| More than 500 scientific studies about transcendental | | | | last 25 years many studies carried out in companies |
| meditation were carried out in the last 25 years at | | | | like GM showed that transcendental meditation |
| more than 200 independent universities and research | | | | programs bring with them a lot of advantages for |
| institutions. The results show that the program of | | | | companies and their employees. A study with 125 |
| transcendental meditation has beneficial effects in all | | | | General Motors employees showed that their |
| areas of life, private and professional. The research | | | | practicing of TM brought about a significant |
| has been published for example in 'Science', 'The | | | | improvement in their health, productivity and morale.In |
| American Journal of Physiology', 'Scientific American' | | | | another area, the US government pays Vietnam |
| and many more. They all show that the quality of life | | | | veterans the enrollment fees for courses in |
| of those practicing TM is far better than in those who | | | | transcendental meditation, as long as their physicians |
| don't practice it.Transcendental meditation was taught | | | | prescribe it. This policy of providing this kind of |
| for the first time in the West about fifty years ago by | | | | meditation training for the veterans was initiated when |
| the physician and philosopher Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It | | | | studies showed that people suffering from |
| soon became very popular around the world because | | | | post-traumatic stress syndrome experienced a |
| of its many positive effects. This particular meditation | | | | considerable reduction in their symptoms when |
| technique is independent of local values, religions, faiths | | | | practicing TM.In California, US, the bar association |
| and political convictions.It is basically a relaxation | | | | recognizes courses that lawyers take in TM as having |
| technique for the mind which can be learned easily. It | | | | curriculum value. Here as well the background for this |
| consists of practice sessions, twice daily for about 10 | | | | change of attitude is the recognition that attorneys |
| to 20 minutes, where the person meditating sits | | | | work better and more effectively when they have the |
| comfortably and with closed eyes. Mediation is usually | | | | possibility to liberate themselves from the stress |
| associated with the lotus position, which is extremely | | | | courtrooms and trials bring with them. The regular |
| painful for the beginner. Here, a comfortable chair, a | | | | attendance of legal training courses is obligatory in |
| cushion, anything that provides a physical position | | | | California and is being monitored through a point |
| where bones don't hurt is good enough.People who | | | | system. For the attendance of a basic course in TM |
| practice transcendental meditation report deep | | | | attorneys get assigned x number of points that count |
| relaxation, greater spiritual clarity, more creativity and | | | | toward their curriculum.The holder of the world record |
| far better stress management in difficult life situations. | | | | in remembering numbers in the Guinness book of |
| And they report better health.Transcendental | | | | records considers transcendental meditation as a very |
| meditation is probably the meditation technique that has | | | | effective relaxation technique. Mr. Tomoyori achieved |
| been best investigated and documented scientifically. | | | | his record in 1990, at the age of 58, by remembering |
| Many scientific publications have dealt with the subject | | | | the number Pi - which is 3.14, ad infinitum. He |
| and have proven its inherent value not only for those | | | | remembered 40,000 values after the point. He says: " I |
| who practice it but for business as well. Let's look at | | | | learned TM because I wanted to learn how to relax |
| General Motors, for example.The biggest car | | | | better and to maintain my power of concentration. |
| manufacturing company in the U.S. offers all its | | | | Because it takes 17 hours to say this number by heart |
| employees courses in transcendental meditation paid | | | | I need a certain relaxation while at the same time I |
| for by the company. Triggering this program was the | | | | must be able to concentrate. TM is great because it's |
| realisation that stress on the job costs American | | | | so simple and it provides effective relaxation. It helps in |
| companies 200 billion dollars annually. It has been | | | | strengthening my powers of concentration while at the |
| identified as the main factor for the deteriorating health | | | | same time helping me to sleep deeply. |
| of employees and the decrease in productivity.In the | | | | |