{"id":8381,"date":"2012-10-22T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=8381"},"modified":"2012-10-23T11:37:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:37:40","slug":"candy-crowley-says-tm-is-her-secret-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/news\/candy-crowley-says-tm-is-her-secret-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN\u2019s Candy Crowley Tells NY Times<\/em> & Prevention<\/em> TM is Her Secret for Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"CNN<\/a> news anchor Candy Crowley is one of America’s busiest\u2014and most influential\u2014women. She\u2019s CNN\u2019s chief political correspondent, the host of the Sunday morning talk show State of the Union with Candy Crowley<\/a><\/em>, and this week she hosted the second Presidential Debate<\/a> between US President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. How does she juggle such a hectic schedule and stay balanced? Says Crowley, a healthy vegetarian diet, exercise, and deep rest through the Transcendental Meditation program all help to keep her on top of her game.<\/p>\n

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In a pre-debate NY Times<\/em> Q&A entitled \u201cCandy Crowley\u2019s Debate Prep,\u201d<\/a> Crowley was asked if there is one thing she does every day. She responded: <\/p>\n

\u201cI practice Transcendental Meditation<\/a>. I\u2019ll do it in the morning. If I have to, I do it at the office. Most times, I will do it when I get home, but not before bed, because it tends to be energizing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Higher energy levels mean a lot to an award-winning woman whose journalistic assignments have taken her to all 50 states and around the world. In fact, Crowley says it was the hectic pace of her 2008 presidential election coverage that led Crowley to learn the TM technique in the first place. <\/p>\n

In Prevention magazine\u2019s \u201c10 Questions for Candy Crowley, Presidential Debate Moderator,\u201d<\/a> Crowley said, <\/p>\n

\u201cCampaigns are just so hard on everything. You\u2019re on the bus, you\u2019re off the bus, you\u2019re on the plane, you\u2019re in a hotel. And that\u2019s really your life: You think you\u2019re not going to eat and then you eat too much, or you think you are going to eat and you don\u2019t eat enough. You\u2019re just so stressed out and tired.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen the 2008 campaign was over, I said, \u2018How about if I promise myself that I will spend a year concentrating on getting healthy and doing the right things? If I hate it and it\u2019s horrible, at the end of the year I\u2019ll just go back and eat crazy.\u2019 My friends called it The Year of Candy. I had a friend who said, \u2018You oughta try Transcendental Meditation.\u2019\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She learned shortly after and has been an avid practitioner ever since. <\/p>\n

In addition to enjoying the program\u2019s health and wellness benefits herself, Crowley has seen the TM program create positive transformations in other people\u2019s lives as well\u2014including US military veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder<\/a> (PTSD). Last May, she was host of the national summit on \u201cResilience, the Brain, and Meditation\u201d<\/a> at the Army and Navy Club in Washington, D.C. The meeting was held to explore the extensive scientific evidence and clinical experience documenting the use of the Transcendental Meditation technique to promote resilience and overcome post-traumatic stress disorder among active-duty military personnel, veterans, and cadets.<\/p>\n

The TM program is associated with many health and wellness benefits\u2014as shown by hundreds of peer-reviewed studies and NIH-funded research. But for Crowley, the main benefit is stress-relief. <\/p>\n

In the Prevention<\/em> article, Crowley said of her daily TM practice: <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a relaxation technique. A TM teacher once said to me, \u2018You know when you have a really wavy day on a boat, and you\u2019re getting tossed around and there\u2019s white caps everywhere? That\u2019s kind of where we spend most of our time: on top of the waves.\u2019 But if you jump into the water and can get down to the bottom, it\u2019s so still and quiet. That\u2019s where TM is. I just sit in a chair in my room. I meditate in the airport. I meditate in my office in the afternoon. It doesn\u2019t require a special place or even a lack of people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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CNN news anchor Candy Crowley is one of America\u2019s busiest\u2014and most influential\u2014women. She\u2019s CNN\u2019s chief political correspondent, the host of the Sunday morning talk show State of the Union with Candy Crowley… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[63,299,32,22],"class_list":["post-8381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-interview","tag-people","tag-stress","tag-transcendental-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}