Brain Games: What Improves Memory, Intelligence and Cognition?

A December 15th article in The Atlantic written by Venkat Srinivasan and called The Myth of the Brain Game discussed the current popularity of puzzles that are touted to increase […]

Press Delete on Women’s Five Top Health Concerns

I checked with Amy Ruff, BSN, RN, WOCN, to learn how the practice of the TM technique reduces the risk factors for, onset of, or difficulties that come along with […]

What is Liberation

When ancient traditions talk about liberation, what do they mean? Liberation from parents? From an oppressive government? From school or our marriage? At the most fundamental level of a human’s experience, liberation denotes the fullest development of a person’s consciousness, which gives us eternal freedom from all suffering.

Our intellect discriminates among boundaries, identifying this as separate and different from that—it locates and attaches the mind to the distinctions in life. It causes the mind to identify with the parts of life and lose the comprehension of the wholeness of which life is made. I am a student, I am a mother, I am a businesswoman, I am short, I am tall, I am frightened, or happy or excitable. I am not her or him or like them. I am separate.

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 […]