to them and is available for telephone interviews.
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Maharishi Foundation congratulates Dr Hagelin for his initiative and invites financial leaders in The City of London and the British Government to invest in proven technologies of consciousness to help create a new stable foundation for the markets. Press Officer Dr Charles Cunningham says: ‘‘While we applaud the efforts of the British Government to resolve the financial crisis, the solution we offer is a unique tool to defuse stress and fear and create coherent collective consciousness – the basis of a balanced strong national and world economy. Dr Hagelin’s message is as relevant for Britain as it is for the USA.’’ …(PDF
Transcendental Meditation Lowers Blood Pressure The most rigorous analysis of the scientific findings to date, published in the March issue of American Journal of Hypertension , confirms that Transcendental Meditation helps lower high blood pressure as effectively as antihypertensive medication.
Dr James Anderson of the University of Kentucky applied the highest standards of statistical analysis to data combined from the nine randomised controlled trials on Transcendental Meditation and blood pressure that meet the strictest scientific criteria (conducted between 1983 and 2006). His findings confirm that Transcendental Meditation does significantly lower blood pressure – on average of 4.7 points, systolic (the top number), and 3.2 points, diastolic (the lower number) – as indicated by separate trials. …(PDF
“CATCHING THE BIG FISH”
COMES TO IRELAND AND THE UK
20-27 OCTOBER David Lynch (Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, INLAND EMPIRE), and songwriter/poet Donovan Leitch (Sunshine Superman, Mellow Yellow, Jennifer Juniper, Hurdy Gurdy Man), are visiting Dublin, Belfast, London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh from 20 to 27 October ... Highlights of the five city UK-Ireland tour include: A prominent slot at The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival; presentation of this year’s David Lean lecture at BAFTA (traditionally given by one of the world’s top directors); the launch of this year’s Belfast Festival at Queen’s, and a special event at London University’s Institute of Education …(PDF
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