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i looked inside i was
hollow in the happiness department
and i said
i gotta get that
and so I started Transcendental Meditation
a year ago this month I was suicidal
I felt so low that i wanted to just not be here
I got pregnant at 13
My mom, she got deported 2 years ago
sometimes I cry, cause it's too much tension
cause it's too much tension
we were attacked
this place called Budap
the first night I killed fourteen people
The number of women and girls who are *** and tortured and killed in war-torn areas
around the globe
is literally beyond comprehension
my inlaws
turned against me
they tortured me, almost killed me
I always thought I just had a low grade depression here
but it really was ever since
probably ten years old I've just really been miserable being myself
I was just so frustrated
full of misguided anger, I didn't know where to direct it to.
I lost 4 members of my family
to diabetes
I don't want that to happen to my people
sorrow, anxiety, traumatic stress
depression, hate
anger, rage, fear start to lift away
life just gets better and better and better
when it's calm and still
even what's struggle
becomes beauty
I used to say I'm gonna get my grades up
I'm gonna do better
but yet, it was just what i said, it never happened, until I started meditating
I think every
ghetto school in america has to have the fundamental right
of having an opportunity to do this type of thing
Stay regular in your meditation, don't let anybody take it away, and you will unfold your full potential
the kids love it
kids in the west bank love it, kids in Brazil love it.
I think this is what people need they don't need a high-minded talk so much as
results
Speaking as a scientist
the amazing thing about Transcendental Meditation is the very well established research showing
the technique impacts things
that we didn't think were changeable
Since I started TM
my sugar's been
where it should be
So I'm sold on TM
The initial research on the effects of Transcendental Meditation in treating PTSD
offers so much hope
better than many things being tried at far less a cost
Transcendental Meditation
saved my life
today I can say, I'm a meditator
I've been meditating 37 years
It is the only time i have that
stillness long enough that i open my eyes and I'm sad that it's 20 minutes
later
If you
meditate and just let everything go, free your mind, everything will come together
Just this last month i felt so much energy it's been amazing
All that feeling of heaviness
I can feel it melt away
it was absolutely transformational
People tell me you look very calm and relaxed. And there's not a whole lot of crazy. I'm just sitting there, calm
you know it is surprising even to me
I have a lot of problems in my life
and TM came into my life and gave me, like, this open door
to something I never knew I would be
Those days I used to cry too much
but now even the tears are holding. I'm great
It comes back to the core
of who you are as a person and what you're made of
You have to give yourself a chance
Real change for the good
truly begins within