The Transcendental Meditation* technique Your personalized journey to inner peace.
The TM* technique is a simple way to dissolve stress and unfold your full potential in life. Anyone can do it, sitting with eyes closed for 20 minutes twice a day.
What makes the Transcendental Meditation technique unique?
• Personalized one-on-one instruction by a certified TM teacher.
• The authentic TM technique was revived by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from a tradition that is thousands of years old.
• 170 TM Centers in the US; Follow-up program at centers worldwide
• A satisfaction guarantee
• A lifetime of benefits proven by over 380 original, peer-reviewed, published scientific studies, including: improved brain function, creativity, & academic performance; better sleep; reduced anxiety and stress; cortisol reduced by 30%; 48% lower risk of heart attack or stroke; 56% decrease in hospitalizations.
What does the TM technique actually do?
The TM technique provides profoundly deep rest to both mind and body. This rest dissolves stress in the nervous system and improves how the brain functions. After just a few minutes of TM practice, people typically feel more refreshed, clear-minded and ready for action.
Over time, Consciousness develops and we enjoy greater success and happiness in life. TM practitioners report inner peace, more creativity, better health, better relationships.
Meditators describe their experience with the TM technique
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Common questions
TM is taught by a non-profit organization committed to making TM’s benefits available to as many people as possible. To honor this mission, the TM course fee is income-based and can be paid in installments.
In addition, with generous donations, we make scholarships available to first responders, veterans, and those in need of financial assistance.
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Imagine trying to learn a musical instrument or sport. You know how valuable it is for a good teacher to show you the proper technique. Similarly, individualized instruction by certified TM teachers ensures a personal and intuitive learning experience, allowing students to learn the technique with ease and precision, and to establish a lasting TM practice. There is no other way to learn the authentic TM technique — and there is no evidence that anything else provides the full range of benefits documented in the published research on TM.
The TM technique allows your mind to naturally transcend, or easily settle inward, to quieter and quieter levels of thought, until you experience the most silent and peaceful level of your own awareness.
No problem at all. Unlike other forms of meditation, the TM technique involves no concentration, no control of the mind, no contemplation, no monitoring of thoughts. It is completely effortless.
The TM technique's effectiveness is the same whether you believe it will work or are completely skeptical. That's because it automatically and effortlessly allows your active thinking mind to settle down to a state of deep inner calm.
In mindfulness meditation you monitor your thoughts, feelings, breathing, and bodily sensations, without judging them. This keeps your mind engaged on the active level of thinking, as do many other forms of meditation. What we don’t often realize is that, beneath the active surface, the mind already has a deep level of calm, like the settled depth of the ocean beneath the waves. The Transcendental Meditation technique facilitates transcending – effortlessly opening our awareness to this deeper, peaceful level of the mind.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, whose life's work was to revive and demystify the timeless knowledge of meditation, and verify its effectiveness through the lens of modern science, began teaching Transcendental Meditation in the 1950s. After refining and systematizing the teaching of TM, Maharishi began a movement to make the technique available worldwide. He oversaw the training of thousands of teachers and established a non-profit foundation to preserve the authenticity of the TM technique for generations to come.