1. IT WORKS.
Whether you’re drawn to learn meditation for deep relaxation, enhanced mental performance, reduced stress and anxiety, greater happiness or inner peace, scientists have found that the Transcendental Meditation technique accomplishes all of this—and more.
"Among meditation techniques, TM is in a class by itself,” says Steele Belok, M.D., of Harvard Medical School. “TM provides deeper rest, more relief from stress, more health benefits and creates a positive state of mind better than any practice known to science."
Backed by forty years of scientific research.
Hundreds of scientific research studies have verified the Transcendental Meditation technique’s effectiveness for promoting health and personal growth—with more than 350 studies on it’s effects published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Government funded studies.
Over the past 50 years, the Transcendental Meditation program has been validated in the lives of millions around the world who have enjoyed the benefits of twice-daily practice. It’s effectiveness in the classroom has been demonstrated by 40 years of in-school programs—with more than 100,000 schoolchildren around the world now practicing the TM technique during classroom Quiet-Time.
2. DOCTOR RECOMMENDED: “The most effective health and wellness program there is.”
The Transcendental Meditation technique provides a powerful, revitalizing, natural state of relaxation. Doctors say the experience of the TM technique is the opposite of stress, and therefore has the opposite effects—reducing wear and tear on the system and promoting youthfulness and vitality. That’s why medical researchers have found the TM program effective for people with hypertension, anxiety, depression and other stress related disorders.
Says Dr. James Anderson, researcher and Professor of Medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine: "Adding Transcendental Meditation is about equivalent to adding a second hypertensive agent to one's current regiment, only safer and less troublesome."
César Molina, M.D., F.A.C.C., Medical Director of the South Asian Heart Center, El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, CA.: “This simple mental technique affects our whole physiology. Extensive research published in peer-reviewed medical journals shows that TM markedly improves overall health. I consider TM to be the best technique for prevention.”
Science reveals that all meditation practices are not the same.
When you hear about scientific studies verifying health benefits of the Transcendental Meditation program, it doesn’t mean that all forms of meditation will produce these results. “According to science, the TM technique provides a state of rest much deeper than other meditation or relaxation techniques,” says Vernon Barnes, Ph.D., medical researcher at University of Georgia College of Medicine. “We have found that no other practice provides the TM technique’s wide range of benefits for mind, body and relationships.”
From prevention of illness…
During the deep rest experienced through the Transcendental Meditation technique, profound rejuvenation and repair of the physiology occurs. Research studies show that the TM technique markedly reduces incidents of every major disease.
…to anti-aging.
People who’ve been practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique for five years or more have been found to have a biological age averaging 12 years younger than their chronological age—and the TM technique is known to reduce every major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease.
Kulreet Chaudary, M.D., Medical Director of Neurology at San Diego’s Scripps Memorial Hospital: “The Transcendental Meditation technique has been shown to be the most effective health and wellness program there is. Nothing we know of is as effective for promoting good health and reducing health-care utilization and medical expenses.”
3. IMPROVE BRAIN FUNCTIONING
Everything good about the brain depends on it’s coherent, orderly functioning. The meditative state experienced during the Transcendental Meditation technique creates what scientists call “global EEG coherence”—orderliness and integration throughout all areas of the brain.
For people of all ages, the Transcendental Meditation technique increases the brain’s orderly functioning in daily life.
William Stixrud, Ph.D., Clinical neuropsychologist, adjunct faculty at the Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.: “TM provides the experience of inner wakefulness, and research shows that this experience creates coherence and integration throughout the brain—making the brain healthier, with the different parts functioning together better as a whole.”
Use more of your brain.
Experiencing this more orderly brain functioning twice daily through the Transcendental Meditation technique has been found to develop the brain holistically, resulting in growth of mental potential. Scientific studies on the TM technique have measured this psychological growth as:
• Higher IQ
• Increased creativity
• Improved memory
• Broader comprehension
• Faster reaction time
• More critical thinking
• Heightened awareness
Gary Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D., neurologist, New York University of School of Medicine: “The TM technique has been found to enliven the whole brain, including the brain’s executive centers responsible for higher judgment and discrimination—enhancing creativity and intelligence, improving memory and problem-solving abilities. No other mind-body practice has been shown to produce all of these results.”
4. IT'S A TIMELESS TECHNIQUE FOR TRANSCENDING.
There’s more to the Transcendental Meditation technique than mere relaxation. It’s not ‘meditation lite.’ It’s a technique for transcending—the natural process of the mind settling inward, beyond thinking, to experience the deepest, most settled state of the mind, the field of pure awareness. This silent, peaceful state of restful alertness fully recharges your mind and body.
Restoring a natural, universal experience.
