Transcendental Meditation, TM

Many people are seeking a reliable way to become more creative, to cope with stress, and to maintain peak mental and physical performance. They also want to have the energy and inner resources to enjoy their personal and professional lives to the full.

The Transcendental Meditation Programme is ideally suited to fulfilling these needs. It brings a deep inner tranquillity that is both relaxing and revitalising. It dissolves stress and fatigue, and gives access to a hitherto untapped potential of creativity, energy, and intelligence.

A few minutes of Transcendental Meditation each day brings a wide range of practical benefits - a clearer and more creative mind, increased effectiveness, improved health, broader awareness, greater happiness, and more rewarding relationships. Transcendental Meditation unfolds the inner resources needed to achieve the highest goals in life.

Practised throughout the world
Transcendental Meditation is practised by millions of people throughout the world: government leaders, doctors, scientists, executives of large and small companies, sports stars, pilots, actors, businessmen and women, educators, students, and clergy. Doctors recommend it. Leading companies have introduced it because it is practical and cost-effective. It requires no belief, change in life-style or adoption of any philosophy.

Unique scientifically validated benefits
Transcendental Meditation is distinct from other types of relaxation and personal development. Scientists have verified its benefits in more than 500 scientific studies which have been conducted at 214 independent universities and research institutes, and published in many major scientific journals. The research confirms that Transcendental Meditation is unique both in terms of the physiological changes brought about during the technique, and in the range and magnitude of its benefits.

How Transcendental Meditation works
Transcendental Meditation allows the activity of thinking to become increasingly quiet and settled. This effortless process continues until the mind transcends the finest impulse of thought and experiences Transcendental Consciousness, the silent reservoir of creativity and energy at the basis of the thinking process. Here the mind is open to its own inner nature, and is at its most alert, most creative, and most orderly. Simultaneously the body becomes deeply rested. This dissolves stress and tension and allows more inner creative potential to be expressed.

Achieve more with less effort
Transcendental Meditation is an invaluable tool for busy executives and professionals. With increased energy comes the ability to achieve more. Greater calmness and confidence take the pressure and tension from responsibility. Clearer thinking, increased alertness and creativity, and more reliable intuition all contribute to better decisions with fewer mistakes. Transcendental Meditation develops the inner stability that allows people to be more flexible and innovative in the face of the increasing pace of change. Other benefits for business include improvements in communication, teamwork, and leadership.

Investing in the creativity and health of personnel makes good business sense. Many companies on introducing Transcendental Meditation have found that the company profits from the improvement in its management and work-force. Results have included greater efficiency and productivity, and reduced costs due to illness, absenteeism and poor communication.

In Japan, a major study by the Ministry of Labour found significant improvements in physical and mental health among those practising Transcendental Meditation.

Maximising creative potential
According to psychologists we use only a tiny fraction of our mental potential: our mind is our most under-utilised resource. Transcendental Meditation expands the conscious capacity of the mind. Brain functioning becomes more orderly, displaying a style of activity associated with a relaxed state of alertness. The activity of the left and right hemispheres of the brain becomes more integrated while there is an increase in cerebral blood flow. Creativity and intelligence increase and all aspects of mental performance improve.

Prevention of illness
Large scale studies have shown that people who practise Transcendental Meditation require less than half as much medical treatment as matched controls, with an even greater difference in older age groups. As a result, insurance companies in the USA, Holland, and Germany have offered lower premiums to people using Transcendental Meditation. In Great Britain the technique is available under the National Health Service.

Many doctors believe that Transcendental Meditation can provide the prevention strategy to create a healthier society. Large studies of health insurance companies have found that people practising Transcendental Meditation, in all age groups combined, display a 50% reduction in both in-patient and out-patient medical care utilisation. Hospitalisation is 80% lower for heart disease and 55% lower for cancer. And what is most remarkable, meditators over 45 years old have approximately 70% fewer medical problems than others in their age group.

Peak performance and slowing the ageing process
Transcendental Meditation also promotes a more positive quality of health. Many leading athletes have taken it up because it improves reaction times, mind-body co-ordination, and performance. These and other improvements contrast with the deterioration which comes about with ageing. Studies on ageing have shown that meditators performed as if they were 12 years younger than their actual age. Another carefully controlled study of elderly subjects (average age 81) found that Transcendental Meditation brought both a longer and a better quality of life.

Improved relationships at home and at work
Transcendental Meditation contributes to more successful and more fulfilling relationships in many different ways. It reduces stress and tension - a major barrier to good communication. It develops a more mature and tolerant personality. It develops broader awareness, greater happiness, and refined feelings and emotions. All these result in a more positive and warm personality capable of enjoying deeper relationships and a richer personal life. The few minutes spent every day taking care of oneself by practising Transcendental Meditation increases the capacity to respond to the needs of family, friends and colleagues.

There is a fundamental principle of life found in every culture throughout history - 'As you sow, so shall you reap'. It is always true that if we are more positive and open towards others, they reciprocate by becoming more open and positive towards us. In this way, the inner development brought about by Transcendental Meditation is reflected in more rewarding relationships of every type - business, family or social.

Even children can learn
In many countries schools have introduced Transcendental Meditation, adding an important new dimension to education. As well as gaining the usual knowledge and skills, children unfold their latent inner potential, and as a result their whole personality blossoms. They perform better, while also gaining relief from the stress and pressure now so common in school life.

Reduced social stress
Recent research has shown Transcendental Meditation to be the most effective way of dealing with drug, alcohol, and tobacco abuse. It has been taught in prisons in many countries, reducing the levels of stress, violence, and rule infractions, as well as the rate at which prisoners return to prison after release.

Reduced crime
A further important discovery has been that, as well as reducing stress and negativity in individuals, Transcendental Meditation also reduces the overall level of stress in society. Many research studies have found that just one per cent of a population practising Transcendental Meditation is sufficient to bring about a significant and measurable reduction in crime, sickness and accidents.

Field effect
The explanation given by scientists is that consciousness is a field similar to the other fields known in physics, such as electro-magnetism and gravity. The coherence in brain functioning generated by Transcendental Meditation spreads through the field, in the same way that light radiates from a light bulb, increasing positivity in collective consciousness and reducing stress and crime. Scientists have named this field effect the Maharishi Effect, after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who predicted it over 30 years ago.

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