{"id":11105,"date":"2014-05-15T12:56:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=11105"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:55:19","slug":"adhd-cant-practice-transcendental-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/people\/adhd-cant-practice-transcendental-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Think People With ADHD Can\u2019t Practice Transcendental Meditation? Wrong! They Can, and Get This&#8230; It Helps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Video:<\/strong> This video was produced by DLF.TV, a branch of the David Lynch Foundation, a non-profit organization founded for the purpose of bringing the scientifically proven stress-reducing practice of Transcendental Meditation to at-risk populations such as inner-city students, veterans with PTSD and their families, women and girls who are victims of domestic violence, and others. To support their cause, visit www.DavidLynchFoundation.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Technique:<\/strong> Transcendental Meditation is a simple, natural, effortless technique practiced 20 minutes twice each day while sitting comfortably with the eyes closed. It is easy to learn and enjoyable to practice, and is not a religion, philosophy, or lifestyle. Over six million people have learned it \u2014 people of all ages, cultures, and religions \u2014 and over 350 published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/research-on-meditation\" target=\"_blank\">research studies<\/a> have found that the TM technique markedly reduces stress, anxiety, and fatigue, and promotes balanced functioning of mind and body.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/safe_image.php_.png\" title=\"Aaron Axelrod\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"377\" height=\"197\" style=\"display:none\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years artist Aaron Axelrod struggled with ADHD and the medications prescribed to treat it. In his own words, &#8220;Adderall is like Speed. It got to a point where it was kind of taking over my life.&#8221; He wanted a way to calm down without using drugs.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/people\/adhd-cant-practice-transcendental-meditation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,61,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-video","category-vlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11617,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions\/11617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}