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Here are some of the qualities of the “ocean", the universal field of consciousness at the source of our thoughts that we directly experience when we transcend. These qualities are more and more enlivened in our daily life with regular practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique.

1. Life, self-awareness, intelligence and creativity

Logic tells us that no matter how many dead things you put together, they will not create life, but a living creature can however create material things with his creativity and intelligence.

According to current thinking, life is created by various material processes. According to this new position, life lies at the basis of all material processes. Logic tells us that no matter how many dead things you put together, they will not create life, but a living creature can however create material things with his creativity and intelligence, like a sculptor who creates a statue. The field at the base of the creation, which today is described as the Unified Field by physics, is a field of self-consciousness, infinite creativity and intelligence. These qualities are reflected through the human nervous system, so that we have the qualities of self-awareness, creativity and intelligence.

If we contact this source of life through the Transcendental Meditation technique, we become livelier. TM is the most successful method ever researched to improve health, intelligence, creativity and self-awareness because those qualities just grow spontaneously as we are going to experience the source directly. TM practitioners also become significantly younger the longer they practice the technique.

2. Connectedness

A robot can’t feel a connection with his environment. Man does, because we are effectively connected with each other at the source of our consciousness

At the level of the ocean, everything is connected to each other. This is the reality of fields. If one transmits a radio signal at a given point, then this radio signal can be received at each point around it, and even at all points at the same time, because each point is connected to all other points.

We experience that connection with each other when we talk about love. Love is a feeling of connectedness. Generally we experience this connectedness most strongly with people with whom we are effectively connected in daily life: family, friends, relations, but sometimes that sense of connectedness goes much further. Why do we sometimes send money to help people in a natural disaster on the other side of the world? A robot would never do this. We have absolutely no contact with these people, and yet we feel connected to them somehow.

If this quality of connectedness, grows we feel more solidarity and more love in our direct relationships, for others and in our relationship with Nature. This growing sense eventually leads to a sense of oneness with everything and everyone. As these qualities grow, it becomes harder and harder to still hurt fellow human beings (or nature ), because it feels like hurting yourself. It feels as dumb as using a hammer to hit you own fingers. A world of violence, corruption and pollution would simply be virtually impossible if everyone would regularly have this experience.

The great teachers throughout the centuries talked about unconditional love (and also demonstrated this themselves) . Transcendental Meditation fulfills this teaching in a very practical way. Unconditional love comes automatically with a growing sense of belonging and unity.

The experience of this field where everything is interconnected has an effect on the brain that can be measured accurately.

The experience of this level where everything is interconnected has an effect on the brain that can be accurately measured these days by Magnetic Resonance Imaging and electroencephalogram (EEG). The different parts of the brain will function more in unity, they become literally more connected with each other, which has a measurable effect on intelligence. This is why with TM, we can measure a growth in intelligence and creativity that is considered virtually impossible (see brains).

3 The pure good, happiness

On the everyday level of life, we speak of contradictions. Any quality is defined in relation to its opposite: hot-cold, love-hate, happiness-sadness. As long as the mind functions only at this level, it is carried away by external circumstances. If those circumstances are right, we feel good, if they are not right, we feel bad. At the level of the ocean, the unified field, one speaks of unity. There, all contradictions disappear and only one quality remains. Ancient Vedic texts described this as “pure good", a purely positive quality. Plato also spoke of “the good". The pure good is generally a quality used to describe the “divine".

At this level, there is only the pure good, what we experience as growth, peace and internal happiness

It’s this pure positive quality that makes everything in life grow and evolve. Even though this growth passes through several cycles (rest and activity, life and death, etc ), the final result is always growth. Life and growth go together. This is why it is natural to always want more and better. The mind knows that stagnation and life don’t go together.

We experience this quality of pure positivity as bliss. The mind is always looking for happiness in whatever we do, because this is its true nature. But by always being focused outward, and by trying to find happiness in external circumstances, we cut ourselves off from an infinite reservoir of happiness within us. However, if we give the mind a chance to regularly experience its true nature, then this quality of bliss will grow in daily life as well, until we reach a state where we feel inner happiness, independent of the external circumstances, 24/7. This is a state of true inner freedom. This is the real potential of a life with a human nervous system.

A state where all opposites merge into unity is also a state of perfect inner peace. Conflicts come from opposites. When they disappear, so does every conflict.

You can’t fight the darkness, you can only turn on the light

If everyone would experience this state frequently there is no reason why there should be anything negative in our society. This may sound utopian, but ultimately negative is just a lack of positive, dark only a lack of light. The reason why it may sometimes seem quite dark is because we have forgotten how to turn on the light. We have forgotten how to enliven the positive, how we can go back to the source of all positive. Maharishi always said “you can not fight the darkness, you can only bring the light."And as we light the light in ourselves, we also enlighten the environment around us, as shown by the research mentioned on this site.

