TM - Transcendental Meditation

by Robert Roth

Searching for a meditation technique? Learn about the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique in this lively introduction by Robert Roth. More than five million people of all ages, cultures, and religions have learned this simple, natural technique and use it daily to reduce stress, improve their health, unfold their full potential and radiate peace. The book explains the TM technique, an easily-learned mental technique practiced for 20 minutes twice daily which was introduced to the US in 1959 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Roth writes:
"Maharishi's message then was simple and direct, and it's the same today. Life is bliss. Man is born to enjoy. Within everyone is an unlimited reservoir of energy, intelligence, and happiness. Transcendental Meditation is a simple, effortless procedure to experience it."
The book describes the experience of restful alertness during the TM technique. The mind settles down effortlessly to a silent, yet fully awake, state of awareness while the body gains a profound state of rest. The author explores the holistic benefits arising from this experience using fascinating anecdotes from meditators as well as selected research from the over 600 studies on the technique. He presents a convincing argument for how the TM technique can solve the challenging problems of spiraling health costs, job stress, rising crime and world peace.
"Only a new seed can yield a new crop. Only new knowledge, new principles, and new programs can put an end to conflict, sickness, and suffering, and prevent such problems from arising in the future. Only new knowledge can create a healthy, prosperous, harmonious society and a peaceful world."
-- Maharishi
Included in the book are impressive results from meta-analyses comparing different meditation and relaxation techniques showing that the TM technique is the most effective technique for reducing anxiety, decreasing substance abuse, increasing self-actualization and improving psychological health. The book prepares readers for personalized instruction in the TM technique by a trained teacher at TM Centers located throughout the world.
Robert Roth is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable exponents of the Transcendental Meditation technique in North America. He is an executive director of the David Lynch Foundation, which has provided scholarships to over 120,000 at-risk students to learn the Transcendental Meditation technique. Roth has organized and hosted fundraisers for the David Lynch Foundation featuring TM meditators such as Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Mehmet Oz, M.D., Russell Brand and Katy Perry. He also serves as a national director of the Transcendental Meditation Program USA and an executive director of the Center for Leadership Performance, which offers in-house Transcendental Meditation programs to business and industry.

Genres: Meditation

174 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1987

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm giving this one star because I don't want people to think I didn't rate it! This was basically an advertisement for TM instead of really telling you about it and how to go about it. Guess they don't want their trade secrets to get out since they charge $1500 for you to learn how to do this if you go to one of their centers. In the book, it talks about how if more people did this that it would make the world a better place (as in less crime, better health & lower health care costs, etc.). If that's the case and the TM center is a non-profit, then why aren't they teaching people for free to make the world better?

[Jeanne Cumby · Rating 1 out of 5]

Sales job all the way. After the first chapter or two you just say "Okay. I get it." and stop reading. I flipped through the rest just to make sure there wasn't anything substantive. It does have a section on what to expect when you go to the expensive ( at least I assume it's expensive) school where you will learn the TM technique. It gives you no instruction at all on how to begin to learn it yourself.

[Rebecca · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read bits of this years ago and was really confused by it for a long time because it doesn't talk about TM at all really, just talks about how beneficial it is over and over, without saying what it is, and discourages you from trying it on your own.

Instead it says you need to go to a guru and spend months (and dollars) with them so they can get to know you and tell you exactly what mantra suits you, because if you chant using a mantra that hasn't been tailor made to your specific body thetan or whatever the hell, anyway if it's not specific to you then it is downright dangerous apparently. It can make you depressed and stuff. Well this all perplexed me so much and I wondered who on earth would publish a book like this until I found out recently that TM is actually a cult and this is just a bit of recruiting material for them and now it all makes perfect sense.

TL;DR My creative potential is still folded, one star.

[Heather · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had already watched Youtube content and read online; this book was not useful. If you want to see charts on all their early studies, read Bob Roth's ocean analogy and other TM descriptions, hear about their theory on impacting society at large with a small influx of meditators, and read countless personal testimonials, this is for you.

[Lori Cotten · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was very disappointed to read through the entire book, and never learn how to do transcendental meditation. The title is misleading. The whole book is a commercial to take courses in transcendental meditation.

[Mine Gedik · Rating 1 out of 5]

Kitabın adı TM tekniği ama bir gram teknik yok. Övmüşler de övmüşler. Evet şahane bir şeymiş. Bravo. Aferin.

[Orhun · Rating 3 out of 5]

A really nice book full of the scientific side of TM and its results. As a TM practitioner everything in the book made so much sense to me. But I could also see that the way this books constructed can easily make people doubt the trustfulness of the information inside and find it as more of an advertisement rather than an objective source of information, especially considering how much it contradicts with the current paradigm.

[Henrik Akselsen · Rating 1 out of 5]

A complete waste of paper. It is basically an infomercial in book form, which goes out of its way to not actually provide any useful information.

[Iman Ben chaibah · Rating 1 out of 5]

it doesnt explain the theory! just a promotional book.