{"id":13225,"date":"2015-11-30T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=13225"},"modified":"2018-07-23T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T18:16:44","slug":"43-years-of-teaching-transcendental-meditation-its-been-quite-a-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/43-years-of-teaching-transcendental-meditation-its-been-quite-a-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"43 Years Of Teaching Transcendental Meditation &#8211; It&#8217;s Been Quite A Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Video:<\/strong> Produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kharecommunications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Khare Communications<\/a>. The video first appeared on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/sharad-khare\/in-dialogue-with-bob-roth_b_8626124.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffington Post Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Technique:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/meditation-techniques\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transcendental Meditation<\/a> is a simple, natural, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/practice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">effortless technique<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/research-on-meditation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research studies<\/a> have found that the TM technique markedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/reduced-stress-and-anxiety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reduces stress<\/a>, anxiety, and fatigue, and promotes balanced functioning of mind and body.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1969, Bob Roth was just looking for a way to handle life. Since then, the Transcendental Meditation technique hasn\u2019t just changed his life, but also the lives of over half a million at-risk individuals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/43-years-of-teaching-transcendental-meditation-its-been-quite-a-journey\/?leadsource=CRM429\">Watch the video<\/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":13242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[161,280,201,295,32,22,286],"class_list":["post-13225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vlog","tag-anxiety","tag-bob-roth","tag-inner-peace","tag-meditation","tag-stress","tag-transcendental-meditation","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225","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=13225"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13820,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions\/13820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}