4. Omniscient

Everyone has already experienced that sometimes there’s a level where we know a lot more than our superficial, conscious mind.

At the level of the ocean, the level where everything is interconnected, everything is also known. Whenever we get a gut feeling, or be amazed at the “magic " gifts of some psychic who seems to know things that no one else knows, we get a glimpse of this reality. Everyone has already experienced this in their own way, but because we can not explain it with the current theory about the mind, it is generally dismissed as quackery.

People that begin to experience this reality regularly as they learn the Transcendental Meditation technique, notice changes that go far beyond just a better intuition. They find that they spontaneously get more and more of the right thoughts at the right time. It’s like a cosmic supercomputer knowing all the consequences of all possible thoughts in advance can calculate and then picks out the most positive in line with its purely evolutionary nature. A TM practitioner does not try to get the right ideas at the right time. They just come spontaneously. The result is more success in life, in all areas.

5. Infinite organizing power

If everything is created from this Unified Field, then this means that this field should have an infinite organizing power. The motion of every atom and every event in nature is organized in a very intelligent way, according to certain laws that we call natural laws. This field can create everything from itself and coordinate everything from that level of consciousness, the level of the mind.

Everyone influences the entire cosmos with every thought he has, but usually that influence is so weak that we do not notice the difference in everyday life.

There are thousands of self-help books that talk about the power of thought, and the importance of positive thinking. We create our own reality, so they say. There are even different high quality scientific studies that show that people can influence physical events with the power of their mind. The effect is there, and it is statistically very significant, but it is very small, not enough to really make a practical difference. Given that most of us only use a very small part of our real mental power, we hardly notice the power of our thoughts in daily life. A thought on the most superficial level of the mind is like trying to throw a rock into a lake from a very great distance. One can only have a very small rock and create tiny waves on the water. But if one would come closer to the lake, than one can throw a much larger stone, creating a much stronger effect. It has been noticed in several research studies that an influence from deeper levels of our (sub) consciousness can be much stronger.

People who learn the Transcendental Meditation technique find that their minds get more support from nature. They wish for something, and suddenly it seems so that all circumstances are cooperating to make that wish come true. In religious terms, one could say that it is just as if the " will of God " supports the desire. There is an advanced Transcendental Meditation technique, which has the specific purpose to strengthen the power of thought called the TM Sidhi Programme.

6. Invincibility

Maharishi often used the word invincibility to describe the real potential of human life. As all the qualities of the unified field, or ocean, become more and more present in a person, then less and less can bring this person out of balance. Inner happiness becomes invincible: no external event can influence it any more. Self-consciousness becomes invincible: we remain ourselves and nothing can overshadow us. Creativity becomes invincible: we can always find a perfect, creative solution to any problem. In addition, all circumstances will contribute to bring the solution to fulfillment.

People start the Transcendental Meditation technique for different reasons: for health reasons or because they want to feel better or to have self-confidence. All these things do improve, but they are really just side-benefits of what is really happening. If the qualities of the source of life become more enlivened in the mind, then all aspects of life improve, one becomes more and more invincible. When one talks about higher states of consciousness or enlightenment, this is what is meant, a state of invincibility.

We usually describe a “divine" reality with the words " love, omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence. These are exactly the qualities one enlivens with TM step by step.

When we talk about a divine reality, then we usually describe it with words such as pure love on one hand and omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence on the other hand. These are indeed the qualities of this field on the basis of our individual consciousness. By going to the source of our thoughts, we start experiencing this field as our true inner nature. We can therefore start to say in a more scientific way that we come into contact with something higher, something divine. It is very difficult to explain the spectacular effects of Transcendental Meditation if one looks at the technique as a relaxation technique, but if we understand what it really is, a way to bring us back in touch with our true inner, divine nature, then it starts to sound more logical that we become smarter, younger, healthier, more confident, more loving and more successful. Then it sounds much more logical that an alcoholic or drug addict no longer needs his fix, or that there are 90% fewer cases of cardio-vascular disease. Then it can even begin to sound logical that something is beginning to fundamentally change in the environment.

For clarity, Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, because there is no question of worshiping a deity. Religions are linked to cultures, and each culture has its own way to worship the higher consciousness. But different cultures also have things in common, and these things are described by science. Gravity works equally for people from different religions. It works equally well whether you believe in it or not. Transcendental Meditation is at this level. It works equally well for people from different religions. It works equally well whether you believe in it or not. It is that aspect of every religion that has been lost over time. This is why thousands of TM practitioners of all religions around the world found that TM has brought them closer to their own religion.

Can we really talk about a scientific reality here?

