Wat de media zeggen over Transcendente Meditatie

Eén (De rode loper): Paul McCartney: TM is een levenslang geschenk. “Sir Paul McCartney en de ander Beatles leerden de kunst van het mediteren in de jaren 60 van de vermaarde Maharishi Mahesh Yogi en daar zijn ze nog altijd dankbaar voor.”*

BBC News : Meditation lowers blood pressure. “Transcendental meditation may be one way to keep the heart healthy, say researchers who have discovered how it keeps blood pressure low.”*

CNN video: TM helps war veterans overcome PTSD: US government gives $2,5 million grant to support research

CNN : Meditation helps patients with heart Disease “In a study of adults with coronary heart disease, 16 weeks of transcendental meditation not only led to significant reductions in blood pressure, but also improved heart rate variability and insulin resistance, which is associated with an increase risk of diabetes”*

CNN: Depression, anxiety: What worked for me: Testimony how TM helped with a journalist’s depression, when nothing else seemed to work.
New York Times: Look who’s meditating now: Overzicht van enkele Beroemde TM beoefenaars, zoals Russell brand, David Lynch, George Lucas, Clint Eastwood en Dr. Oz

New York Times: Accredited Bliss: In 2005 plaatste het NYT magazine “Transcendente Meditatie in scholen” bovenaan hun lijst van beste ideeën van het jaar.

Knack.be: Transcendente Meditatie verlaagt hoge bloeddruk “Dit zijn indrukwekkende resultaten want de meeste andere behandelingen, inclusief geneesmiddelen, leveren afzonderlijk veel minder op.”*

Wall Street Journal: A Transcendental cure for Post Traumatic Stress “One study of soldiers showed a 50% reduction in symptoms after eight weeks of [Transcendental] meditation”*

Time Magazine: TM for PTSD “a peer-reviewed study finds that TM may have helped to alleviate symptoms of PTSD and improve quality of life in veterans of OEF/OIF with combat-related PTSD.”*
Time Magazine: Strongest study yet shows meditation can lower risk of heart attack and stroke

De standaard: Transcendente Meditatie halveert kans op infarct “Bij de preventie van hartziekte zouden relaxatietechnieken net zo goed scoren als sommige moderne medicijnen.”*

Washington Post:Transcendental Meditation Improves life expectancy: A study that followed 202 people for 18 years…found in the TM group, in comparison to controls, 30 percent fewer deaths from cardiovascular disease and 23 percent fewer deaths overall.

Newsweek: Can meditation help kids at risk? In the past decade or so, alternative and Eastern forms of health have been gaining traction in the mainstream, including for kids…TM itself, which is promoted as a 20-minute physiological technique that calms the mind and nervous system, is also showing profound results where practiced, according to proponents: better grades and SAT scores, less bullying, longer attention spans and happier kids. They point to a slew of recent medical studies to back up their claims.