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What Is Transcendental Meditation? 

Tanscendental Meditation (TM) is a meditation technique that is practiced daily for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening while sitting comfortably with your eyes closed. It requires neither specific beliefs nor adoption of a particular lifestyle. Transcendental Meditation was introduced by a great man out of the Himalayas, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. His teachings of TM was referred as ”one solution to all problems,” and by 1958, Maharishi began to change the trend of time. Because TM’s approach is so simple, natural, and universal, it attracted million of people worldwide. Maharishi, unfolded TM as “Vedic Science.”  In Sanskrit, India’s native tongue, the word Veda means “knowledge” of the most comprehensive kind - it is knowledge about the totality of nature’s functioning, from its unmanifest source through all its manifestations. There is a seven-step procedure to follow, and Maharishi meditation centers are in all major cities in the world today. I myself, started Transcendental Meditation in 1992, and found it to be the pivotal point in my life. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s Science of Being and Art of Living: Transcendental Meditation was the book that catapulted the start of my journey and into awareness. Maharishi is acknowledged as the greatest teacher of enlightenment of our time.

Reasons You Should Learn Transcendental Meditation

• It is easy and very enjoyable to anyone of all ages, cultures, and educational backgrounds.
• The benefits are immediate and you will notice positive changes within the first days or weeks.
• Clarity is deepened offering full mental awareness which enhances creativity and purpose.
• Better health in relieving daily stress, irritability, and increases your energy and vitality.
• A peaceful state of mind which reduces stress levels, allowing one to manage daily lives on an optimal plane, and radiates an influence of harmony to your surroundings.

“Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone. By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every individual and every society to its full dignity, in which problems are absent and perfect health, happiness, and a rapid pace of progress are the natural features of life.”

-Maharishi  Mahesh Yogi  Founder of Transcendental Meditation, Teacher of Enlightenment (1917-2008)

“Meditation helps you find fulfilment in life, helps you to live life to the fullest. I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it’s great. Maharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.”

-George Harrison  Musician, Producer and Composer, member of The Beatles (1943-2001)

“When I started meditating I had a real anger in me, and I would take this anger out on my first wife. Two weeks after I started meditating, this anger lifted.”

-David Lynch  Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Composer, Painter, husband to Peggy Lynch (1946-)

“Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.”

-Sting  Musician, Songwriter, Producer, Actor, formally The Police (1951-)

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”

-Voltaire  French Writer, Essayist, Deist, Philosopher (1694-1778)

“Sleep is the best meditation.”

-Dalai Lama  Spiritual and Political Leader of Tibetan People (1935-)

“Basically, I came to yoga and meditation so I could undo some of my past, and I believe that you can do that.”

-Mariel Hemingway  Nominated American Actress, Author, Granddaughter to Ernest Hemingway, Sister to Margaux Hemingway (1961-)

“I am a practicing Buddhist. In Buddhism there are words you can say… as you say the words with rhythm, the conscious tells the subconscious.”

-Tina Turner  Singer, Songwriter, Dancer, Actress (1939-)