The process of transcending has been valued throughout time as the key to unfolding life’s full potential. Virtually every cultural tradition in the world contains records and descriptions of the experience of transcending and its benefit to daily life. Great artists, writers and scholars have sung its glory throughout the ages.
Yet the experience of transcending has remained, for the most part, elusive and not well understood. Why? Because a reliable and systematic means to experience the transcendental state wasn’t available to the whole society…until Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced the Transcendental Meditation technique.
Authentic—from a venerated tradition of knowledge.
The Transcendental Meditation program is a revival of correct meditation from an ancient, time-honored tradition of self-development. In the twentieth century, the great scientist of consciousness and teacher of meditation, Maharishi, restored the practice to its original effectiveness and made it available for everyone.
5. EASY TO LEARN, ENJOYABLE TO PRACTICE.
The Transcendental Meditation technique may be the easiest thing you’ll ever learn—in fact, it’s completely effortless. Anyone can learn it, and it doesn’t take years to master: new meditators report benefits right from the start. Scientific studies show that within the first two weeks of practice, brain function becomes more orderly and efficient both during and after meditation. Researchers have found that significant drops in stress levels, anxiety, pain thresholds and high blood pressure are common within a few months.
The Transcendental Meditation technique is enjoyable to practice, so you’ll look forward to your twice-daily meditation. But your day-to-day life is where you’ll most enjoy being a meditator—that’s where you experience the results.
6. LIFE BECOMES BLISSFUL.
The Transcendental Meditation technique directly accesses the limitless source of happiness, energy and intelligence within everyone.
The TM program’s many benefits add up to a life of greater happiness. Through daily TM practice, inner happiness starts spilling over into relationships, work, play—every aspect of life.
Your life becomes blissful. The way it’s supposed to be.
Nancy Landorf, M.D., Specialist in Integrative Medicine: "TM not only reduces stress and anxiety, it helps unfold the inner bliss and happiness that is every human's birthright. My patients who meditate frequently report that the "small stuff"—and sometimes the "big stuff"—no longer bothers them. I see them becoming more spontaneous and friendly and enjoying their lives more. TM is my favorite prescription to write."
7. IT'S A TECHNIQUE, PURE AND SIMPLE.
This is a technique, not a philosophy, way of life or religion. You can practice it and go about your work—or play—without having to think about being "mindful" or "present in the moment," because with the TM technique, awareness grows spontaneously. Life gets more fulfilling everyday—inside and out.
Yes. It’s for everyone.
Because it’s a technique and not a belief system, TM practice is for everyone who wants to enjoy life more. Even if you’re satisfied with your life, through the Transcendental Meditation technique your capacity to enjoy will naturally increase and continue to grow.
Yes. You can meditate anywhere.
Yes. It works for everyone—children, students, businesspeople, artists, clergy, retirees—everyone.
8. THE ULTIMATE COURSE:
The course of instruction in the Transcendental Meditation technique accomplishes in just a few days what many students of meditation spend a lifetime trying to master: transcending. Because the TM technique is simple, natural and effective, when you finish the TM course you’ll be an expert meditator—in possession of an effortless technique for accessing your inner reserves of peace, creativity and intelligence.
What you get:
The TM technique is taught through seven-steps (10-12 hours) over a few days. You receive private instruction adjusted to your individual needs, and comprehensive knowledge to verify your experience and success. Class topics include: (or this can be a pop up: Class topics)
• How to meditate easily and correctly for maximum benefit
• What happens in mind and body during meditation
• The mechanics of transcending
• Experiencing the source of thought
• What happens over time as awareness
grows and your creative potential unfolds
• What is enlightenment?
Ongoing follow-up and support:
The Transcendental Meditation technique comes with extensive follow-up and support to ensure your maximum progress:
• One-on-one support, as needed, with experienced teachers.
• Optional advanced classes so that your understanding can grow with your personal experience.
The continuing classes feature masterful presentations on DVD by Maharishi and renowned quantum physicist Dr. John Hagelin, along with other scientists, artists and educators, speaking about meditation, creativity, health, brain research and the development of full human potential.
This ongoing program of knowledge and personal guidance is available to everyone who learns the TM program—for the rest of your life and at no further charge following the initial course of instruction.
Non-profit, educational organization.
The Transcendental Meditation program is made available through a worldwide non-profit, tax-exempt educational organization that has been training certified instructors for over 40 years, maintaining the TM technique’s effectiveness through systematic, standardized teaching procedures.
Your tuition helps others learn.
All TM course fees go to sustain the teachers and support the organization’s teaching activities—in the US and around the world.
Your tuition helps fund meditation programs in inner city schools and places such as Brazil, South Africa and Thailand, where the Transcendental Meditation technique is taught at no charge through grants and scholarships.
When you learn the Transcendental Meditation technique, you help bring the benefits of meditation to people everywhere.
