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Learning Transcendental Meditation Online in London

Excerpt from a recent Google Review

“TM is the single most effective thing I’ve done to regulate my nervous system. Its helped enormously overall, but particularly with anxiety and sleep. I’ve been practising solidly since I did the TM course nine months ago. I have chronic conditions and Chris offering this learning online actually made it accessible to me. There’s no resistance around TM (I’d struggled to keep a consistent practice with other types of meditation in the past) I find it easy, enjoyable and powerfully restful. Every couple of months my practise deepens and more benefits slowly unfold, it’s a really beautiful thing.”

A ~ London

 

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Transcendental Meditation in Tyne & Wear

“Though developed in the Vedic tradition, for me TM is not a mystical, religous or even a New Age practice. It is a practical and down to earth way of dispelling stress, and opening up the ideas section of my mind.

No forced focus on the body or on a mantra; no fighting the mind’s purpose, which is to think thoughts. It works the way your mind works. Literally no effort, in fact, effort is a no no! I’ve worked two meditations into my daily routine and the benefits have been dramatic and quite specific; easy stress handling, significantly enhanced creativitive ideas for my business, as well as renewed energy and drive.”

Douglas ~ Tyne & Wear (Learned TM in 1974)

 

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Some Transcendental Meditation Comments From 2023

* “The meditation has been great and the online groups are an added bonus too.”  Ian ~ Dunoon, Scotland

* “As ever TM continues to provide moments of sanity and even calm in this crazy, wonderful world!”  Claire ~ York

* “The meditation has been really good, generally doing once a day, late afternoon.” Brian ~ Manchester

* “TM is really powerful and different from all the other methods I have experienced so far.  I already loved meditating, but now I just can’t wait to sit down?  I am doing great and enjoying my meditations.”  Sonja, Lugano, Switzerland

* I wanted to let you know I’ve been using your guided meditation audio file to help keep me on track and its been super helpful.” Ed ~ Los Angeles, US

* “TM is going great, I’m really enjoying it and the online meditations are an added bonus too. I’m in a good routine of 7am and 5pm.”  Sharon ~ Newcastle upon Tyne

* “I really enjoyed tonight, first time I’ve had some peace in ages.” Lawrence ~ Gateshead, Tyne & Wear

* “I just wanted to say a very big thankyou for the TM course.  I have managed to practice twice daily and it has been of enormous benefit.”  Julie ~ Allendale, Northumberland

 

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Learning TM – Transcendental Meditation Online Testimonial from Glasgow

“At the beginning of Covid I was going through a difficult time and a friend suggested I do Chris’s Transcendental Meditation course. I’d tried various sorts of meditation before and had had no success so I was sceptical. I was even more sceptical when I learned the course would be via Zoom. How could one possibly learn TM via Zoom? Well, very easily, as it turns out.

Chris created a safe and friendly athmosphere in which to learn, individual issues and preferences were respected. Chris’s teaching was clear, straight forward, jargon-free, fascinating and fun. The learning was effortless and enjoyable. I never had any sense of confusion, never was made to feel that I was somehow “doing it wrong.” Any questions and concerns I had, Chris responded to clearly and thoughfully. To him there is no such thing as “a silly question.”

TM has made a huge difference to my life. I no longer wake up every morning feeling anxious. My outlook on life is happier, more positive. Of course TM does’nt make all the difficulties of life disappear, but it does sort of shrink them. I am now able to deal with problems and stress in a balanced, optimistic way. They no longer dominate my thoughts. Their negative effect is minimised. I no longer worry about what may never happen. And. the great thing is, I can do TM anywhere, all I need is myself, my mantra and somewhere to sit.

And the extra bonus for me is those 20 or 40 minutes a day of TM, purely and simply are my-not-so guilty pleasure.”

Irene ~ Glasgow (Learnt TM online June 2020)

 

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A perfect description of why meditation becomes such a precious thing for so many people

“All of humanity’s problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Blaise Pascal ~ 1623 – 1662

What a brilliant way of describing the value of meditation by someone born 400 years ago.  Never more pertinent then in todays world.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/19/change-your-life-sit-down-and-think?fbclid=IwAR2S4uusX_13nyh7Z5sGdTGKVFaluroDNeqmd9ir1BiPoqhgSfn3JXnEQho

 

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Interesting article on how short regular rests help maintain a better quality of life

This will come as no surprise to anyone who meditates and is nicely summed up by maharishi who introduced Transcendental Meditation to the world  in the late 1950’s :

“Meditation is a bit like being asleep, but being awake to enjoy it.”

