This week’s Transcendental Meditation testimonial from Winchester, Hants

‘I had been looking to learn meditation for a while, but was quite unsure as to which kind I wanted to do. Fortunately, I heard an interview on the radio with David Lynch who was singing the praises of TM, and having done some subsequent reading, I thought it must be worth a go!

I learnt TM about half way through my first pregnancy and I foundthat it considerably altered the experience, and my life generally. There were a couple of quite stressful factors in my life at the time and the meditation helped me to draw away from these and to connect more with the baby. I often followed meditation with some gentle yoga and I look back on this as valuable and peaceful time spent.

I have practised fairly regularly over the last five years, although fitting two sessions a day round the now two children is challenging, and it is often just the once after they have gone to bed! I am a housewife/pianist/singer/songwriter and I find that the meditation helps with everything from sorting through life on a mundane level and dealing with the family more calmly, to a more profound level creatively. It has doubtlessly played a role in increasing my confidence in my material and in performing, which I never thought I would be able to do.’
Tansey ~ Winchester, Hants

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Another Transcendental Meditation testimonial from last Novembers course in York

“I decided to try TM after suffering a brain haemorrhage which left me disabled & also from a condition called Thalamic Pain Syndrome which means I am in pain 24/7. The Consultant prescribed many different medications including morphine but pain levels became more intense. I tried meditation many years ago when I was at university after a car accident & found it helped. After researching TM, it was obviously the next choice, very easy to learn & I couldn’t believe the benefits, almost instantaneous.  Within 2 days the eczema on my arms had vanished, I was sleeping much better, 8 hours no problem. I was much calmer at home & had regained my focus, mentally. Most importantly, my pain levels reduced during & after meditating. This started with 30 minutes then 1 hour & increases on a weekly basis. I still have odd days when the pain is ‘bothersome’ but TM has given me my life back & I’m still making progress.”

Steve ~ Retired Teacher, Hull.

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Transcendental Meditation testimonial from Yorkshire

“Just wanted to let you know how beneficial I am finding the TM. I attended the course in York, and apart from 2 days, when we had the builders in, have practised TM everyday. I have tried different types of meditation in the past, but none have worked for me as well as TM. After being made redundant last year and failing to find employment, I was beginning to feel very despondent, stressed and anxious. After only a few days of meditating I realized that I am in the right place, for me to be, at the present moment in time. I don’t wish to be unemployed for much longer, but the stress and anxiety I was experiencing have gone. It is so lovely not to wake up each morning with an anxious knot in the pit of my stomach. My better half has noticed a difference in me too.”
I found the course to be extremely informative and easy to understand, it really has made a difference to my life.
Joanne ~ Yorkshire

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TM testimonial from Durham doctor

“TM helps to make you more relaxed and clearer thinking, more able to cope with stress.  As a doctor I don’t think it’s just for ill people.  I see it as a quality of life improver.”

Dr Shepherd ~ Durham

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TM testimonial from Newcastle upon Tyne

Also 3 months after learning TM :
“Am still meditating, headaches gone . Trying to keep to a practice is my challenge, very beneficial when I do it !”
Fiona ~ Newcastle upon Tyne

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TM testimonial from Oxford

3 months after attending TM course : “Still meditating when I find the time and it’s proving very useful as a study break.”

Steve ~ Student ~ Oxford

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Transcendental Meditation testimonial from Brighton

“I have been meditating since the summer and I’m definitely noticing the benefits from doing so. I’m someone who finds it difficult to relax and yet I look forward to meditating as one of my first things of the morning and enjoy having this time for myself before starting a busy day. It helps me feel calmer throughout the day, and even better when I do it later on in the afternoon too! I’ve realised I can’t achieve everything by thinking about something and analysing it, and can see that meditating is contributing at a deeper level to a happier and more self-confident way of being.”
Chris ~ Brighton

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Meditation is a pleasure to do, or why would you do it?

“Much to my own surprise I’m still meditating regularly! I find it difficult to do it twice a day but always do my morning one followed by a bit of yoga. Sets me up well for the day.”
Ros ~ Manchester

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TM testimonial from the north west UK

“I learnt TM when I was 36, I am now 61. At that time I was in a highly demanding job, smoking about 40 cigarettes a day and with a heart that was beating faster than a formula one car. A friend said that if I didn’t do something I would soon drop dead. He had been meditating since he was very young and suggested I learnt TM. I laughed a lot because I I thought the whole thing absurd. I was very “left hemisphere”, and “logic” told me that to sit chanting was a ridiculous thing. However he kept pestering me and said that it would do no harm in learning.

So I went along. In those days you took flowers and fruit to the person teaching you and this added to my feeling of TM being mumbo jumbo. I sat through the whole lesson being sceptical and feeling very silly. The following sessions didn’t change my opinion either though I persisted with the course. However even though my head was telling me it was rubbish I couldn’t deny the actual positive physical affects it was having on me. All my life I had what I would now call a “knotted stomach”. I was so used to it that I thought it normal. From the outset the meditation released this, it was so physically different that I became worried. I spoke to my TM teacher about this and explained that I had all these worries and troubles, but I wasn’t concerned about them in the way I was before. My creative powers burst and I was running on full cylinders without any of the worries previously. My smoking level decreased so that I found it easier to give up and I was a lot happier in myself. In fact if I came home from work tired and snappy the children would look at me and say “go meditate mum” and off I would trot and come back downstairs with a different state of mind. They said they reaped the benefits of me meditating too!

I was so converted by the positive effect TM had, physically, mentally and creatively that I allowed my children to learn. Both my daughters have said that TM assisted them in pain control during childbirth and want my granddaughters to learn for this very reason.

I meditated for ten years nonstop and then gradually lapsed as life took over and the need to meditate became less as I wiped out the stressful elements of my life. I started again recently as a family trauma caused me to be in an over anxious state, I stopped sleeping and had the problems going round and round in my head like worms. I knew I had the tool to control my nerves and began to meditate again. After a few weeks of meditating I was sleeping properly again, and feeling better in myself. Meditation certainly doesn’t make the problems go away – it just makes it easier to cope with them and it is far better to approach problems with an easy mind rather than a stressed one.”

Carole, Retired, West Pennines

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