The problem of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is on the rise throughout the world. Many doctors and researchers think that this problem is directly related to the sharp increase of sensory stimulus created by increasing TV watching and computer use. Other researchers are correlating the alarming growth rate of stress and anxiety among children with the increase in the incidence of this debilitating disorder.

According to NBC News, ADHD is a behavior condition that now affects from 4 percent to 12 percent of U.S. children. ADHD is characterized by the inability to focus, listen, and complete tasks and schoolwork. Many children are medicated to control the condition with negative side-effects.

TM has been found to help children with ADHD

Research in 2011 conducted by Dr. Sarina Grosswald and Dr. Fred Travis on students with learning disabilities in Washington, DC found that the TM technique significantly improved brain functioning and decreased the symptoms of ADHD.

Now schools in the Caribbean are beginning to utilize the TM technique to help students with ADHD.

Dr. Lucia John, the director of the TM program on the island of Dominica, has been teaching the TM technique to students in several town around the island. The children who have learned the TM technique can focus better in school, are much better behaved, do their homework with greater ease, and have more success in their study for tests, according to their teachers. Parents also report that their children are noticeably more settled in their demeanor—that they are experiencing an increase of inner contentment, improved sleep, less anxiety, and better health.

In early January the school in theKalinago Indian Territory, invited Dr. John to begin teaching TM to students in their villages. These native people are “Carib” Indians, the original inhabitants of the island. Unfortunately, through the island’s different colonial periods, like so many other First Nation peoples, they came almost to extinction. They now live in villages in a section of Dominica call the Carib Territory.

So far Dr. John has instructed an initial group of 17 children along with their teacher in the Transcendental Meditation technique—with remarkable results. Now many more students, teachers and parents are eagerly waiting to also be able to learn the TM technique.

Donations are needed to help Dr. John complete the instruction of the more than 200 children and parents in Dominica who have applied for the ADHD project.

Those wishing to contribute can donate for this project through The Seeds of Heaven Foundation (www.seedsofheaven.org). Donations to Seeds of Heaven are tax deductible for those living in the US. Those not needing a tax deduction may also contact Dr. Lucia John directly by email at ljohn@tm.org for further information and instructions on how to donate.

Dr. John’s TM initiative in Dominica is serving as a model for the whole Caribbean.
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REFERENCES:

http://www.tm.org/blog/students/adhd-tm/

http://adhd-tm.org/

http://doctorsontm.org/childhood-adhd

http://doctorsontm.org/adhd

Soldiers too often return from wars with the life-damaging effects of post-traumatic stress (PTS). But what about the surviving victims of war?

In recent years millions of people have been the victims of war, and many hundreds of thousands fight to survive the extreme stress of refugee camps. Refugees live with the constant reminder of what war has done to their lives and those of their families. They live in a state of uncertainty, and in conditions of great hardship and extreme stress.

Could the TM technique be a useful form of aide to these suffering individuals?

A randomized/matched study published in the April 2013 issue of Journal of Traumatic Stress (Volume 26, Issue 2, pp. 295-298.) measured the severity of post-traumatic stress symptoms in refugees in these camps before and after learning the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique. The reductions were dramatic.

In this study forty-two refugees from the Congolese civil war, living in Uganda, were assigned to learn TM immediately or wait until after the study. The participants were matched on age, gender and severity of post-traumatic stress symptoms at baseline. All participants were given the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Checklist (PCL) at baseline, and 30-day and 135-day after learning TM. PCL scores in the control group trended upward from baseline to the two posttests. In contrast, PCL scores in the TM group went from high at baseline, indicating severe PTS symptoms, to a non-symptomatic level after 30-days TM practice, and remained low at 135-days.

“We anticipated improvement, but I didn’t expect this magnitude of change,” said lead author Brian Rees, M.D., M.P.H.. “The continued improvement at four months also led us to conclude that TM may be a very worthwhile intervention for anyone suffering from post traumatic stress.”

“I was surprised to see how quickly TM practice had an effect on posttraumatic stress symptoms in these refugees, who had no home, no job, and very little support from their environment,” said co-author Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director for the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management. “These findings suggest that TM may be an effective antidote to the rising incidence of PTS in the world.”