超覺 = 遠遠不只是放鬆

雖然用靜坐放鬆來管理壓力已經愈來愈普遍，但唯有真正體驗「超覺」，才會帶來遠比「放鬆」更深的完整效益。世界上許多最古老的知識傳統中許多文獻都描述過「超覺」：那是一種人類至高的經驗，對人類的完全發展至為關鍵。但很可惜，如何輕易進入「超覺」的知識早就失傳已久。直到最近，這珍貴的知識才再度被復興起來。透過當代科學測量超覺靜坐練習時生理（特別是大腦）產生的變化，我們可以確定上述事實。因為我們發現：

極深的休息：遠比一般的放鬆更深；達到的休息狀態甚至比睡眠還深。
內在的快樂：壓力荷爾蒙明顯減少，快樂荷爾蒙顯著增加。
全腦的發展：通過腦電波(EEG)可測量到極為珍貴的腦波協調發展。

這一切都讓「超覺靜坐」為生命所有領域帶來極大效益。

超覺 = 極深的休息

當心智超越了思想最精細的脈動時，它便進入一種完全的內在寧靜狀態。此狀態的達成是完全自然且毫不費力的。我們不能努力讓心智安靜下來，也沒必要這麼做。採用正確的技術，心智便會自己去到那寧靜的狀態。當心智超覺時，身體也自動達成一種極深度的放鬆狀態，甚至比睡眠還更深許多。

這種深度休息可以很容易通過測量耗氧量而客觀地加以測量。註

本圖得自美國哈佛大學醫學院的一項研究，顯示練習超覺靜坐時，身體所達成的休息狀態甚至比睡覺時的最深休息狀態還要更深兩倍。世界各地有超過30項的科研都已確認，練習超覺靜坐時，會產生深度的休息。

這樣的深度休息啟動了我們身體內在的療癒力。

放鬆的意思，是把緊張鬆解開來。身體有一種完全自然的方式，可以去除所累積下來的一切緊張。我們睡覺就是為此目地。但是，睡覺所達成的休息並不深到足以去除根深柢固的創傷性壓力。而超覺正好就可以達成此一目的。

上述效果對最需要深度休息的人而言，最為顯著。最近，針對伊拉克退役軍人的一項研究顯示，在練習超覺靜坐只是八週的時間之後，「創傷後壓力症候群」(PTSD)和憂鬱的症狀減少了50%。註

由於效果如此顯著，CNN還特別在「美國退伍軍人日」(US Veteran’s Day)節目裡加以報導。（觀看 CNN 影片) 本研究再次證實，早在25年前對越戰退伍軍人進行過之研究結果的真確性。

PTSD,-anxiety,-depression

在本研究中，超覺靜坐組在創傷後壓力症候群、焦慮症、憂鬱症、失眠症等方面的症狀，顯著減少。因此，在三個月的練習後，70%的退伍軍人便不再需要治療。而接受正規心理治療的對照組則顯示無改善。註

飽受戰爭摧殘的這些人，他們的問題比我們一般人要嚴重許多，在其他方法都很有限甚至無效的情況，超覺靜坐卻都可以有效改善他們的狀態，我們就可以想見超覺靜坐可以對我們每一個人所帶來的效益了。

以下影片中的數個案例，說明超覺靜坐在幫助受創傷性壓力之苦的人們方面，其效果是多麼顯著。本片也說明，為什麼全球愈來愈多的科學家、教育者、社會名流，以及政府機構都在支持與推動超覺靜坐技術。

超覺 = 內在的快樂

壓力干擾大腦，使之無法正常運作，進而造成許多問題。其中一個問題，就是「快樂荷爾蒙」（即血液中的血清素）分泌減少。血清素不足時，我們的內在快樂感便受到影響。甚至偏頭痛、睡眠障礙、焦慮、易怒、阿滋海默症、飲食不正常、成癮症，以及其他許多問題都與血清素分泌不足有關。雖然我們可以試圖以人為的方式（例如：使用抗憂鬱藥物）去影響血清素的分泌，但這只處理了表面的症狀，並沒有處理到真正的問題。

serotonin 來看看另一方面，超覺的體驗啟動了身體自己的療癒力，進而使大腦正常運作。其結果便是，在超覺靜坐練習時，血清素分泌完全自動增加，到後來則是練習後的其他時間裡，血清素也自動分泌。註

誠如讀者在本網站所發現的，各種正面效益也會展現在命所有領域之中。

超覺 = 全腦的發展

超覺靜坐不但對健康及整體康寧感有益、可提高自我價值感、促進人際關係，而且還能開發大腦。就連被認為已發展完全的成人大腦，也可繼續得到開發。這麼簡單的內在體驗，是如何以一種被認為是不可能的方式對大腦產生影響（例如：改善注意力不足過動症、成人智力和創造力都提高）的呢？對此我們需要稍加說明。（詳超覺 = 人類經驗的最高境界）

上述效益明顯是可測量的。例如：透過腦電波(EEG)協調性來測量。

每次我們大腦的某部份在活動時，透過腦電波便可以測量到大腦中電流的活動情形，並以一種波型來顯示測量的結果。現在，我們可以從大腦不同部位同時送兩種波型到電腦上，並用數學的方式計算這兩種波型同步或協調的程度。高度協調是指，大腦的這些不同部位像個整體般在運作。

