A meditating inmate is a more compassionate human being

09/25/2010

Developing a healthy emotional life is important to us all. But for those who are incarcerated for antisocial behavior, it is a critical need. As the medical director at the Oregon State Correctional Institution for 14 years, Dr. Michael Puerini has cared for the health of thousands of men whose lives have been seriously derailed by their lack of… Read more

Executives talk about the benefits of TM practice

09/23/2010

The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business newspapers, recently reported that Rick Goings, Chief Executive of the international plastics storage giant Tupperware, depends on his Transcendental Meditation practice to enhance his performance and to help him deal with the rigors of leading a global company. Read more

Are all meditation techniques the same?

09/22/2010

As doctors increasingly prescribe meditations to patients for stress-related disorders, scientists are gaining a better understanding of how different techniques from a wide of traditions, both modern and ancient, produce different results. Read more

Orthodox Rabbi speaks on his 9-year TM practice

09/08/2010

Abraham Shainberg is the son of Holocaust survivors. His parents were from Warsaw, Poland, and they immigrated to America through different routes before raising their family the Lower East Side of New York. His father served as Rabbi of the First Warshauer Congregation for 27 years. Read more

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Women college athletes train with TM

09/05/2010

If you are like me, and most other vegetable-loving Americans, the word “squash” probably conjures up an image of succulent green zucchinis, yellow squash, or butternut squash. The last thing that would come to my mind is a highly competitive sport, which, to those of us uneducated in the world of this particular athletic endeavor, looks remarkably like racquetball. Read more

D.C. philanthropist brings meditation to at-risk populations

09/03/2010

Jeffrey Abramson grew up in a family that placed the highest value in “giving back” to society. His family’s business, the Tower Companies has been for decades one of Washington, D.C.’s most successful real estate development companies, and under Jeffrey’s leadership, has become a national leader in “green building.” Read more

Inmates Dive Inward

09/01/2010

Incarceration can be a wake-up call for people who commit crime. It can be a time for introspection and evaluation of one’s life—a time to reflect on the past, present, and future. As a result, prison rehabilitation programs… See video post

The yoga sutra and deep meditation

08/29/2010

While yoga is generally understood in America to be a diverse array of bending and stretching exercises that originated in India, the word yoga has a much wider connotation, and includes sitting with the eyes closed in silent, deep meditation. In India, yoga is a state of mind, not just an exercise for the body. Read more

Walt Whitman – “The luminousness of real vision”

08/24/2010

Walt Whitman left school at eleven and worked at a variety of trades — he was a printer, a teacher, a newspaper writer and editor, a stationer, and a real estate speculator. One never would have guessed he was destined to become America’s seer. Read more

Transcending and the Senses of Perception

08/19/2010

The range of human sensory perception never ceases to amaze me. Our ability to savor the complexities and details of tastes, smells, textures, as well as the visible and audible world is nothing short of astonishing, given our biologic machinery. Read more

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