{"id":12828,"date":"2015-04-03T12:42:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T16:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=12828"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:43:19","slug":"women-in-the-media-who-meditate-benefitting-abused-women-and-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/women-in-the-media-who-meditate-benefitting-abused-women-and-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in the Media Who Meditate: A David Lynch Foundation Event Benefitting Abused Women and Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Video:<\/strong> On Tuesday, October 8, at the Paley Center for Media in New York City, a standing-room-only crowd of 350 professionals gathered to hear ten women leaders in business, media, education, and social services discuss the impact of their Transcendental Meditation practice for reducing stress and stress-related disorders while improving health, creativity, and performance.<\/p>\n<p>The conference also highlighted the work of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlynchfoundation.org\/women.html\" target=\"_blank\">DLF Women&#8217;s Initiative<\/a> in bringing relief to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and funds raised were used to provide the TM technique to hundreds of women and girls served by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/ocdv\/html\/help\/fjc.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Family Justice Centers in New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Technique:<\/strong> Transcendental Meditation is a simple, natural, effortless technique practiced twenty 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 April 16th in NYC, eight notable &#8220;women in the media who meditate&#8221; are coming together for a luncheon roundtable discussion to introduce the TM technique as a tool for overcoming stress, improving performance, and enhancing work-life balance in life. Proceeds will help provide the TM technique to women and girls in NYC who are survivors of violence and abuse.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/women-in-the-media-who-meditate-benefitting-abused-women-and-children\/\">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":12833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[181,186,202,32,22],"class_list":["post-12828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vlog","tag-abuse","tag-domestic-violence","tag-meditation-technique","tag-stress","tag-transcendental-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12828","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=12828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12848,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12828\/revisions\/12848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}