A person with posttraumatic stress may be hyper-vigilant, sleep poorly, distrust others, have memory problems, and have difficulty making decisions and following through. Traumatized populations are challenged both by outer circumstances and by inner conditions to help themselves. Thus, posttraumatic stress symptoms are resistant to change by usual therapy. The unique state of restful alertness gained during TM practice appears to reverse the damage done by traumatic experiences.

Reductions in posttraumatic stress in African refuges replicate findings in previous research with Vietnam veterans and Iraqi/Afghanistan veterans.

TM practice was more effective than psychotherapy in reducing anxiety, depression, insomnia, alcohol abuse, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and stress reactivity in 18 Vietnam veterans randomly assigned to group. Three-months practice of TM was also reported to decrease anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress symptoms in veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. Findings from these studies support the efficacy of TM practice for reducing posttraumatic stress symptoms. Large-scale studies assessing both quantitative and qualitative measures are warranted to investigate the effects of TM on reducing behavioral, psychological and physiological symptoms resulting from traumatic experiences across cultures.

The following is an excerpt from the newly released book, “Transcendental Meditation: The Essential Teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi” by Jack Forem.

PREVENTION: MASTER KEY TO GOOD HEALTH

Spending on health care in the United States is projected to reach the totally incomprehensible amount of $4.3 trillion by 2017. But what do we Americans get in return for that enormous sum of money? As many readers of this book may know, the U.S. spends more per capita for health care than any other nation on Earth—a lot more—and yet our health “outcomes” lag far behind the best. According to a 2010 article in The New England Journal of Medicine, the U.S. ranks 37th in the world in overall health-care effectiveness, 39th for infant mortality, 43rd for adult female mortality, 42nd for adult male mortality, and 36th for life expectancy.

We are exposed to periodic, heated public wrangling over health care, but if you listen carefully, you’ll notice that the debate is never about either health or care; it is all about money and funding. The question you and I would consider of most vital importance—What can be done to help people stay healthy?—is never discussed, even though it seems like the most practical and intelligent solution to the health-care crisis.

This was Maharishi’s view.

“To build more hospitals to alleviate sickness and suffering for people who have already fallen ill is a laudable act of charity,” he said, but “it is infinitely more important to find ways and means of preventing people from falling sick and of ensuring that they will always enjoy good health.” It is always beneficial, in the words of an old proverb, to “avert the danger that has not yet come.”

During a press conference in 2004, an American reporter asked Maharishi what he thought about the high cost of health care and the fact that many people couldn’t afford it. Immediately Maharishi shot back:

“It is sickness that costs money, not health. To be healthy, one has to be regular in the awareness of one’s own immortality of consciousness within himself. He does not need money. Money is needed when people fall sick, and more money is needed when the medicines are not able to cure the sicknesses. And more money and more money . . . any amount of money can be spent, but if prevention is not instituted, there is no hope for the people to be healthy.”

“Medicine traditionally stands on two pillars: prevention and cure,” Harvard Medical School’s Alexander Leaf, M.D., wrote in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. “For the past century, the profession has rallied almost exclusively under the banner of curative medicine.”

This is especially true in the United States, which allots just 2 to 3 percent of its health-care budget to prevention. According to Dr. David Satcher, a former Surgeon General, and Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), prevention is “undervalued and poorly supported in our health system. . . . We spend well over 90 percent of our national health budget treating diseases and complications— many of which could have been prevented in the first place.”

Even the meager sums allotted for “prevention” usually involve testing or “screening” (for example, mammograms or blood workups), often at considerable expense. If you think about it, it’s clear that these do not prevent illness; they merely let you know whether you have something wrong with you. At best, they can catch a problem in its early stages and try to prevent it from getting worse.

Real prevention is entirely different. It is a way of life designed to promote good health and thereby prevent illness from arising. Whether self-chosen or worked out in collaboration with a knowledgeable physician, it includes practical, personalized guidelines for diet, exercise, rest, “stress management,” and whatever you need to live a healthy life, according to your specific needs, and your particular constitution and life circumstances. Conscientious physicians often do take a few minutes to urge their patients to lose weight, quit smoking, and get up off the couch, but much more than that they really cannot do in the limited time they have with each patient.