Whether you’re drawn to learn meditation for deep relaxation, enhanced mental performance, reduced stress and anxiety, greater happiness or inner peace, scientists have found that the Transcendental Meditation technique accomplishes all of this—and more.
"Among meditation techniques, TM is in a class by itself,” says Steele Belok, M.D., of Harvard Medical School. “TM provides deeper rest, more relief from stress, more health benefits and creates a positive state of mind better than any practice known to science."
Backed by forty years of scientific research.
Hundreds of scientific research studies have verified the Transcendental Meditation technique’s effectiveness for promoting health and personal growth—with more than 350 studies on it’s effects published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Government funded studies.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $24 million for scientists to study the TM technique’s benefits for improved brain functioning and cardiovascular health.
Learned by 5 million people.
Learned by 5 million people.
Over the past 50 years, the Transcendental Meditation program has been validated in the lives of millions around the world who have enjoyed the benefits of twice-daily practice. It’s effectiveness in the classroom has been demonstrated by 40 years of in-school programs—with more than 100,000 schoolchildren around the world now practicing the TM technique during classroom Quiet-Time.
2. DOCTOR RECOMMENDED: “The most effective health and wellness program there is.”
The Transcendental Meditation technique provides a powerful, revitalizing, natural state of relaxation. Doctors say the experience of the TM technique is the opposite of stress, and therefore has the opposite effects—reducing wear and tear on the system and promoting youthfulness and vitality. That’s why medical researchers have found the TM program effective for people with hypertension, anxiety, depression and other stress related disorders.
Says Dr. James Anderson, researcher and Professor of Medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine: "Adding Transcendental Meditation is about equivalent to adding a second hypertensive agent to one's current regiment, only safer and less troublesome."
César Molina, M.D., F.A.C.C., Medical Director of the South Asian Heart Center, El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, CA.: “This simple mental technique affects our whole physiology. Extensive research published in peer-reviewed medical journals shows that TM markedly improves overall health. I consider TM to be the best technique for prevention.”
Science reveals that all meditation practices are not the same.
When you hear about scientific studies verifying health benefits of the Transcendental Meditation program, it doesn’t mean that all forms of meditation will produce these results. “According to science, the TM technique provides a state of rest much deeper than other meditation or relaxation techniques,” says Vernon Barnes, Ph.D., medical researcher at University of Georgia College of Medicine. “We have found that no other practice provides the TM technique’s wide range of benefits for mind, body and relationships.”
From prevention of illness…
During the deep rest experienced through the Transcendental Meditation technique, profound rejuvenation and repair of the physiology occurs. Research studies show that the TM technique markedly reduces incidents of every major disease.
…to anti-aging.
People who’ve been practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique for five years or more have been found to have a biological age averaging 12 years younger than their chronological age—and the TM technique is known to reduce every major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease.
Kulreet Chaudary, M.D., Medical Director of Neurology at San Diego’s Scripps Memorial Hospital: “The Transcendental Meditation technique has been shown to be the most effective health and wellness program there is. Nothing we know of is as effective for promoting good health and reducing health-care utilization and medical expenses.”
3. IMPROVE BRAIN FUNCTIONING
Everything good about the brain depends on it’s coherent, orderly functioning. The meditative state experienced during the Transcendental Meditation technique creates what scientists call “global EEG coherence”—orderliness and integration throughout all areas of the brain.
For people of all ages, the Transcendental Meditation technique increases the brain’s orderly functioning in daily life.
William Stixrud, Ph.D., Clinical neuropsychologist, adjunct faculty at the Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.: “TM provides the experience of inner wakefulness, and research shows that this experience creates coherence and integration throughout the brain—making the brain healthier, with the different parts functioning together better as a whole.”
Use more of your brain.
Experiencing this more orderly brain functioning twice daily through the Transcendental Meditation technique has been found to develop the brain holistically, resulting in growth of mental potential. Scientific studies on the TM technique have measured this psychological growth as:
• Higher IQ
• Increased creativity
• Improved memory
• Broader comprehension
• Faster reaction time
• More critical thinking
• Heightened awareness
Gary Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D., neurologist, New York University of School of Medicine: “The TM technique has been found to enliven the whole brain, including the brain’s executive centers responsible for higher judgment and discrimination—enhancing creativity and intelligence, improving memory and problem-solving abilities. No other mind-body practice has been shown to produce all of these results.”
4. IT'S A TIMELESS TECHNIQUE FOR TRANSCENDING.
There’s more to the Transcendental Meditation technique than mere relaxation. It’s not ‘meditation lite.’ It’s a technique for transcending—the natural process of the mind settling inward, beyond thinking, to experience the deepest, most settled state of the mind, the field of pure awareness. This silent, peaceful state of restful alertness fully recharges your mind and body.
Restoring a natural, universal experience.
