Transcendental Meditation
helps you achieve
your goals more easily.
[Actress Beth Behrs] Actually, the first thing I learned was Transcendental Meditation
and then from that I was able to handle stress and feel more rested,
which then led to being able to exercise more.
As I think in our society we tend not to prioritise self-care.
How do you define self-care?
I mean well, anything. I say this, you know,
I think it's about taking care of your mental health, taking time to slow down.
Like, for me meditation really changed my life and I can't like stress that enough.
And even if you don't think you have 20 minutes twice a day,
I do a certain kind called Transcendental Meditation.
20 minutes twice a day?
Yes Like morning like after you wake up and before bed?
Like it's the first thing I do when I wake up and then I usually try to do it in that afternoon slump time.
I used to always grab caffeine as like my afternoon slump thing.
And now if I do TM around 3 pm or 4, I'm great the rest of the night.
Stop Smoking
[Top Model Raquel Zimmermann] Transcendental Meditation changed my whole lifestyle in a year.
And one big change happened four months ago when I was like... I realised that I had to quit smoking.
It was something that I've been carrying with me through all my modelling career
because I thought that smoking would keep me thin.
And and I started to realise that, you know, all this challenges, these things were good things
so stop smoking. It is something that makes me very proud now to be a nonsmoker and
to take care of myself.
Now I wake up and,
before I used to wake up
and the only thing I could think about was how I needed a coffee to get out of bed.
Now more and more, you know, it's been a year now, I really start to feel this blissful feeling.
And it comes and you're like "wow"!
You know, it's beautiful.
Beat that addiction
Transcendental meditation helps as part of a process of tackling addiction.
The crucible of my consciousness is amending.
So all the things like consciousness is not just one more phenomena. It is the seat of all phenomena.
What is it that experiences the being-ness of you?
What is it that experiences your body, your senses, your feelings?
Well, this is affected by Transcendental Meditation.
For me, it's in the component of my recovery from addictions, my ongoing recovery from addictions,
and I think that if we learn to meditate,
if we learn to live in a different way,
then we become sort of vibrant, potent emanators of positivity.
We don't have to go all giddy and start putting flowers in our hair and getting all daft.
I think we could have a fight on our hands any day soon, but like, it is important to allow love into your life.
Don't feel afraid of that. Transformation and change can happen very, very quickly.
Loose that weight
My top weight was 404 pounds and over a period of two years, I took off 230 pounds.
What resources were you going to now use, so that you didn't slip back into the old behaviours,
which had become pretty entrenched?
I know a technique and my technique is Transcendental Meditation.
And what I started finding is that I started having some calmness around my compulsive eating,
my wanting to just run and just get food impulsively,
and I started connecting with my inner self and I started calming down, having a lot more control
and I thought it was great: when I was meditating, life was good. It was good.
I felt stable. I felt happy. I felt blissful.
Improved Family Life
[Dr. Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan] Both myself and my wife Miyuki are extremely fond of Transcendental Meditation.
Due in great part to the wisdom of TM, we have managed to maintain
an exceptionally happy home and family life over the years.
We are deeply grateful for this wonderful gift.
My electoral district was near Sapporo
in Japan's main northern island of Hokkaido, which is a considerable distance from Tokyo.
As a result, the three of us were unable to spend much time together.
Looking back now, I truly believe that the ability of our family to maintain a happy and harmonious lifestyle,
despite the stress of living apart,
was due to the teaching of Transcendental Meditation.
Follow your dreams
You did something very cool.
I did this a few years ago. It's so great to give a commencement speech at a college.
It's so much fun. It's a really important thing. I mean I learned TM there. Let's take a look at this speech.
You could spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future.
But all there will ever be is what's happening here,
in the decisions we make in this moment which are based in either love or fear.
So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.
My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him.
And so he made a conservative choice.
Instead he got a safe job as an accountant and when I was 12 years old,
he was let go from that safe job and our family had to do whatever we could to survive.
I learned many great lessons from my father not the least of which was that
you can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Transcendental Meditation