{"id":12735,"date":"2015-03-02T15:48:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T20:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=12735"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:45:25","slug":"the-journey-from-being-homeless-to-being-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/the-journey-from-being-homeless-to-being-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey From Being Homeless To Being Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Video:<\/strong> Gettlove is a nonprofit in Hollywood that secures permanent housing for chronically homeless individuals and provides support services thereafter to ensure their housing is sustained. Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/gettlove.org\" target=\"_blank\">Gettlove.org<\/a>. This video was produced and edited by the David Lynch Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships to teach the TM technique to at-risk populations. You can learn more about their work with the homeless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlynchfoundation.org\/homeless-shelters.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/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 380 published, peer-reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/research-on-meditation \" target=\"_blank\">research studies<\/a> have found that the TM technique significantly reduces stress, anxiety, and fatigue, and promotes balanced functioning of mind and body.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On any given night, there are 51,000 homeless sleeping on the streets of Los Angeles. About 3 years ago, the David Lynch Foundation partnered with Gettlove, a nonprofit that works one-on-one with homeless individuals to secure and sustain housing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/the-journey-from-being-homeless-to-being-home\"> 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":12738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[60,259,258,295,32,22],"class_list":["post-12735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vlog","tag-david-lynch-foundation","tag-gettlove","tag-homelessness","tag-meditation","tag-stress","tag-transcendental-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735","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=12735"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12900,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions\/12900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}