According to the MailOnline , HIV infection statistics in the UK are extremely alarming. The number of people in the UK infected with HIV has reached an all-time high - nearly 110,000 people are living with the condition but around a quarter of the population who are infected are unaware and passing the virus to others through unprotected sex. Six percent of sexually active gay men...

'Can Meditation Change the World? ' By Steve Taylor, Out Of Darkness blog, Psychology Today . What would happen if every member of a country's government and army started to meditate, asks author Steve Taylor writing in his Psychology Today blog. Would the country become peaceful and crime-free? And would meditation prove to be the best way to stop famine, as the...

The world's leading medical website explores the considerable body of research on the health benefits of Transcendental Meditation. WebMD - the Magazine, October 2011 Marisa McGinnis is one of many individuals whose life and health have been transformed by Transcendental Meditation (TM), reports Web MD, the award-winning website for medical and health information. Two years...

American Journal of Health Promotion ,  Autumn 2011 According to a newly published Canadian study, the medical costs of treating people with consistently high healthcare needs was reduced by 28 percent after an average of five years practice of the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique by the individuals, indicating a significant improvement in their general...

Mind & Brain, The Journal of Psychiatry , UK A new study published this week in Mind & Brain, The Journal of Psychiatry found significantly improved general brain functioning and decreased symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, in school children practising Transcendental Meditation. The randomly assigned controlled study was conducted over a...

The Independent on Sunday by Laura Tennant For years, it has been ridiculed as a 1960s embarrassment. Now Transcendental Meditation is back in a big way. So were those hippies on to something all along? ... For strange as it may sound, among those of us who seek to surf the zeitgeist, the most fashionable thinker of 2011 may turn out to be Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the...

New research shows that professional classical musicians’ brains are highly developed in a way that makes them more alert, eager to learn, open-minded, calm, and playful. The same traits have previously been found among world-class athletes, top-level managers,  and individuals who practise Transcendental Meditation . These traits are collectively referred to as "high mind brain...

Based on an article in Positive News -  a hard-facts environmental publication, looking at stories of increasing harmony and environmental awareness in the world. Issue 67, Spring 2011 All his life, Einstein searched for proof of one underlying field of creation - a "unified field," more basic and many hundreds of thousands of times more powerful than the nuclear...

A dramatic drop in crime in the USA last year -- with New York experiencing its safest year on record -- and a rise in "peacefulness" in the nation are among the findings associated with the Invincible America Assembly , now in its fifth year and the first-ever scientific project to document the long-term peace promoting effects of group practice of Transcendental Meditation . A...

Bad manners and reality TV raise our blood pressure and increase the risk of stroke, according to a new survey. The remedy, says the Daily Mail , could be Transcendental Meditation . Queue jumping, reality TV shows and poor driving are just a few of the everyday things that make our blood boil in Britain but, according to a new survey reported in the Daily Mail (13...