超覺基本上是對合一性的體驗。（詳超覺 = 人類經驗的最高境界）我們可以在大腦中直接測量到此一體驗。在以下的影片中，可看到超覺靜坐練習時，電腦即時顯示的腦電波協調性升至最高的情形。

一個人愈能體驗到大腦的這種腦電波高度協調性，他的大腦便愈能充份運用。到最後，即便是在超覺靜坐練習之外的時間，腦電波的高度協調性依舊維持著。較高的腦電波協調性與較高的智商、較高的創造力、更穩定的情緒、更佳的反應力，以及更好的道德推理等能力有關。（詳超覺 = 開發大腦）

如何學習超覺？

純正的靜坐是毫不費力的，而且練習起來也很愉快。人人都能學習，並且有立即的效果。

超覺的體驗唯有用一種完全自然且毫不費力的方式才可達成。那是一種對於完全的、內在的寧靜的體驗，並非通過努力保持安靜而達成。愈努力要保持安靜，你的心智便愈活躍。這就是為什麼最近的一些講究專注集中的靜坐方法，其效果不大的原因。

超覺靜坐技術由受訓的專業教師，以個別方式進行指導。這些指導老師知道如何用完全自然的方式，帶領每一個人去體驗超覺。

一旦人對超覺有所體驗了，心智便會記住這體驗。接下來要再體驗，就變得很自然，就是一種完全自然且不費力的方式。當然，前提是練習者採用了正確的技術。超覺靜坐技術採步驟性的教學，以連續四次見面的方式進行。初步的學習完成後，尚有後續的追蹤，以確保練習持續正確。

用一小時瞭解超覺靜坐改變生命的關鍵

前往以下這些聯結，您可以獲得更多資料，包括：超覺靜坐是什麼和它如何奏效以及如何學習。不過，最有效的第一步就是參加一場免費的諮詢講座，獲得必要的知識。在全球各大城市都有國際認證師資定期舉辦免費諮詢講座（詳免費介紹說明會的日期和地點）參加說明會，便能獲得更詳細的知識，瞭解超覺靜坐技術是如何奏效的。還有，您可以期待什麼樣的效益。所有的相關問題都會獲得解答，有助於您決定後續的學習發展。

注意力不足過動症的症狀減少了

我們進行了一項隨機分配的試點研究，對象是 18 位 11–14 歲注意力不足過動症的學生，探討超覺靜坐對學生們的任務績效和大腦運作的效益。學生們進行研究前先做測試，然後隨機被選為第1組學習超覺靜坐組或第2組延遲學習的控制組，3–6 個月後，進行後期測試。延遲學習的學生在3 個月後進行後期測試，然後才學習超覺靜坐。第一組練習3個月超覺靜坐後，theta/beta 的比率明顯下降， theta 協調性提高，alpha 和 beta 1 的協調性也都趨向高點，以及字母的流暢性也提高了。在6個月後的後期測試中，第2組延遲學習組在練習了3個月的超覺靜坐後，同樣的，他們的 theta/beta 的比率下降以及字母流暢性提高了。還有，通過家長調查的報導，在這 6 個月的研究中，全體學生的 5 項注意力不足過動症的症狀都得到改進。

姬蒂‧佩芮對兩千五百萬粉絲說：支持 TM

姬蒂的事業如日中天。2011年，她是第一個打破麥可‧傑克森同張專輯五首冠軍暢銷曲記錄的歌手。去年生日時，她給兩千五百萬粉絲發出推特發文呼籲他們支持《大衛·林區基金會》。

《大衛·林區基金會》的目標是讓最需要超覺靜坐技術的人都學到。姬蒂已練習超覺靜坐兩年多了，她說它是她一生中做過最棒的事，靜坐為她的人生帶來更多創意，正面能量與寧靜。

她說：「當我感到疲倦、緊繃、害怕或沮喪時，我便會靜坐。它釐清我的思緒，讓我感覺更輕鬆，更快樂。我和我的朋友分享這些體驗，我推薦我所有朋友靜坐。

「我支持《大衛·林區基金會》因為它把超覺靜坐帶給全世界數百萬人，包括飽受創傷後壓力症候群之苦的大戰退伍軍人，大城市裡的貧困孩童，以及暴力受害者的女孩與女人。」

「為慶祝我的生日，請捐款給《大衛·林區基金會》。這對我個人而言不僅意義深重，對你所幫助的人更是如此。」

Exceptional results confirmed by exceptional studies

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the health institute of the American government, and the largest medical research institute in the world, has spent over $24 million USD over the last 20 years in support of research on Transcendental Meditation, for one simple reason: It is the only alternative method that works.

