{"id":8794,"date":"2012-12-19T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T17:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2014-11-28T12:57:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T17:57:41","slug":"seinfeld-stephanopoulos-talk-tm-on-good-morning-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/video\/seinfeld-stephanopoulos-talk-tm-on-good-morning-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcendental Meditation On ABC\u2019s Good Morning America<\/em>: It\u2019s Like A Cellphone Charger For Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Stephanopoulos on why the interview:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all here because we all have something in common\u2014we all practice Transcendental Meditation. \u2026 I think that people don\u2019t really understand exactly what it is and what a difference it has made in people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jerry Seinfeld on talking about TM:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to explain. \u2026 I was describing it to somebody. I was saying it\u2019s like having you know how your phone has a charger\u2014it\u2019s like having a charger for your whole body and mind. That\u2019s what TM is.\u201d <\/p>\n

Stephanopoulos on hearing about TM from Bob Roth:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou said something important to me when we first started, and it answered a question I had. You said this is not a religion. It\u2019s a technique. It\u2019s compatible with all kinds of religions. What it really does is try to get the stress out of your life, and scientists are finding real health benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bob Roth on TM and levels of the mind:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole idea is that we have very active, noisy levels of the mind\u2014\u2018I gotta go here, gotta do this, gotta do that.\u2019 But every human being has deep within a settled, calm, silent level of their mind. Transcendental Meditation is just an effortless way to have the active, excited mind settle down and experience that inner calm. At the same time the body gains a very deep state of rest. That rest eliminates stress. It wakes up the brain and you have more energy.”<\/p>\n

Roth on recent TM heart research: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe American Heart Association<\/a> just came out with a study a month ago that showed that Transcendental Meditation is highly effective for reducing high blood pressure, for reducing risk of stroke, and for actually reducing mortality rates by almost 50% in people who had been meditating for five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephanopoulos on the David Lynch Foundation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re also doing some exciting work. You guys are going into schools now and helping at-risk kids<\/a>, helping soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan who are suffering from post-traumatic stress<\/a>\u2014also women who have been the victims of violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Roth on government funding:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department of Defense<\/a> just provided a $2M grant to study the effects of Transcendental Meditation on post-traumatic stress disorder.”<\/p>\n

Roth on the modern stress epidemic: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is, as Forbes magazine said, stress is the black plague of the 21st century. It\u2019s an ugly thing. It can\u2019t be prevented, it can\u2019t be cured by conventional means, and now this particular meditation technique has been shown to be highly effective in eliminating post-traumatic stress disorder. It\u2019s being used in schools where young children in urban centers have the same symptoms of PTSD<\/a> as soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan.” <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s interesting that something so ancient and traditional\u2014and not a religion and not a philosophy and not a change in life-style, something anyone can do\u2014something that simple can have such a profound impact on very modern ailments.”<\/p>\n

Stephanopoulos on government support for TM: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we\u2019re seeing, as you say, the government get involved and really try to promote it and multiply the good and the difference that can come from it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roth on resiliency and the military: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a military college in Vermont called Norwich University<\/a> where we\u2019re offering TM to cadets, and the president, Admiral Schneider feels that this should be a part of basic training because it adds resiliency so that the immune system to stress is strengthened.\u201d <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Award-winning ABC news anchor and talk show host George Stephanopoulos spoke on the benefits of Transcendental Meditation with comic great Jerry Seinfeld and David Lynch Foundation executive director Bob Roth during the top-rated morning talk show \u201cGood Morning America.” Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,61,191],"tags":[57,87,69,22,300],"class_list":["post-8794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-video","category-vlog","tag-celebrity","tag-depression","tag-health","tag-transcendental-meditation","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12027,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions\/12027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}