New Year’s resolutions worth making & guess what the 1st one is ?

Yes meditation, TM isn’t mentioned, but ………………..

Oliver Burkeman: New Year’s resolutions worth making

You want resolutions? Here – based largely on the most persuasive studies and books I read last year – are three things to do immediately.
‘Don’t waste time convincing yourself they don’t apply to you. Just do them’
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/02/oliver-burkeman-new-years-resolutions-worth-making

San Francisco Schools Transformed by the Power of Meditation

Impressive stuff :

Silence isn’t something people usually associate with middle school, but twice a day the halls of Visitacion Valley School in San Francisco fall quiet as the sixth, seventh and eighth grade students meditate for fifteen minutes.

http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/san-francisco-schools-transformed-power-meditation-n276301

Although unintentional, this is very relevant to why meditation works

Science Proves That Yes, You Dream For A Reason
Why do we dream? Well, it’s not just to pass the time while you’re sleeping. In fact, the latest research suggests that the most important part of your day might be the hours you spend doing… nothing. In this new series of her groundbreaking…

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/23/future-starts-here-s2-e1-dreams_n_6032972.html?ncid=taboola_exchange

Tim Burgess on TM in todays Guardian

He is considerably more bright-eyed than the father of an 18-month-old has any right to be.

Perhaps it’s all down to the rejuvenating powers of transcendental meditation, of which Burgess has been a devotee for several years. “It’s kind of revitalised me. It’s definitely had an effect on my day-to-day enthusiasm for things. It just gives you consistency more than anything, consistency and like … maybe a fire.” Not that his loud advocacy for the practice has had much impact on his bandmates. “I have a couple of beers,” nods Collins, gruffly. “That seems to have the same effect.”

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/04/tim-burgess-charlatans-twitter-new-album

Calm, Clarity and Capacity in Our Lives

Ask anyone and they will likely tell you they are running at 120 percent, that there aren’t enough hours in the day. I was that way for the longest time and set my sights on making space in my life to tackle opportunities that have always been elusive for me… *

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hans-hickler/calm-clarity-and-capacity-in-our-lives_b_6166626.html

Whatever you think of him, Russell’s take on TM is very pertinent.

Transcendental Meditation for young people, brief talk by Russell Brand

Nothing gets between Jerry Seinfeld and his mantra. Even while filming a commercial, meditation is job one for Jerry Seinfeld.

New York Daily News    November 17, 2014

“(‘Seinfeld’) was a lot of pressure, and I loved every second of it, but it was a lot of pressure and a lot of work and it was all great, but I never could have accomplished it without TM,” he said.  Seinfeld, who has a hit web series, “Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee,” recently said the practice got him through the nine seasons of his smash ’90s sitcom.  It seems Seinfeld, who’s been a devotee of the TM movement for decades, is so committed to his twice-daily meditation that he has it built into his shooting schedules.  We’re told the comedian ducked out midway through the afternoon session for about a half hour to do his chanting ritual.  A spy on the set of a recent shoot for a car commercial was surprised when Seinfeld took a break from filming to practice Transcendental Meditation.

Transcendental Meditation – the ultimate “app”?

Call me naive, but I still find it staggering that a certain other “app” 🙂 that’s been around in the west for over half a century hasn’t gone mainstream!!  Especially when as mentioned below some 10.4 million days are lost annually to work-related stress in the UK, according to the Health and Safety Executive.

Tech to take the stress out of stress

Stress and anxiety stop us functioning as we should – instead of medication, what if a simple smartphone app could banish the “Blue Meanies” forever?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29742908