A recent randomised, controlled study among 123 patients with very high blood pressure (179/104 mm Hg for example) found a decrease of 10.7/6.4 mm Hg after only 3 months among TM practitioners. The control group received health education information, but showed no decrease.

Another large-scale comparative study of the NIH, that compared all alternative methods to each other, demonstrated that Transcendental Meditation was the only method that could trigger a significant decrease in blood pressure (p=.0002). Other meditation or relaxation techniques showed no significant effect (click on the graph to enlarge it).

These studies have led to a publication from the American Heart Association recommending TM, as the only effective meditation technique for clinical treatment of high blood pressure.

An effect on blood pressure…with positive side effects

Medication can lower blood pressure, but often comes with all kinds of unpleasant side effects. In TM practitioners the decrease in blood pressure is in many cases similar to or even greater than that achieved through medication, but in itself even is just a side effect of a much deeper change that occurs when one activates the body’s own healing power. Ultimately everything improves simultaneously when we learn to find ourself: all aspects of health, happiness, our brain development, our self-confidence and our relationships with others.

In this video Dr. Oz, the world’s most famous heart surgeon, known to us through the Dr. Oz show on Vitaya, describes the effects of TM on blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes and general heart problems.

Transcending = an exceptional deep state of rest

When the mind comes to a full state of rest in a completely natural manner, the body also comes to a very deep state of rest, much deeper than sleep. Scientists are able to objectively confirm this.

This graph, from a study at Harvard University, shows that during TM practice almost instantly a state of physical relaxation is reached that is much deeper than even the deepest rest during sleep.

It is this state of deep rest that activates the body’s inner power to heal itself.

We all know that relaxation really is “de-tensing", a state in which the body naturally relaxes its tensions. The body can eliminate the deepest tensions it may have, even traumatic stress, as long as the state of rest is deep enough. This has an instant effect on blood pressure.

Here is a video that will allow you to discover why more and more scientists, teachers, celebrities and government support the TM technique.

How does Transcendental Meditation work?

Real meditation is effortless and pleasant, can be learned by anyone, and offers instant results.

When one thinks about “meditation", one usually thinks of the manipulation of the mind to come to a state of inner peace, through a form of concentration (on a sound, a visual point, breathing, or “being in the now"). However, this goes against the spirit’s nature, requires disciplined practice, and is fundamentally ineffective to bring the mind to silence, because the more one attempts to silence the mind, the more the mind is kept active.

The Transcendental Meditation technique is taught entirely personally by a professionally trained teacher that is able to guide anyone to a state of total silence in a fully natural manner. Once this has been experienced it will be engraved in the memory and the spirit will fully spontaneously return to it, in a fully natural and effortless manner, on the condition that the correct technique is employed. This technique is explained step by step, 4 days in a row, followed by an extensive programme to ensure the correct practice of it.

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How can such a simple technique have such profound effects on all areas of life? Discover what exactly transcending is, and how it can easily be reached in a simple, effortless manner.

Transcending = Being Yourself
Transcending = Deep relaxation
Transcending = Inner peace and happiness
Transcending = In contact with our true selves

威利‧萬杜仁

超覺靜坐技術真是獨特啊。

我已經靜坐幾乎三十年了。我的一般健康狀況非常良好，尤其是跟同輩的朋友們比起來的話。不但我的創造力有非常明顯的成長，同時我和工作人員以及演員們的相處和應對，都讓他們感到鼓舞。

一個這麼簡單又自然的技術，竟可以產生如此宏大的正面效益。我每天依然因此而感到驚訝。再說，練習起來也很愉快啊。

英國和巴西政府都支持TM教育

Screen-Shot-2013-04-15-at-10.33.29-300x183 最近，英國政府決定了在經濟上支持英國瑪哈禮希學校所進行的試點項目—TM教育。政府還提供基金以建設幾所新的瑪哈禮希學校。

In 在巴西，教育局甚至決定把超覺靜坐納入成為全國 38,000 所公立學校的教育課程裡標準部分。在未來幾年，將會有大約 3千萬學生學習超覺靜坐。在墨西哥和美國三藩市，教育部門也在支持學校實行TM 教育。

妮娜‧凡‧賀維根

我參加過許許多多靜坐課程。不過，我老是覺得有什麼地方不對勁。我找不到想要的東西，我不滿足。學了超覺靜坐之後，我覺得像是回到家了。我終於找到它了！

休•傑克曼: 超覺靜坐改變了我的人生

休·傑克曼(Hugh Jackman)最近在英國版的《哈芬登郵報》(The Huffington Post)接受歐普拉·溫芙蕾(Oprah Winfrey)訪問談到超覺靜坐在他私人與專業生活中所扮演的重要角色。他說：「靜坐改變了我的人生。」

