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Clearing Your Mind
NEA TODAY (The monthly publication of the National Education Association)
May 2006
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TM and ADHD
ABC News, Washington, DC
Monday March 06, 2006
There’s a solution for treating your child’s attention problems that doesn’t involve drugs. A new study shows that meditation may be able to replace medication for treating ADHD.
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Meditate Your Way to a Healthy Heart
PREVENTION Magazine, September 12, 2005
TM twice a day improves cardio-vascular health.
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Meditation Helps Students
International Herald Tribune, February 15, 2005
New York—New research appears to be strengthening the case for teaching transcendental meditation in U.S. schools, showing it to be a means to improve the concentration of students and a way to enhance their physical and mental well-being.
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Palace in The Woodlands promises to promote peace
ABC13—Houston, Texas, Aug 19, 2005, ( video replay: 3 min)
News feature about the inauguration of America's newest Maharishi Peace Palace.
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Can Transcendental Meditation really improve your health?
Canadian National Television (CTV), June 2, 2005, ( video replay: 4 min)
Dr. Rhonda Low describes new research on the Transcendental Meditation program, and discusses its potential for preventing illnesses and improving quality of life.
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Transcendental Meditation in Schools
NBC Today Show, June 5, 2003
View this 5-minute NBC Today's feature on Transcendental Meditation and education.
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Tapping into TM
The Orange County Register, August 10, 2005
Filmmaker David Lynch wants to share with schools the benefits he says he's reaped from Transcendental Meditation. He credits TM with enhancing his happiness, his health and — most importantly for his art — his creativity. Lynch has launched an organization — the ambitiously titled David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace — to provide the program to schools and any student who wants it.
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Meditation ‘leads to longer life’
The Guardian, May 2, 2005
A new study shows that transcendental meditation can reduce death rates by nearly a quarter.
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Meditation Calms Blood Pressure, Too
Forbes HealthDay News, February 9, 2005
Transcendental meditation (TM) reduces hypertension and cuts down on the need for blood pressure-lowering medications, according to a study in black Americans.
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Meditation and Medication
MSNBC/Newsweek, February 3, 2005
Stress-reduction techniques such as meditation may help reduce high blood pressure and the need for treatment, according to a study published in the American Journal of Hypertension last week.
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Meditation May Reduce Heart Disease Risk
Medical College of Georgia, March 2, 2005
Black adolescents with high normal blood pressure who practice transcendental meditation improve the ability of their blood vessels to relax and may reduce their risk of becoming adults with cardiovascular disease, researchers say.
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Meditate, and Feel Blood Pressure Fall
Forbes HealthDay News, March 4, 2005
Transcendental meditation (TM) may help blood vessels relax as it relaxes the mind, reducing heart disease risks along the way. That's the main finding of an eight-month study involving 111 black teens on the threshold of becoming hypertensive adults. Researchers report that just two 15-minute TM sessions per day were enough to trigger an average 21 percent increase in the ability of the teens' blood vessels to dilate.
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Relaxation best medicine for hyper students
The Examiner, March 17, 2005
Instead of rushing to pop a pill, children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder should take a 10-minute breather to increase their concentration, an Alexandria researcher says.
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More Area Firms Paying Employees to Relax
The Washington Post, March 3, 2005
Over at the Tower Cos. in Bethesda, anyone who has been on the job at least three months can walk over to the Maharishi Peace Palace two blocks away for a four-day course on meditation. The classes are gratis, courtesy of Tower. Employees can even go on company time.
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Better Grades By Meditating
CBS 2 Chicago, March 10, 2004
What if the answer to better math grades was as simple as meditation? New research shows that kids who practice transcendental meditation may get a big bonus when they hit the books.
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TM Helps Students with ADHD
KFOR-NBC-TV, OKC, June 7, 2004
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD affects as many as 2-million children in this country. The treatments vary but often include medication. Now one Washington area school is studying an alternative treatment and they say it's working.
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Construction Yoga
ABC News 7, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2005
Construction workers, architects, even maintenance men are meditating at work. Why? A new study out today may give us some insight. Scientific evidence is proving what many have believed for years — meditation improves your health.
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Meditation key to education, say school officials
Detroit Free Press, June 5, 2003
It's 8:30 on a misty Wednesday morning, and at Nataki Talibah Schoolhouse of Detroit, many of the older students are performing a twice-daily ritual that's rare in American schools. Sitting down against blue floor chairs, the students fold their arms against their green school shirts, close their eyes and focus their minds. Then they meditate.
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Higher Learning - Maharishi Prep
New Yorker Talk of the Town, March 22, 2004
Pollack has been a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation since he was ten years old, and he, along with a handful of other junior meditators, had been drafted by the New York Committee for Stress-Free Schools to demonstrate just how fantastically healthful and helpful a state of what was described as “restful alertness” could be for the city’s teen-agers."
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Iowa Town Booms On Eastern Ways
The Washington Post, August 9, 2004
When Eric Schwartz decided to move his financial services business from Silver Spring here to southeastern Iowa so he could join other practitioners of Transcendental Meditation in 1992, he worried that clients and colleagues might think he was a little crazy.
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Iowa Town Finds Success in Serenity
National Public Radio, August 31, 2004
While other towns in the region struggle, the small community of Fairfield, Iowa, has flourished through serenity. A school for Transcendental Meditation, established 30 years ago by a former guru for the Beatles, has turned the town into a thriving cultural center. Hear NPR's Greg Allen.
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