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A growing number of business executives are turning to the Transcendental Meditation program to increase alertness, eliminate stress and fatigue, and enhance their creativity, according to a new article in the May 9 issue of Business Insider. Read more

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Jeanne Ball reports in the Huffington Post about a recent national conference, entitled “Women, Violence and Meditation,” hosted by the David Lynch Foundation’s “Operation Warrior Wellness.” Read more

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Jeanne Ball reports in the Huffington Post on Oprah Winfrey’s recent television special about her visit to the national center for Transcendental Meditation program in Fairfield, Iowa. Read more

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The largest international congress on yoga in contemporary society held in February in Bangalore, India, featured a plenary presentation by Robert Schneider, MD, FACC, Director, Institute for Natural Medicine & Prevention at Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa. Dr. Schneider… Read more

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Transcendental Meditation is now being used to combat the high rates of type 2 diabetes among Native peoples. Ahmed Mohammed, medical director at the Winnebago Indian Hospital in Nebraska, estimates that up to 66 percent of the Winnebago served by the facility are either type 2 diabetic or pre-diabetic. Read more

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William Stixrud, Ph.D., is a clinical neuropsychologist and director of William Stixrud & Associates in Silver Spring, Maryland, a group practice specializing in learning, attention, and emotional disorders. Dr. Stixrud is an adjunct faculty member at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, Read more

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Dr. César Molina learned the Transcendental Meditation technique during his senior year in high school in Puerto Rico in 1972. He says that his 39 years of TM experience has been “enlightening.” “As a high school student I had done some reading on self-actualization. Although I didn’t exactly know what self-actualization really meant… Read more

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The following talk is from “A Promise for the Family of Man”—a lecture given by Maharishi at Jones Hall, Houston, Texas, in 1972. Read more

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Helping ‘Children of the Night’ – Transcending a Different Type of PTSD

by admin January 27, 2012

Mental health professionals have emphasized the need to diagnose and treat PTSD wherever it arises. In this piece, I would like to draw attention to yet another group suffering from PTSD – child victims of prostitution who, against all odds, are trying to go straight and choose a different path in life. Read more

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TM helping people in Ireland cope with the global financial crisis?

by admin December 16, 2011

A Sunday feature story in The Independent, one of Ireland’s leading newspapers ran with the title, “The answer to happiness lies within us.” Irish newspaper suggests it might. Columnist Barry Egan writes that as times gets tougher, “many people are searching for a more meaningful existence Read more

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“Transcendental Meditation is back in a big way” – The Independent (UK)

by admin September 15, 2011

TM, as its followers call it, is rapidly moving from kooky to respectable mainstream thanks largely to a burgeoning body of scientific research which indicates that regular meditators can… Read more

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‘Brilliant minds’—New Research on the Brain State of Virtuoso Musicians and How it Relates to TM

by admin August 5, 2011

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… Read more

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Can Transcendental Meditation help those suffering from diabetes?

by admin July 28, 2011

Endocrinologist Sandeep Chaudhary, M.D., and cardiologists Robert Schneider, M.D., and César Molina, M.D., answer questions about effects of the Transcendental Meditation technique on Type 2 diabetes.Read more

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British chess champion: Equipped for life at the top

by admin April 14, 2011
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British chess champion Jonathan Rowson credits his 14-year practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique with preparing him for life at the top of his game. The three-time UK chess champion told The Deccan Herald during a visit to Delhi that he regularly practices Transcendental Meditation. Read more

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What is the value of the ‘mantra’ in the practice of Transcendental Meditation?

by admin March 22, 2011

In this video, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi explains the role of the mantra in the process of transcending. He also explains the naturalness of the TM technique. Read more

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British designer Amy Molyneux recommends TM for ‘living your full potential’

by admin March 10, 2011

British fashion designer Amy Molyneux starts her day with the Transcendental Meditation program, which she describes as “yoga for the brain,” according to a news story in the Sky Showbiz column. Amy and her design partner Percy Parker, who also practices the TM technique, created the fashion label PPQ in 1992 developing a design style that continues to set trends for London’s fashion scene. Read more

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