{"id":5803,"date":"2012-01-23T17:06:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T22:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2016-01-29T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T22:22:43","slug":"oprah-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/meditation\/oprah-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah\u2019s Experience With Transcendental Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Oprah Winfrey\u2019s \u201cWhat I Know for Sure\u201d column in the February 2012 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/yvqSnY\" target=\"_blank\">O Magazine<\/a>, she talks about her experiences with the Transcendental Meditation technique and her visit to Fairfield, Iowa, the home of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mum.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Maharishi University of Management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During her visit to the University, Oprah meditated with more than a 1,000 people. She described her TM experience this way:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;It was a powerfully energizing yet calming experience. I didn&#8217;t want it to end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it did, I walked away feeling fuller than when I&#8217;d come in. Full of hope, a sense of contentment, and deep joy. Knowing for sure that even in the daily craziness that bombards us from every direction, there is\u2014still\u2014the constancy of stillness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only from that space can you create your best work and your best life.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oprah\u2019s visit to Fairfield (which she called \u201cTM Town\u201d) was featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/own-oprahs-next-chapter\/oprahs-next-chapter.html\">Oprah\u2019s Next Chapter<\/a> program (Sunday nights on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/own\">OWN &#8211; the Oprah Winfrey Network<\/a>). <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Oprah Winfrey\u2019s most recent \u201cWhat I Know for Sure\u201d column in the February 2012 issue of O Magazine, she talks about her experiences with the Transcendental Meditation program and her visit to Fairfield, Iowa, the home of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/meditation\/oprah-magazine\/\">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":36,"featured_media":13293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,81,53],"tags":[57,69,63,295,125,22],"class_list":["post-5803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditation","category-news","category-people","tag-celebrity","tag-health","tag-interview","tag-meditation","tag-oprah","tag-transcendental-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13304,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions\/13304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}