Defense Against Trauma

Everything is going along just fine and then you get mugged. Afterward, the world seems different—and you find that you are anxious all the time, maybe desolate, maybe unable to […]

Teaching the field of consciousness

From my current perspective I was very young–22 years old–when I was trained in an intensive five month program to be a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique. The first […]

Stress-free Stress Busting

Headlines: Five Ways to Reduce Workplace Stress! Ten Ways to manage Stress at Work! Stress Management Tips for Executives! Every time you turn around, there is someone giving advice on […]

C-Suite: C is for Consciousness

Recently, two articles written by women caught my attention. One was by Jillian Berman, writing for the the Huff Post Politics page and the other was by Forté Foundation executive […]

Success without Stress: An Interview with Robin Zabel

Janet: Robin, tell me a little about your career as a lawyer. Did you go to law school directly out of college? Robin: My “legal” career has been a strange […]

Flannery O’Connor and Praise of God

Flannery O’Connor was a twentieth century writer of essays and fiction. Her stories and novels were published in the mid twentieth century to some acclaim. She passed away before her fortieth birthday, but a journal she kept between 1946 and 1947 while she was a student in Iowa was preserved, recently found among her papers in Georgia, and published. The notebook was filled with a series of observations and entreaties to God, and is a stunning work that represents her devotion, humor, and exquisite intellect.

O’Connor held the conviction that the created world is charged with God. She wrote,

If You Don’t Have It, You’re Not Contagious: A Look at Stress Contagion

Ever walk into a room where people were arguing and suddenly find that you are getting tense? Did you know that the baby of a stressed mother could be in […]

Winning on Wall Street: An Interview with Anita Warner

At the time, I was living in Pennsylvania and my friend recommended it to me. At first I thought it would be difficult because I had tried meditating in a yoga class. But then she said that what she was doing was quite easy and that is how I decided to learn TM. I had been working with special education students and was very tired and drained from work, and when I learned TM and then would come home to meditate after work I found myself completely rejuvenated. I liked it. And I started noticing in my day to day life that I feel better, more alert and balanced—everything that the research on TM states that you’ll experience.

Self-Empowerment Tool for Women

There may be many advantages available to the lives of women in the United States compared to women’s lifestyles in many foreign nations, but in the USA there continues to […]

First Woman President of the USA

Following a precedent in national leadership set by several other western nations, the USA may not be waiting long for its first woman President. Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution […]