How Transcendental Meditation can improve your health
by Annie Stuart

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12 August 2011

On 12 August 2011 WebMD reported: The Transcendental Meditation Programme is enjoying renewed interest, writes journalist Annie Stuart, who cites new research showing that this ancient practice can increase focus, decrease stress, and manage high blood pressure, among other health benefits. It is a joy for Global Good News service to feature this news, which indicates the success of the life-supporting programmes Maharishi has designed to bring fulfilment to the field of health.

The WebMD article highlights a broad range of research on Transcendental Meditation (TM), including a recent pilot study by Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D.,* clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School, that found dramatically reduced symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in combat veterans who learned the technique.

'Before our research was over, three of our clinicians had gotten TM training,' the article quotes Dr Rosenthal as saying. 'That's how impressed they were with what they saw.'

Other research findings noted in the article include reduced stress and cardiovascular risk factors including high blood pressure and atherosclerosis; as well as improved brain functioning.

The article includes a section 'How to Practice TM'; however, one of the 'tips' it includes from Dr Rosenthal's book is to 'learn from an expert'—in other words, in the seven-step course given by certified Transcendental Meditation teachers, which ensures one is practising correctly. Also noted is Dr Rosenthal's point that 'TM should not be used as a replacement for needed health care.'

Click here to read the article on WebMD.

* Dr Rosenthal is also author of the new book Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation (Tarcher-Penguin 2011).

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