The process of transcending has been valued throughout time as the key to unfolding life’s full potential. Virtually every cultural tradition in the world contains records and descriptions of the experience of transcending and its benefit to daily life. Great artists, writers and scholars have sung its glory throughout the ages.
Yet the experience of transcending has remained, for the most part, elusive and not well understood. Why? Because a reliable and systematic means to experience the transcendental state wasn’t available to the whole society…until Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced the Transcendental Meditation technique.
Authentic—from a venerated tradition of knowledge.
The Transcendental Meditation program is a revival of correct meditation from an ancient, time-honored tradition of self-development. In the twentieth century, the great scientist of consciousness and teacher of meditation, Maharishi, restored the practice to its original effectiveness and made it available for everyone.
5. EASY TO LEARN, ENJOYABLE TO PRACTICE.
The Transcendental Meditation technique may be the easiest thing you’ll ever learn—in fact, it’s completely effortless. Anyone can learn it, and it doesn’t take years to master: new meditators report benefits right from the start. Scientific studies show that within the first two weeks of practice, brain function becomes more orderly and efficient both during and after meditation. Researchers have found that significant drops in stress levels, anxiety, pain thresholds and high blood pressure are common within a few months.
The Transcendental Meditation technique is enjoyable to practice, so you’ll look forward to your twice-daily meditation. But your day-to-day life is where you’ll most enjoy being a meditator—that’s where you experience the results.
6. LIFE BECOMES BLISSFUL.
The Transcendental Meditation technique directly accesses the limitless source of happiness, energy and intelligence within everyone.
The TM program’s many benefits add up to a life of greater happiness. Through daily TM practice, inner happiness starts spilling over into relationships, work, play—every aspect of life.
Your life becomes blissful. The way it’s supposed to be.
Nancy Landorf, M.D., Specialist in Integrative Medicine: "TM not only reduces stress and anxiety, it helps unfold the inner bliss and happiness that is every human's birthright. My patients who meditate frequently report that the "small stuff"—and sometimes the "big stuff"—no longer bothers them. I see them becoming more spontaneous and friendly and enjoying their lives more. TM is my favorite prescription to write."
7. IT'S A TECHNIQUE, PURE AND SIMPLE.
This is a technique, not a philosophy, way of life or religion. You can practice it and go about your work—or play—without having to think about being "mindful" or "present in the moment," because with the TM technique, awareness grows spontaneously. Life gets more fulfilling everyday—inside and out.
Yes. It’s for everyone.
Because it’s a technique and not a belief system, TM practice is for everyone who wants to enjoy life more. Even if you’re satisfied with your life, through the Transcendental Meditation technique your capacity to enjoy will naturally increase and continue to grow.
Yes. You can meditate anywhere.
Yes. It works for everyone—children, students, businesspeople, artists, clergy, retirees—everyone.
8. THE ULTIMATE COURSE:
The course of instruction in the Transcendental Meditation technique accomplishes in just a few days what many students of meditation spend a lifetime trying to master: transcending. Because the TM technique is simple, natural and effective, when you finish the TM course you’ll be an expert meditator—in possession of an effortless technique for accessing your inner reserves of peace, creativity and intelligence.
What you get:
The TM technique is taught through seven-steps (10-12 hours) over a few days. You receive private instruction adjusted to your individual needs, and comprehensive knowledge to verify your experience and success. Class topics include: (or this can be a pop up: Class topics)
• How to meditate easily and correctly for maximum benefit
• What happens in mind and body during meditation
• The mechanics of transcending
• Experiencing the source of thought
• What happens over time as awareness
grows and your creative potential unfolds
• What is enlightenment?
Ongoing follow-up and support:
The Transcendental Meditation technique comes with extensive follow-up and support to ensure your maximum progress:
• One-on-one support, as needed, with experienced teachers.
• Optional advanced classes so that your understanding can grow with your personal experience.
The continuing classes feature masterful presentations on DVD by Maharishi and renowned quantum physicist Dr. John Hagelin, along with other scientists, artists and educators, speaking about meditation, creativity, health, brain research and the development of full human potential.
This ongoing program of knowledge and personal guidance is available to everyone who learns the TM program—for the rest of your life and at no further charge following the initial course of instruction.
Non-profit, educational organization.
The Transcendental Meditation program is made available through a worldwide non-profit, tax-exempt educational organization that has been training certified instructors for over 40 years, maintaining the TM technique’s effectiveness through systematic, standardized teaching procedures.
Your tuition helps others learn.
All TM course fees go to sustain the teachers and support the organization’s teaching activities—in the US and around the world.
Your tuition helps fund meditation programs in inner city schools and places such as Brazil, South Africa and Thailand, where the Transcendental Meditation technique is taught at no charge through grants and scholarships.
When you learn the Transcendental Meditation technique, you help bring the benefits of meditation to people everywhere.
