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

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

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

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

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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Comment left on New Statesman website in response to their article on TM

“David Lynch’s article provides an excellent overview of practising Transcendental Meditation ( TM ). NS readers who followed this up by viewing Mr. Lynch’s website at davidlynchfoundation.org.uk will have noticed links to the website maharishifoundation.org.uk which suggests that the only means of learning TM in the UK is through the Maharishi Foundation.
Anyone considering learning TM should do as I did and look at Transcendental Meditation Independent UK on the following websites :
www.tm-meditation.co.uk
There is an alternative avenue open to would be TMers : look at the websites and make your own mind up – I did, like many others, and we didn’t regret it.”
Tony ~ Wakefield, Yorkshire

TM testimonial from Edinburgh

“It’s been 3 months now since I first learned the simple Transcendental Meditation technique and it’s been the most balanced, harmonious, relaxing & productive time in my life so far. I say ‘so far’ because each day I keep growing stronger in energy due to the accumulative effects of daily TM practice. I now have the inner space to realize my full potential. TM has melted away all my underlying stresses, anxieties, hang ups, for me it’s been nothing short of miraculous.
Every human being should have access to their core inner peace source, but for some reason it’s like we’ve never been taught how to navigate through all the over-powering emotions and conditions that seem to leave us too often powerless and out of control of our own lives. Its like a lot of the time we’re at the mercy of our own emotions and fears.
From my own humble perspective I can see now that we all have the ability to tune our minds to a much sweeter vibration and in turn enjoy the infinite possibilities of life. I could go on about the endless benefits of this magical little technique but don’t want to come across all preaching. Sounds too good to be true doesn’t it. Aaaah the relief , all these years of stress and deep seeded fears stuck in a loop worrying over essentially nothing have totally gone”
Tim ~ Edinburgh

A personal experience of the beneficial effect of Transcendental Meditation on high blood pressure

“My name is Susan; I live near Newcastle upon Tyne and run my own small business. Eight years ago the world I knew fell apart in an instant. This brought me unbelievable sadness and there were times when I thought my brain would burst as it was constantly full of the stresses and strains of my new life. Then one day I spotted a TM leaflet in a local shop which planted the idea that meditation may be of help to me.  For about a year I considered TM but never found the time for my self as so much else was taking over my life. The unbelievable sadness continued and one day I just decided to be brave and give it a go.  I found my introduction to TM to be straightforward though finding the time to meditate was initially difficult, but with perseverance I have found the benefit of that blissful peace which TM gives me.  I begin TM with my head full of ‘stuff’ but when finished I seem able to prioritise and put things into perspective. TM has also helped me enormously with my blood pressure which began to rise this summer. I was told I needed medication for ‘life’. Hearing the word ‘life’ made my blood pressure rise even further and with the advice from my TM teacher and a blood pressure monitor I have managed to bring my blood pressure down and I am no longer being monitored by my doctor. I am thrilled about this and I know I shall always practice TM as it somehow brings me back down to earth and makes me aware of whom I am.”

Susan ~ Newcastle upon Tyne

This weeks TM Testimonial from Scotland via Hongkong

“On learning TM I was in awe of the results that I received. It was a fantastic feeling to find a ‘tool’ that can be easily integrated into your daily life which can bring such relaxation to a stressful day!”

Lee ~ Scotland / Hongkong