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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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Post image for “O” highlights Oprah’s experience with TM

In Oprah Winfrey’s most recent “What I Know for Sure” column in the February 2012 issue of O Magazine, she talks about her experiences with the Transcendental Meditation program and her visit to Fairfield, Iowa, the home of… Read more

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Post image for Ellen DeGeneres and Russell Brand raise awareness about TM for overcoming traumatic stress

Meditating celebrities, leaders of veteran service organizations, and top scientists and educators gathered at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on December 3rd for the David Lynch Foundation’s third annual “Change Begins Within” benefit gala. Read more

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

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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Post image for Oprah Winfrey talks TM with Dr. Mehmet Oz

On December 7, 2011, Oprah Winfrey was featured in a candid, one-on-one interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz as part of his nationally televised “The Dr. Oz Show.” During the interview, she discussed her life after the “Oprah Show,” and her aspirations for the future—including the very positive impact of her practice… Read more

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Post image for Helping veterans and their families overcome post-traumatic stress

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can have a crushing impact on the lives of veterans. But worse, it is often contagious. The negative psychological and emotional traumas of a vet’s past can spread to his or her family members and other caregivers—with nightmarish consequences… Read more

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Post image for Thousands of Buddhist monks in Asia learn Transcendental Meditation

More than 3,000 Buddhist monks in 100 monasteries throughout Southeast Asia have learned the Transcendental Meditation technique, as a result of the work by a revered Japanese Buddhist monk, Reverend Koji Oshima, who is a longtime TM practitioner and certified TM teacher. According to Rev. Oshima, the Buddhist monks appreciate the… Read more

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Post image for “Half of all Americans will suffer from mental health woes” –CDC Report

As important as our physical health is, our mental health is even more important. It colors our perception of our health and our environment. It has been said: “The world is as we are,” and if we are caught in the depths of depression or overwhelmed by anxiety, it is as if our entire world… Read More

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TM school among England’s new “Free School” pioneers

by Mario Orsatti September 27, 2011
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Maharishi School in Lancashire has been granted “Free School” status by the UK’s Department for Education, joining 23 other new state-maintained primary, secondary and all-age schools in England. Read more

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

by admin September 15, 2011
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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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DLF receives $500K matching grant to help veterans with post-traumatic stress learn TM

by Heather Hartnett September 12, 2011
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The David Lynch Foundation announced on September 11th that it has received a $500,000 matching grant to be used to teach the Transcendental Meditation technique to 10,000 veterans with post-traumatic stress (PTS) and their families. Read more

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Adam, Asperger’s Syndrome, and the Transcendental Meditation Program

by Mario Orsatti August 1, 2011
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Asperger’s is often referred to as “high-functioning autism.” Asperger syndrome (AS) is a developmental disorder, associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), one of a distinct group of neurological conditions characterized by… Read more

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“MEDITATION NATION: How Transcendental Meditation returned as the new status symbol” –Details magazine

by Mario Orsatti July 25, 2011
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“Movers and shakers are again embracing that seventies mainstay Transcendental Meditation,” according to national magazine DETAILS in its September…Read more

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“Transcendence” becomes a New York Times bestseller!

by Mario Orsatti July 21, 2011
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Over the past month, Dr. Norman Rosenthal’s new book Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation has landed on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly. Read more

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David Lynch Releases ‘Download for Good’ Charity Compilation

by Bob Roth July 18, 2011
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Download for Good: Music That Changes the World, a unique compilation album featuring music spanning across genres and generations, was released this week. The list of participating musicians is staggering, including… Read more

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“Meditation Helps Homeless Kids” –NBC News

by Puki Freeberg June 23, 2011
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NBC News recently reported on the benefits homeless teens are finding as a result of the Transcendental Meditation program. According to an article in Psychology Today, in the United States alone, approximately 3.5 million people are homeless and… Read more

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“Meditation promoted for soldiers suffering from PTSD” – CNN

by Mario Orsatti June 14, 2011
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This past week gala events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, DC drew celebrities, scientists and doctors, and huge crowds to promote the use the Transcendental Meditation program as an… Read more

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Celebrities, recent research fuel interest in Transcendental Meditation: New York Times

by Bob Roth April 5, 2011
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The Sunday New York Times carried a lengthy feature highlighting America’s rising interest in the Transcendental Meditation program. The article noted that this popularity has been spurred, in part, by the outspoken support offered by meditating celebrities, such as award-winning filmmakers David Lynch, Clint Eastwood, and Martin Scorsese. Read more

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Urban Zen Foundation honors David Lynch Foundation Vice President

by Mario Orsatti March 30, 2011
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The Urban Zen Foundation has named as its April 2011 Community Ambassador Robert Roth, Vice-President of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. Read more

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Launching ‘Operation Warrior Wellness” — VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS Bringing TM to Veterans suffering from PTSD

by Bob Roth December 29, 2010
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Veterans, medical doctors, researchers, and celebrities came together at the Paley Center for Media in midtown Manhattan on December 13 to support the David Lynch Foundation’s launch of Operation Warrior Wellness. The outreach aims at providing funds to teach the Transcendental Meditation technique to 10,000 veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder—PTSD—and their families. See video post

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