Short daytime naps may keep brain healthy as it ages, study says

Brief doze may delay brain shrinkage, which occurs faster in people with neurodegenerative diseases

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/20/short-daytime-naps-may-keep-brain-healthy-as-it-ages-study-says?fbclid=IwAR3_W6966_Ju-2YTZcYYAKPiUDICBjPhZz3oME2LFuE593qqzzRVerLg4bg

 

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Transcendental Meditation testimonial from Dorset

“I first learned TM (Transcendental Meditation) nearly 40 years ago when I was in a very dark place after losing my mother. It really helped me a lot, but I did not keep my regular practise up as the years went by. I tried many different meditations, but always came back to TM. It was like an old friend and saw me through many difficult times in my life. It helped me with insomnia too. Several years ago I took a refresher course with Chris Greathead and have been practising regularly ever since. Now there are daily zoom TM meditations online which really help with keeping up with the practise. There is so much free ongoing support and I feel that the zoom sessions are quite powerful and as good as in person sessions.

If I cannot make the zoom calls there is a recorded sesion from Chris that can be downloaded which is very useful.

My only regret is that I did not keep up my practise from the start as its certainly the best.”

Rosalind ~ Dorset

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Transcendental Meditation Reduces Burnout And Depression In Physicians Study

Miniscule study as usual, but 1000’s of medics (in the UK alone) who practice Transcendental Meditation will recognise these findings.

BTW ignore the posture shown in pic, comfort is number one when meditating

Transcendental Meditation may decrease depression and burnout in academic physicians, according to a randomized controlled study.

https://medicaldialogues.in/psychiatry/news/transcendental-meditation-reduces-burnout-and-depression-in-physicians-study-106288?fbclid=IwAR31Pg6RdfJlBDYPKWxUCdD3xTGKyuC7p2xKPX9YXrWE6SGzfVeTzpusU6Y

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Tim Burgess from the Charlatans on his experience of learning Transcendental Meditation

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I’m going to recommend something that I think is huge, and its Transcendental Meditation. Although the technique is super easy, the effects are huge, and all you do is kind of get given a mantra, you repeat the mantra and you sit down for 20 minutes and its just life changing.

How long have you been doing it?

Since 2008.

Did you find it hard to get into? Because for me and meditation, I always find it difficult to stay in focus. You said 20 minutes, but after 2 minutes my mind is wondering all over, I have trouble locking in. Did it take you awhile to get to that point?

Well actually no. Because I had all that kind of trepidation beforehand, I gave up drinking and I gave up taking drugs. For a year or two I was just kind of like, wondering around, wondering how to fill this void, because your kind of empty. You’ve lived your whole life drinking and doing all this and all of the sudden you’ve got this awakening – a rude awakening – where you just have to learn how to live without drinking.

So, I was in my apartment trying to remain friends with all my friends that still liked to get drunk. Playing records, playing records, playing records and I just sat on the opposite side of the room drinking a Diet Coke. [laughs] And a friend of mine came up to me and she said, “Have you ever tried meditation? Ever thought about Transcendental Meditation?” And I hadn’t. We started talking about the Maharishi, because I was always a huge fan of The Beatles and my favorite period is the Magical Mystery Tour and in any Beatles documentary is the time they go to Bangor [Wales] and then to India and they write The White Album and all that and it’s just mind-blowing. And I’m just like, “Oh yeah, yeah – I’m into that.”
I went to the Isle of Wight and I learned how to meditate – I went within a week of my friend telling me. I was thinking, “How can you do 20 minutes?” That’s just so long! And how can you fit it in twice a day? It takes up so much time. But the 20 minutes that you put into it almost gives you about four hours extra in the day. It’s just mad. It’s like time, I don’t know, it’s like a time shift or something like that. The 20 minutes you put in, you get so much energy and you do so much more in the day. It’s just really helped me to be able to do everything I do.

https://vanyaland.com/2023/01/30/617-qa-tim-burgess-on-the-charlatans-hanging-out-between-10th-and-11th/