Transcendental Meditation – South Africa

In this 4-minute section of a fascinating in-depth interview, Oprah Winfrey describes to Dr Mehmet Oz, medical doctor and TV talk-show host, how she “……brought Transcendental Meditation teachers into Harpo Studios to teach me and my team how to meditate. So we started meditating. Seven of us led to 70, led to 270, led to [...]

A new study published in the Journal of Instructional Psychology found that Transcendental Meditation significantly decreased psychological distress in high-school learners by 36 percent over 4 months compared to the control group (the group that did not learn TM). The study also found significant decreases in trait anxiety and depressive symptoms. Full story. The study was [...]

A new study published has found that people with consistently high health care costs had a 28% cumulative decrease in physician fees after an average of five years practising the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique. There was no significant change in a similar group who did not learn TM. Both groups received the usual medical care. [...]

The Maharishi School in Skelmersdale, Lancashire, which incorporates the practice of  Transcendental Meditation twice a day, has been granted Free School status by the UK’s Department for Education, proudly joining other state-maintained schools in England. Free Schools are a new phenomenon in the UK, and the Maharishi School is one of only 24 schools (from [...]

Transcendental Meditation improves brain functioning and verbal fluency in ADHD children significantly within just 3 months of practice, a new study has found. The random-assignment controlled study was conducted at an independent school for children with language-based learning disabilities in Washington DC, USA, and was published on 26 July in Mind & Brain, The Journal of Psychiatry (Vol [...]

The most important new book on Transcendental Meditation for decades is coming to South Africa early next year, but can already be ordered from the USA. Its title is Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation.  The author is Dr Norman Rosenthal, a world-renowned psychiatrist who was the first to identify and treat Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD. [...]

Transcendental Meditation can help under-achieving schoolchildren to improve their basic educational skills.  A new study published this week has shown Transcendental Meditation to improve maths and English results, among children from disadvantaged backgrounds. The study, published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Education, was conducted in a middle school serving an underprivileged California neighbourhood. [...]

Transcendental Meditation is featured in some short interviews on four English-language radio stations in South Africa, on Point of View, hosted by well-known TV personality Randall Abrahams (see picture). The interview is divided into 3-minute sections interspersed with music, and covers topics such as: benefits of TM, scientific research on heart health, simplicity of TM, stress [...]

Transcendental Meditation is an effective technique to relieve stress and burnout, as shown by hundreds of research studies. Stress and burnout were recently highlighted as the most pressing health issues of the 21st century, during presentations to heads of state at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. More than 600 scientific research studies show Transcendental [...]

On December 11th, 54 students graduated at the Maharishi Institute, Johannesburg, which provides basic training in business and entrepreneurship and life skills to deserving South African youth, through consciousness-based education which develops the students’ creativity, intelligence and inner genius through Transcendental Meditation. The students had completed the 2-year Foundation Programme, the first group to graduate [...]