REDUCING HEALTH-CARE COSTS
Several studies on medical-care usage in the United States and Canada have found dramatically reduced hospitalization and outpatient physician visits by people practicing TM. This is true for people of all ages, but especially for older individuals. At a time when healthcare costs are rising and a large portion of the population is moving into the later years of life, this is surely one of the most significant results of TM, for individuals and for society.

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This past week the front page of the Health section of the Wall Street Journal, America’s most read newspaper, featured a story affirming meditation’s move into mainstream American healthcare. The article featured statements by doctors at some of America’s leading hospitals talking about how meditation and other mind-body therapies are being worked into our country’s primary-care settings.

The article, titled, Doctor’s Orders: 20 Minutes of Meditation Twice a Day, noted that doctors are increasingly recommending daily meditation for stress-related conditions, including, insomnia, high blood pressure, chronic pain, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, panic or anxiety disorders, brain injuries, and for general health maintenance.

Excerpts from this April 16th Wall Street Journal article:

“Integrative medicine programs including meditation are increasingly showing up at hospitals and clinics across the country. Recent research has found that meditation can lower blood pressure and help patients with chronic illness cope with pain and depression. In a study published last year, meditation sharply reduced the risk of heart attack or stroke among a group of African-Americans with heart disease….

“In a study published last year in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, African-Americans with heart disease who practiced Transcendental Meditation regularly were 48% less likely to have a heart attack or stroke, or to die, than those who attended a health-education class. Among the meditation group, there were 20 such occurrences, compared with 32 in the control group. The study, which ran for more than five years, involved about 200 people.

“Recent research found that meditation can result in molecular changes affecting the length of telomeres, a protective covering at the end of chromosomes that gets shorter as people age. The study involved 40 family caregivers of dementia patients. Half of the participants meditated briefly on a daily basis and the other half listened to relaxing music for 12 minutes a day. The eight-week study found that people who meditated showed a 43% improvement in telomerase activity, an enzyme that regulates telomere length, compared with a 3.7% gain in the group listening to music. The participants meditating also showed improved mental and cognitive functioning and lower levels of depression compared with the control group. The pilot study was published in January in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

“Government-funded research also is exploring meditation’s effect on dieting and depression.”

David Lynch and Russell Brand joined forces to help bring the Transcendental Meditation technique to one million at-risk youth during the premiere of “Meditation, Creativity and Peace” at the Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum, in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 2. The documentary chronicles Lynch’s 16-country tour of European and Middle Eastern film schools in 2007 when he addressed tens of thousands of students about his creative process, filmmaking, and his 40-year practice of the Transcendental Meditation program.

“Proceeds from the global distribution of the documentary will be used to help students in the US and worldwide overcome traumatic stress, improve learning ability, and raise performance through Transcendental Meditation,” said Lynch. Brand, a four-year meditator, said that TM had helped him overcome his decades-long addiction to drugs and alcohol. “I have become a better human being through this meditation,” Brand said.

Lynch and Brand were joined onstage after the film by Bob Roth, executive director of the David Lynch Foundation, for a 20-minute question-and-answer session. Roth said 250,000 students have already learned to meditate, and that the Foundation is expanding its support to veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress, and to women and girls who have survived domestic abuse.

The Billy Wilder Theatre holds nearly 300 people, however more than 1,000 people unexpectedly showed up at the box office. Film buffs who were denied access to the theatre viewed the documentary in an overflow hall at the museum and on big outdoor screens hastily mounted in the museum courtyard. Other high-profile David Lynch Foundation supporters include Dr. Mehmet Oz, Ellen DeGeneres, Jerry Seinfeld, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hugh Jackman, Katy Perry, Martin Scorsese, Naomi Watts, and Laura Dern.

Click on the video link below to watch a trailer of this new documentary, Meditation, Creativity and Peace.

Click on the link below to watch a video from this Los Angeles event. This video features red carpet interviews with actor Matt Bomer, actress Maya Stojan, actor/producer Nick Zano, and comedian Russell Brand.

