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Government leaders in England use TM technique to reduce stress, feel calmer, sleep better
By Mario Orsatti · 14 years ago
Acute stress and deep fatigue are common features in the lives of government leaders everywhere. These factors take a negative toll, impacting health and the quality of leadership. William Hague, the current Foreign Secretary in ...
TM & the effect of "ahimsa" in the Yoga Sutra
By Thomas Egenes Phd · 14 years ago
In the Yoga Sutras, the first of the eight limbs of yoga is called "yama". Yama has five aspects, beginning with ahimsa, which means "non-injury" or "non-violence". Mahatma Gandhi made ahimsa famous when he mobilized ...
Giving Your Mind Some Healthy Downtime
By Dr. Gary Kaplan · 14 years ago
Recently, much has been written about our new "plugged-in" society. A recent feature story in the New York Times highlighted the potential dangers to healthy brain functioning that can result from the incessant use of ...
The Yoga Sutras and Deep Meditation
By Thomas Egenes Phd · 14 years ago
While yoga is generally understood in America to be a diverse array of bending and stretching exercises that originated in India, the word yoga has a much wider connotation, and includes sitting with the eyes ...
How Meditation Techniques Compare -- Zen, Mindfulness, Transcendental Meditation and more
By Jeanne Ball · 14 years ago
Meditation shopping? Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Yet millions of Americans are seeking tools to turn within. As a nation we've tried to fix our problems with everything from psychotherapy and Prozac to positive thinking ...
New studies show reduced depression with Transcendental Meditation
By Mario Orsatti · 14 years ago
Two new studies have found that the Transcendental Meditation technique is an effective approach to reducing the symptoms of depression. The studies were presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine ...
Samadhi is the beginning, not the end of Yoga
By Neil Dickie · 14 years ago
This article is for yoga people—for the throngs who have re-discovered this ancient yet very sophisticated approach to exercise. Tens of millions have taken up yoga because it’s gentler and kinder to the body, yet ...
Supermodel Ali Stephens: modeling and meditation
By Dr. Keith Deboer · 14 years ago
Millions have seen her but few know her name. This is the ironic reality of the gifted, young, fashion supermodel Ali Stephens, who uses the Transcendental Meditation technique as a tool for success. In three ...
National Institutes of Health spotlights TM research
By Linda Mainquist · 14 years ago
A recent study found daily Transcendental Meditation practice helps young adults decrease psychological stress and increase coping ability, and for a group of students at high risk for developing hypertension, these changes also were associated ...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson "A state of transcendent wonder"
By Craig Person · 14 years ago
If 19th-century England had anything resembling a rock star, it was Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was one of the most popular and exciting poets of his era, with a riveting stage presence. He remains one ...
FREEDOM BEHIND BARS: Transforming lives of inmates and guards
By Bob Roth · 14 years ago
There are few experiences in life comparable to standing in front of a corrections officer at a maximum security prison with miles of barbed wire and massive walls and thick steel gates and then signing ...
Getting better with age: Clint Eastwood and Transcendental Meditation
By Mario Orsatti · 14 years ago
People who age well are an inspiration—especially for me since I just turned 60. Clint Eastwood is certainly a prime example. At 62-years-old, Mr. Eastwood won his first Oscar for the film, Unforgiven. Then, as ...