「從來沒有任何事物像超覺靜坐那樣打開我的眼界。它讓我感到平靜，快樂。它讓我的喧鬧生活中獲得些許詳和與寧靜！」

Hugh Jackman

「身為人夫、人父，也是角色扮演的一種。但在那些角色底下是連繫我們每個人的靈性中心，那才是最重要的。」

「靜坐中，我能放下所有一切。我不再是休·傑克曼。不再是個父親，不再是個丈夫。我深深浸入那創造萬物的強大泉源。我沉浸於其中。」
當被問及如何在繁忙生活中抽出時間進行超覺靜坐，他回答道：

「每個人天天都要洗澡，沒有人抱怨。我們基於紀律而行動。人總會找各種理由不靜坐。自我會說：‘你不需要靜坐，老兄。你真的很忙。那孩子怎麼辦？’但我會說：‘我今天不能洗澡因為我得抽時間陪孩子’嗎？當然不會。」

歐普拉‧溫芙蕾談超覺靜坐：「我靜坐之後比原來好一千倍。」

在這段接受奧茲醫生(Dr. Oz)的訪談中，歐普拉(Oprah Winfrey)談到她如何學習超覺靜坐，和她出資讓名下公司所有四百名員工學習超覺靜坐，以及超覺靜坐帶來的種種改變。

「早上九點和下午四點半，無論正在做麼，我們都會停下來練習靜坐。」溫芙蕾說：「公司裡出現的轉變，讓你根本無法想像。有些人之前有偏頭痛，現在不痛了。有些人睡眠品質變得更好，人際關係更順暢，與他人互動也更為理想。效果真的很棒。」至於她自己，她說自己變得百分之一千更好。透過超覺靜坐，她讓自己接觸到超越自我的更棒的境界。

歐普拉在拍攝美國愛荷華州費爾菲市(Fairfield, Iowa)的超覺靜坐社區記錄片時首次接觸到超覺靜坐。在這部四十五分鐘的記錄片中，興致高昂的歐普拉對整個社區很明顯感到萬分佩服，包括該市著名的超低犯罪率、瑪赫西學校的卓越成就、先進的綠化環保技術、健康生活模式的熱情追求、健康飲食、健全的房屋設計，以及卓越的創業家精神。費爾菲市被選為全美最成功的小型創業社區之一。

美國心臟協會： TM 真棒！

aha 美國心臟協會不久前發表了一項結論，對醫師說明TM 對於減低高血壓有很好的效益，醫師可以開方讓超覺靜坐技術成為高血壓病人的臨床治療。其他靜坐技術如正念靜坐都沒有被建議，因為缺少足夠的效益證明。

大衛‧林區: 真正的快樂就在內心

過去幾年來，大衛·林區(David Lynch)比任何人更積極投入介紹超覺靜坐技術給廣泛大眾。他練習超覺靜坐已逾37年，他說他從未錯過任何一次靜坐。他把自己具傳奇性的創造力歸功於練習超覺靜坐。幾年前，他出席一場在愛荷華州費爾菲市瑪赫西學校的戲劇表演，學生的演出讓他十分刮目相看，便決定投注畢生精力提供更多學生機會發揮他們的創意潛力。2005年，他成立了《大衛·林區基金會》，提供財務支援給那些極需要的人學習超覺靜坐技術。自此之後，該基金會將超覺靜坐帶給全世界二十五萬名學生，戰後退伍軍人，監獄犯人以及飽受創傷後壓力症候群困擾人士。

欲知詳情請登錄www.davidlynchfoundation.org

保羅‧麥卡尼: 超覺靜坐是一份「終身禮物」

《披頭四合唱團》(Beatles)是有史以來最出名的超覺靜坐靜友。四十五年之後，他們仍持續靜坐並公開支持超覺靜坐。在大衛·林區基金會的慈善音樂會的記者招待會上，保羅·麥卡尼(Paul McCartney)與林哥‧史塔(Ringo Starr)久違多年首度同台表演。保羅說：

「這是瑪赫西給予我們的一份偉大禮物。當時是六十年代末期，我們那時正在尋找能讓我們沉定下來的東西，這是一份終身禮物。這是你隨時能依靠的東西。」

保羅·麥卡尼之後接受大衛·林區訪問時解釋他為何支持大衛·林區基金會：

「孩童們都喜歡超覺靜坐，巴西的孩子們喜歡它，約旦河西岸地區的孩童們喜歡它…我認為這是人們需要的，人們不需要道貌岸然的講演，他們需要的是結果。」

克林‧伊斯威特: 練習超覺靜坐四十年

著名演員，製片，作曲家以及電影工作者克林·伊斯威特(Clint Eastwood)已忠實練習超覺靜坐技術長達四十多年。他的無限精力與創意讓年歲已高的他至今仍不斷獲得奧斯卡金像獎提名。他是超覺靜坐能為長期練習者帶來哪些好處的絕佳見證者。他在大衛·林區基金會成立時拍攝的一段影片中談到超覺靜坐技術的許多好處。

