I have been practising TM for nearly 40 years, I learned because I was a worrier, and I was at a turning point in my life, and didn’t know quite what to do, I had just left midwifery and couldn’t make my mind up about various things!
Within a few months of learning TM I learned to drive, got married, and commenced pyschiatric nursing, none of which I have regretted ! Everything seemed to be clearer.

I still worry a little but am a much calmer person, and I just don’t seem right – only half awake if I miss meditation.

What has motivated me to write a testimoial is because of what happened earlier this year, my mother who is blind and quite deaf, had a few falls, she was in hospital for a short while, and then back in her own home. I was visiting her daily and looking after her a great deal, as well as helping with my grandsons.

One day at the weekend, my other two grandsons and their parents had come across from Cheshire to stay, I was driving back from my mothers, when I felt so tired and I suddenly thought – oh’ horror of horrors, I haven’t meditated, and wouldn’t stand much chance when home, so I pulled in at a little chef car park, meditated for 20 minutes, after which I felt so much better, refreshed and energised! It really hit me then just how beneficial TM is, and that I should share this, in the hope that it will inspire others to learn TM.
It is so easy to practise, and although it is good to do it in a quiet place, I have done it at a busy noisy roundabout in Italy!

Gillian.

Retired Health Visitor
North Yorkshire

“I first decided to learn TM when I was a final year medical student at Newcastle University. I was feeling tired all the time and was concerned about how actually working as a doctor was going to impact my life.
TM instantly had a profound effect on me. After just the first session I felt so full of energy and as if a haze had been cleared from my mind. I quickly incorporated TM into my daily routine and found that, even after a very tiring 12 hour shift as a junior doctor, 20 minutes of meditation in the evening left me feeling revitalised and clear focused. I have since changed career and lived in different countries all over the world, but TM has stayed with me along the way.”

Andrew, yoga teacher and massage therapist, from Northern Ireland.