{"id":12894,"date":"2015-01-21T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=12894"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:46:20","slug":"transcendental-meditation-helps-at-risk-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/transcendental-meditation-helps-at-risk-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcendental Meditation Helps At-Risk Populations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Technique:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/meditation-techniques\" target=\"_blank\">Transcendental Meditation<\/a> is a simple, natural, effortless technique practiced twenty minutes twice each day while sitting comfortably with the eyes closed. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/meditation-myths-watch-this-and-think-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">easy to learn<\/a> 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>Over the past several years, full TM scholarships have been given to more than 500,000 at-risk students, military veterans and others in need through partnerships with other non-profit organizations and foundations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/transcendental-meditation-helps-at-risk-populations\/\">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":12895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894","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=12894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12896,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894\/revisions\/12896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}