Throughout his more than fifty years of teaching the Transcendental Meditation technique, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi dedicated much of his time and efforts on promoting the understanding that the development of the consciousness of the student is an essential part of achieving the highest ideals of education. Today thousands of schools throughout the world, based on hundreds of scientific studies showing the wide range of benefits that TM practice provides to students, have incorporated “the Quiet Time/TM program” into school curriculum.

In the video below, Maharishi speaks about the vital importance of developing the knower at a national meeting of the American Association of Higher Education. This lecture took place in Houston, Texas, in March 1973.

Maharishi:

“There are two sides to knowledge: the object of knowledge and the subject of knowledge, the knower. What present education provides is the knowledge of the object. What it misses is the knowledge of the subject, the knowledge of the knower.

The stream of knowledge has two banks: on one side the object, on one side the knower. With these two points of reference, the knower and the object, the first point of reference is the knower. Very important because we know knowledge is as the knower is. When the mind is dull, when the knower is sleepy, the knowledge is different than what it is when one is wide awake, fresh in the morning. The perception is different, the understanding is different, the emotions are different.

Knowledge is different in different states of consciousness. It’s very clear. We know it from our own experience.

What education provides is knowledge of physical values—physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy. Different disciplines are there to provide information about different fields of life. Everything is right—nothing is wrong there. What is not provided is the knowledge of the knower.

Without the knowledge of the knower, when the knower is in ignorance about himself, the whole structure of knowledge is, as if, baseless.

The foundation of knowledge is the consciousness of the knower—is the knower. But if the knower is in dark—the knower doesn’t know himself—then it is very obvious that the whole structure of knowledge, the whole field of knowledge has no basis to it. Such baseless knowledge can only be non-fulfilling.

Knowledge provided by present education is non-fulfilling. It has its great values but values are on the objective level of life, and values are missing on the subjective value of life. The individual is not fulfilled—yet the blessings of education, the blessings of knowledge, promote progress in the objective field of life. So, there is progress, there is satisfaction in whatever field education is expert. Education is expert in providing knowledge about the object and therefore there is progress in the objective field. The education does not touch the field of the subject, and therefore the field of the subject—the field of the knower—remains out of knowledge. It’s now high time that we provide the knowledge of the knower along with the knowledge of all disciplines.”

The video below shows some of the many schools throughout the world that are now offering “Consciousness-Based Education” where the daily practice the Transcendental Meditation program is part of the curriculum.

TM in San Francisco Schools Improves Learning and Behavior
http://www.tm.org/blog/video/tm-in-san-francisco-schools/

Combating poverty and exceeding expectations: LA school students benefit from TM
http://www.tm.org/blog/students/la-school/

Norwich University Studies the Benefits of TM on Cadets
http://www.tm.org/blog/research/norwich-university-studies-benefits-of-tm/

Leading Art College Offers TM to Develop Creativity
http://www.tm.org/blog/students/tm-develops-creativity-in-art-students/

TM Becomes Integral Part of Buddhist School in Thailand
http://www.tm.org/blog/students/tm-becomes-integral-part-of-buddhist-school-in-thailand/

Fairfield, Iowa, might be surrounded by cornfields, farmhouses, silos, and barns, but it’s definitely not your average Midwestern town. It’s the home of Maharishi University of Management (MUM)—one of the reasons Smithsonian magazine dubbed the town of 10,000 one of “The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2013” in their April 2013 issue.

MUM has come a long way since the summer of 1974, when a long line of yellow buses pulled into Fairfield, full of young Transcendental Meditation practitioners determined to build a university based on the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

“The Maharishi University of Management now offers B.A.’s in 13 fields, among them Vedic science and sustainable living. With students riding bikes and plugged into iPods, it looks like any other college campus, except for twin gold-domed buildings where practitioners gather to meditate twice a day.

“Fairfield could stand as a case study from The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida’s book on the link between educated populations and economic development. Fairfield got the one when the college opened its golden domes, drawing accomplished people who saw its sweetness; it got the other when they started dreaming up ways to stay. ‘Everyone who arrived had to reinvent themselves to survive,’ said mayor (and meditator) Ed Malloy.”