《戰士身心健康行動》(Operation Warrior Wellness)是為全美一萬名飽受創傷後壓力症候群之苦的退伍軍人提供的超覺靜坐教學項目。（詳見：創傷後壓力症候群）

威廉‧海格：練習超覺靜坐三十年

在2010年4月17日《時代雜誌》的一篇新聞訪談中，英國外交大臣威廉·海格(William Hague )透露他已練習超覺靜坐三十多年。他說每天總會在忙碌事程中騰出兩段二十分鐘進行靜坐，他的理由非常實際：「靜坐讓我沉靜下來，我頭痛機率變少了，睡眠品質變得更好。」

凱蒂‧佩芮: 超覺靜坐是為我的人生帶來更多創意，正面能量與寧靜的最佳方法

姬蒂‧佩芮(Katy Perry)的事業如日中天。2011年，她是第一個打破麥可‧傑克森同張專輯五首冠軍暢銷曲記錄的歌手。去年生日時，她給兩千五百萬粉絲發出推特發文呼籲他們支持《大衛·林區基金會》。

姬蒂已練習超覺靜坐兩年多了，她說它是她一生中做過最棒的事，靜坐為她的人生帶來更多創意，正面能量與寧靜。她說：「當我感到疲倦、緊繃、害怕或沮喪時，我便會靜坐。它釐清我的思緒，讓我感覺更輕鬆，更快樂。我和我的朋友分享這些體驗，我推薦我所有朋友靜坐。」

「為慶祝我的生日，請捐款給《大衛·林區基金會》。這對我個人而言不僅意義深重，對你所幫助的人更是如此。」

歡迎觀賞美國音樂名人姬蒂‧佩芮的超覺靜坐經驗談影片。

喬治‧盧卡斯

四十多年前，喬治·盧卡斯(George Lucas )學習了超覺靜坐。網路上傳聞他的電影星際大戰系列裡的「原力」(The Force)靈感來自瑪赫西的「智能科學」(Science of Creative Intelligence)，這是超覺靜坐技術的理論性背景（在此亦可解釋為深入接觸個人的超我）。喬治·盧卡斯最近出面全力支持大衛·林區基金會的成立。他的教育烏托邦計畫(Edutopia)（喬治·盧卡斯教育基金會）網站最近推出一段影片描述超覺靜坐在舊金山一所學校推動「安靜時間」 (Quiet Time)的卓越成效。詳情請看超覺靜坐教育烏托邦影片。

在參觀過舊金山一所練習超覺靜坐的學校之後，教育烏托邦計畫的主編說：「每當參觀成效卓越的學校時，總會看到令人驚異萬分的現象；如此非凡現象讓人不得不停下來，確定眼前所見一切果真如此。」

傑利‧塞恩佛：練習超覺靜坐已四十年

傑利‧塞恩佛(Jerry Seinfeld)是美國最受歡迎喜劇演員之一，他已練習超覺靜坐將近四十年。

在這段「早安美國」的訪談中，他描述超覺靜坐的部份好處。

莫比：沒有任何靜坐技術比超覺靜坐效果更理想

莫比(Moby )在《大衛‧林區基金會》記者會上談論超覺靜坐。

羅素·布蘭德

這段娛樂性十足的影片是知名搞怪喜劇演員羅素·布蘭德(Russell Brand )最近在《大衛·林區基金會》慈善晚會上擔任主持人的實況。羅素·布蘭德以他不按牌理出牌方式侃侃而談超覺靜坐。

葛妮絲·派特

Gwyneth Paltrow 剛學習超覺靜坐的葛妮絲·派特(Gwenneth Paltrow)近日在她的網站上宣佈將出售她的大部分服飾衣著。目的在於支持《大衛‧林區基金會》，支持超覺靜坐在教育領域的宣導推動。

馬丁·史柯西斯

馬丁·史柯西斯(Martin Scorcese )是當代最負盛名的電影導演之一。史柯西斯先生幾年前學習了超覺靜坐，因個人體驗結果良好，現在經常公開支持這項靜坐技術。這段為《大衛‧林區基金會》協助退伍軍人克服創傷後壓力症候群錄製的推廣影片便是他的見證。

艾倫·狄珍妮：超覺靜坐是我唯一覺得二十分鐘結束得太快的靜坐

艾倫·狄珍妮(Ellen Degeneres )是繼歐普拉·溫芙蕾之後，全美最知名的談話性節目主持人。在這段影片中，她在大衛‧林區基金會慈善晚會中的一席演講談到她練習超覺靜坐的體驗，以及她為何如此喜歡超覺靜坐。

連魯柏特‧梅鐸也練習超覺靜坐

媒體大亨魯柏特‧梅鐸(Rupert Murdoch)是全球首富兼具影響力人士之一。他最近在推特寫道：「我正在學習超覺靜坐。每個人都推薦。剛開始並不容易，但聽說生命中所有層面都將獲得改善！」

