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Awakening Spiritual Life

When my father was a young minister and doctoral student in the Boston area, he would listen to weekly radio broadcasts by Howard Thurman, the first African American chaplain at Boston University. Later, my father described to me the clarity and calm in his voice, as if each word was a pearl on a string.

My father considered Thurman to be one of the greatest individuals he knew. He explained that Thurman’s life was devoted to cross-cultural…

Maharishi University of Management: A Unique University Helps Women Grow in Consciousness, Creativity and Leadership

Like many young women today, Andrea Zapata enrolled in college right after completing high school. Deciding that she wanted to study environmental sciences at a university, she threw herself into researching different transfer options, but soon became discouraged.

“I grew disillusioned with universities that had great environmental programs yet did not show full integrity with the quality…

Activating Women’s Innate Resilience Through Transcending

This article will provide you with insight into the means by which resilience can be cultured and will focus particularly on the psychological and emotional composition that are unique to a woman’s path to resilience.

I can best start with my own story as an example. I lived in Africa as a child—It was glorious, exotic, exhilarating, and often with wild animals in close proximity…

A Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner on Anxiety, Depression, Hormones, and Medication

Maribeth Flood is a licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner in the state of Washington. She earned her B.S.N. from Louisiana State University Medical Center and her M.S. from Tulane University. She is a respected speaker and published writer and is currently in private practice.

Maribeth is also a certified teacher of the Transcendental Meditation program. I sat down with her to find out how these two…

The Miracle of Transcendence and the Human Brain

The human brain is an unfathomable mystery. The American astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson described it perfectly when he wrote, “Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.”

Transcendental Meditation and Psychotherapy: Interview with Dr. Samantha Smithstein

Do you think that being in therapy rules out the reasons for learning to meditate? It might surprise you to know that many psychologists not only recommend that their clients learn the Transcendental Meditation technique, but also have learned TM for their own benefit. I asked for clarification from Dr. Samantha Smithstein, a psychologist who learned TM 5 years ago and continues to meditate regularly.

Samantha Smithstein, Psy.D., is a…

Tracy McCormick: Learning to Stand in Your Own Light

For Tracy McCormick, learning to practice the Transcendental Meditation technique was part of a spiritual journey that started when she was a child.

“I come from a long line of strong, spiritual women,” she says. For example, her grandmother Mary J. McCormick was pregnant with her seventh child when her beloved husband suddenly died of a heart attack…

At Last! Good News for Menopausal Women

A paper published in PubMed and in the Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences a decade ago could have saved post-menopausal women from years of vulnerability to heart disease—had they only know about it.

February is “heart health month”—shouldn’t every month be? So as a nurse specializing in cardiovascular health, and as….

A Natural Antidote to Anxiety

Susan Kane described herself as a worrier by nature. “I’d always find something to worry about,” she says. When the anxiety started to impact her digestion, she found herself debilitated by stomach pain.

Catching Enough Zzzs

Studies show that Americans are the most sleep deprived people in the world. Around the USA, high numbers of both adults and youngsters are reporting that they have sleep problems. However, a recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that single moms…