{"id":14521,"date":"2019-05-16T22:05:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T03:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=14521"},"modified":"2019-05-17T18:48:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T23:48:55","slug":"meditation-is-not-all-listening-to-the-wind-and-the-trees-and-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/meditation-is-not-all-listening-to-the-wind-and-the-trees-and-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Is Not All \u201cListening To The Wind And The Trees And The Birds\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After completing her TM course, Celestine explained, \u201cI\u2019m a lot calmer; I have a lot more patience; it helped me sleep better&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Celestine, many people have found the TM technique helpful for managing their anxiety. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/anxiety#reviews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read their personal comments<\/a>, collected by Trustpilot, an independent customer review site.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/anxiety\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Learn about Transcendental Meditation for Anxiety \u25ba<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/research\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Research studies<\/a> have also documented the benefits of the TM technique for anxiety. These studies have been performed at independent institutions such as Harvard and Stanford, and published in peer-reviewed journals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/2693491\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">One Stanford study<\/a> showed that the TM technique was twice as effective at reducing anxiety compared with other meditation techniques, which involved concentration or contemplation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI actually was not a believer in meditation. I always thought meditation was something that you had to clear your head [to do], which was something that I was really awful at. I thought you had to focus on something\u2026but it was surprisingly really easy.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/vlog\/meditation-is-not-all-listening-to-the-wind-and-the-trees-and-the-birds\">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":14524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[161,351,348,32,232,349,346,22,350],"class_list":["post-14521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vlog","tag-anxiety","tag-healing","tag-meditation-for-anxiety","tag-stress","tag-testimonial","tag-tm-review","tag-tm-technique","tag-transcendental-meditation","tag-trauma-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521","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=14521"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14547,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521\/revisions\/14547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}