Indeed, innovation is one of the biggest hallmarks of Fairfield. From dot-coms to art galleries, organic dairies, art movie houses, and the town’s solar-powered radio station, KRUU-FM, Fairfield is a hive of entrepreneurial activity.

There’s no shortage of creativity on tap in this town, and the award-winning Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment (MSAE) has it in spades. Like MUM, Maharishi School was founded on principles of Consciousness-Based^SM education, which combines rigorous academics with a unique curriculum that connects each part of knowledge to the entire subject and the deepest level of themselves.

“The fact is Consciousness-Based education produces unprecedented educational outcomes—in academics, in the arts, in creative problem solving, in sports, and in the development of good citizenship,” says Ashley Deans, Director at MSAE. “For example, here at Maharishi School Upper School grades consistently score in the top one percent on national standardized tests, and the School has won over 100 state, national, and international championships in the past decade.”

In addition to a traditional academic curriculum, both Maharishi School and Maharishi University offer education in environmental sustainability and the harmonious building principles of Maharishi VedicSM architecture. Walk through Fairfield, and you’ll see numerous examples of residences and professional buildings designed according with these parameters in mind.

This tiny town truly is a community like no other! To learn more, read the full Smithsonian article.

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You can get a special experience of this “consciousness-based” community by visiting this summer during Maharishi University of Management’s “Experience the Self” course. For information, go to:

http://www.experiencetheself.org

A first-of-its-kind University of Pennsylvania study found that the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique can help improve vitality and other quality-of-life factors in patients with the HIV virus.

The six-month, randomized controlled trial involved 22 subjects and compared the TM technique with a health education control. Findings were published online in the journal AIDS Care: Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV. The TM group was found to have a significant improvement in health-related quality of life in areas such as the ability to be physically and socially active, pain, general mental health, vitality, and general health. The study group also had improved physical, social, and emotional wellbeing.

A range of physiological measures, such as the hormone cortisol, which is associated with stress, and T-cell count, which is a measure of immune function, found that in every case the TM group had better outcomes than the control group, though the results didn’t achieve statistical significance.

Stress has been implicated in the pathogenesis and progression of HIV/AIDS

Over the past 50 years, researchers have become increasingly interested in how stress causes and/or contributes to disease. Many scientists believe there are two likely pathways. One is behavioral—people under stress sleep poorly and are less likely to exercise; they adopt poor eating habits, smoke more and don’t comply with medical treatment. The second is physiological—stress also triggers a response by the body’s endocrine systems, which release hormones like cortisol that influence multiple other biological systems, including the immune system.

Dr. Sheldon Cohen

Since 2000 results of research on the relationship between stress and HIV/AIDS have consistently demonstrated a link between stress and the progression of AIDS, according to Carnegie Mellon University psychologist Sheldon Cohen. Dr. Cohen’ research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that the impact of stress may have become more pronounced in AIDS patients in recent years because of the complex and demanding drug regimen that patients now undergo. He said stress may tax their ability to keep up with their treatment. The researchers also noted that changes in the autonomic nervous system caused by stress may also contribute to disease progression by influencing the replication of the HIV virus.

The current research at the University of Pennsylvania on the effects of the Transcendental Meditation program on those with AIDS was based on the extensive body of research showing the daily practice of TM technique reduces stress levels.

Dr. Sumedha Chhatre of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for AIDS research was the study’s lead author. Dr. David Metzger, Director of the HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Division of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry, was the principal investigator.

“This is the first study to explore application of TM in community dwelling adults with HIV and adds to the existing evidence regarding association between stress and outcomes,” said Dr. Sumedha Chhatre.

The researchers think that the positive results of this initial study will lead to further research involving larger-scale, longer-term studies.

The study was funded by a grant from the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for AIDS Research (CFAR).

Shortly after graduating with a degree in philosophy, George Ellis got a phone call from the Dean of Fine Arts at Sacramento City College. “I read your application,” the Dean said, “and we cannot find anyone to go to Folsom Prison and teach Philosophy, and you are our last hope.”

