MIU professor Fred Travis, Director of the MIU Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition, demonstrated how a group of meditation experts can enhance the brain functioning of others – a major step forward in understanding how the Maharishi Effect works.
– Article by Craig Pearson
Katy Perry, one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 143 million units worldwide, said that she’s turned to spirituality to get her through tough times in her life. For the last 15 years, she’s practiced transcendental meditation.
New Statesman:
The American filmmaker, who has died at the age of 78, on his lifelong practice of Transcendental Meditation. (Click to read on)
The band were so taken by Maharishi’s teachings that they made the spontaneous decision to attend his 10-day retreat in North Wales the very next day. Within weeks, Lennon and Harrison were on the British chat show hosted by the legendary broadcaster David Frost, preaching the benefits of TM across the airwaves.
Over more than a decade of interviewing successful people, Tim Ferriss has noticed two specific traits that he says most of them have in common.
They practice some type of meditation regularly, he says — and they’re good at saying “no.”
– and it has nothing to do with finance!
“[It’s] maybe the single most important reason for whatever success I’ve had,” he told the Odd Lotspodcast this week. “Meaning, it has given me an equanimity to step back, to see the arc, to accept there’s a life cycle.”
TM is the only meditation technique included, reflecting extensive evidence for its physiological and clinical benefits.
“[It’s] maybe the single most important reason for whatever success I’ve had,” he told the Odd Lotspodcast this week. “Meaning, it has given me an equanimity to step back, to see the arc, to accept there’s a life cycle.”
All at once, the experience shifts dramatically: it’s as though the writer has slipped into a deep, serene void—a wonderfully calm and restorative one. Remarkably, this state feels oddly recognisable, like drifting into sleep while remaining fully alert and aware. Others have called this sensation “falling awake.” Sharing the details with instructor Khokhlachev, he’s reassured that it indicates a genuine moment of transcendence. The session ends on a high note, leaving the writer deeply satisfied and uplifted.
The secret Eastwood keeps to preserve his longevity: meditation
In addition to a good diet and doing a lot of sports, the Californian has included in his daily habits an exercise that is becoming increasingly common among his fellow professionals and the population in general. It is meditation.
“It gives me a place to, what I call, kind of coming home to myself twice a day, no matter what’s going on. So the surface of the water, which is our life – right now, for you and I, it’s pretty calm on the surface – but whatever’s happening on the surface, if you sink down to the bottom of the ocean, it’s always calm and peaceful.”