奧茲醫生：超覺靜坐的確奏效

Dr Oz 根治壓力肇因，所有後遺症將隨之消失蹤影，甚至包括心血管疾病。

梅麥特奧茲醫生(Dr. Mehmet Oz )在醫療保健方面影響至深，2008年《時代雜誌》將他名列為全球一百名最具影響力人士的第四十四位。他在紐約一家著名醫院擔任心臟科主任，撰寫過許多專業書籍，目前主持一個在全球各地播送的電視節目。

奧茲醫生過去幾年來持續練習超覺靜坐，並支付費用讓他的電視節目兩百名員工學習超覺靜坐。他定期在公開場合談論此靜坐技術，並解釋超覺靜坐如何對血壓、糖尿病、膽固醇以及心血管疾病造成影響，其作用是藥物有時無法比擬的。他說超覺靜坐能夠「對我們認為無法改變的事情造成影響」。

Faster growth of creativity among students

In Taiwan 362 secondary school students were randomly divided into 4 groups, a TM group and 3 control groups. The 3 control groups included: 1) a resting group, 2) a group practicing contemplation meditation, and 3) a group which received no specific attention. After 6 to 12 months the TM group showed a significant improvement in 5 different scales of intellectual capability, including a scale for “whole brain creativity” as compared to the 3 control groups. The difference in growth was so significant and so consistent that the probability of chance was 1 in 1.2 billion p=.0000000008. (what is a p-value?) The TM students also showed a significant decrease in stress symptoms.

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狄爾瑪·羅塞夫

現任巴西總統狄爾瑪·羅塞夫(Dilma Rousseff )是一位熱愛超覺靜坐的靜友。她並且將靜坐推薦給民眾。她曾經說過：「我透過跑步讓我的身體保持健康，我透過超覺靜坐保持心靈健康。」

全球最大規模超覺靜坐教學計畫之一正在巴西如火如荼進行中，包括在該國所有三萬八千所公立學校中將超覺靜坐納入教學內容中。

莉芙‧泰勒

莉芙‧泰勒(Liv Tyler )約一年前開始超覺靜坐。自此之後便非常熱中支持《大衛·林區基金會》的活動。

超級模特兒瑞卡兒·齊默曼談超覺靜坐

從2008年到2010年的模特兒網站www.models.com，瑞卡兒·齊默曼(Raquel Zimmerman )一直穩坐全球頂尖名模第一名寶座。目前她是「名模史」名單上的第十四位世界名模。她和她丈夫住在紐約。在這段影片中，她談到練習超覺靜坐所獲得的好處，還有她支持《大衛·林區基金會》的理由。

雪瑞兒·可洛

雪瑞兒·可洛(Sheryl Crow )已練習超覺靜坐許多年。她參加《大衛·林區基金會》慈善音樂會表演，該表演旨在將超覺靜坐帶給一百萬名在校年輕學子。在這段影片中，她將解釋為何要這麼做。

3000 名佛教和尚學習 TM

很多靜坐形式都是由佛教發起的。但是在東方，很多佛教專家都練習超覺靜坐。東南亞的 100 所寺院裡，有超過 3,000 名和尚學習超覺靜坐技術。他們都很享受TM 簡單容易的技術，以及它所帶來的深切好處。

TM: 泰國佛教學校成功的秘訣

泰國有一所佛教寄宿學校(The Dhammajarine e Witthaya Free School )，成立以提供一個機會給貧窮家庭孩子受良好的教育。數年前，學校推行超覺靜坐並將它納入成為課程的一部分。因而有超過400名學生學習了TM 技術，同時察覺到超覺靜坐在他們生命中所帶來的效益。其中很多孩子都有暴力和性虐待的背景。他們敘述TM 如何幫助他們克服創傷經歷。觀看影片 Watch the video.

CNN: TM 征服創傷後壓力症候群

cnn story 美國電視新聞網 CNN 最近發表一項報告 (觀看CNN 影片watch the CNN video)，討論超覺靜坐對嚴重創傷壓力的效益。報導TM 在治療退伍軍人克服創傷非常有效。美國老兵事務部門 (American Department of Veterans Affairs)因此發放250 萬美元給諾維奇 (Norwich)，美國最古老的軍校，以支持更進一步的超覺靜坐科研。現在，TM 已經成為老軍校的標準訓練部分。

時代雜誌: TM 對心臟很好

11月14日，時代雜誌網絡版(Time Magazine) 發表了一篇文章，有關一項和美國國立衛生研究院 (NIH) 合作的卓越研究。這項研究跟進 201 名心臟病者長達 5 年。與對照組比較，研究發現練習超覺靜坐組的心臟發作，中風和死亡事件的發生少過 48% 。靜坐者越規律靜坐，效益越大。「不規律靜坐組顯示下降率43%，規律靜坐組顯示下降率61%」。閱讀完整文章 full Time article