George Ellis

George did need a job, so he agreed to teach at Folsom, one of the most intense high security correctional facilities in America. What he didn’t know was that this was the first step in a series of events that would dramatically change his life, and affect the lives of thousands over the next 25 years.

As it turns out, George brought another skill with him inside the walls of Folsom Prison. He was a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation program. In fact, in 1970 he had attended the first TM teacher training course in the United States, held in Estes Park, Colorado.

Folsom Prison

One day an inmate named Pat Corum asked George why he was so calm and happy, even while teaching inside the prison. When George told him that he practiced TM, Pat said he wanted to meditate too. So George went to the prison on his own time and taught Pat the TM technique. After his first meditation, he told George: “This is the first time in 13 and a half years I have felt relaxation and peace.”

Soon other inmates, seeing the positive changes in Pat Corum, wanted to learn TM. When George taught them, the next step of his journey had begun. He went on to teach the TM technique in correctional facilities in California, Vermont, South and Central America, Europe and Asia. In 1979, George’s first book was published: Inside Folsom Prison: Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program.

Finding the Silence Within

The idea for his second book, A Symphony of Silence: An Enlightened Vision, arose following a meeting with Maharishi in 1986, and re-emerged in 2007. George completed the book in 2012, and it’s now available in English and Spanish, with 10 more translations on the way.

Dominique Ellis with Mayan Indian child

A Symphony of Silence is a wonderful 526-page anthology of interviews, articles, and personal stories. There are interviews with Grammy Award-winning musician Paul Horn, businesswoman and philanthropist Susan Gore, scientist David Orme-Johnson, professor of philosophy Jonathan Shear, and attorney Candace Martin.

There are articles by professor of religion Evan Finkelstein, former Deputy Attorney General for the State of Arkansas, Arthur John Anderson, and professor of literature Rhoda Orme-Johnson. The personal stories were written by men and women whose lives were touched by Maharishi’s knowledge and their practice of the TM technique.

Debby & Jerry Jarvis with Maharishi

The book includes a chapter by Jerry Jarvis, who first met Maharishi in 1961 and for two decades served as National Leader for the TM organization in the United States. “To read this book, to listen to this symphony, is to enjoy the infinite melodies of the Song of Life,” says Jerry. “This collection compiled by George Ellis, this symphony of silence, allows us to more deeply and joyously appreciate the great teaching of life revived by Maharishi.”

As the title suggests, the fundamental message is that there is an inner silence available to each and every one of us. That silence is the source of all our thoughts, actions, and achievements in life, and it is waiting for us to discover it at the quietest level of our own mind.

What we need is a reliable procedure to access that inner silence on a daily basis. And then we need to bring that silence out so we can enjoy it even when we’re in dynamic activity. Fortunately, these needs are fulfilled through Maharishi’s gift of the Transcendental Meditation technique, which he brought out from the silence of the Himalayas in India to share with the world.

As George says in his Closing Reflections: “This book emphasizes that Transcendental Consciousness is within everyone, and the inner stillness of unbounded pure consciousness is constantly emerging to embrace our life—the experience whispers that the inner beauty is our birthright. A Symphony of Silence is offering an insight, an inspiration, a reminder of who we are, and a simple method to enhance the natural evolution of life toward enlightenment.”

Just as a symphony is a stirring and harmonious combination of diverse instruments, George’s book is an evocative and well-composed collection of stories about Maharishi and the wide range of benefits to be gained from the Transcendental Meditation technique.

For George, this book is not the definitive story of Maharishi’s life, but rather a heart-felt tribute and celebration of how Maharishi’s wisdom has transformed the lives of so many people around the world.

Each contributor to A Symphony of Silence has experienced the inner stillness of Transcendental Consciousness and shares their experience with us from his or her unique perspective. Each story inspires us to discover, or rediscover, our own inner silence and live our lives more fully every day.

You can purchase A Symphony of Silence from Maharishi University of Management Press by clicking here.

You can also get the Kindle edition at Amazon.com.

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Rolf Erickson is a professional writer and editor-in-chief of Enlightenment: The Transcendental Meditation Magazine. He and his wife Renee teach the TM program in Portland, Oregon.