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• Relaxation response
  Herbert Benson, who was involved in the early physiological research on Transcendental Meditation (TM), designed his own meditation modeled after TM. He popularized it in a best-selling book (The Relaxation Response) and has studied that practice for over four decades.
• Aaron Alexis and the Dark Side of Meditation
  Maia Szalavitz, Time Magazine, Sept. 17, 2013. One detail among the many reports emerging about Aaron Alexis, the 34-year-old man suspected of killing 12 people in a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, stood out: he was a regular meditator.
• Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine - Mission and history
  "As a cardiologist in the late 1960's [Dr. Herbert Benson] and his colleagues established a scientific basis for the mind/body connection at his alma mater, Harvard Medical School, by studying the effect of stress on blood pressure.... While this research was underway, Dr. Benson was approached by young practitioners of Transcendental Meditation. They asked him to study their blood pressure, because they believed they had lower blood pressure as a result of their meditation practice....In the very room at Harvard Medical School where Walter B. Cannon had discovered the body's “fight or flight” response 50 years earlier, Dr. Benson and Robert Keith Wallace discovered its opposite." "Specifically, they found that meditation reduced metabolism, rate of breathing, heart rate, and brain activity."
• CBS News - The quiet power of meditation
  ​The quiet power of meditation CBS News January 3, 2016
• Congressman Tim Ryan, leader of the "Quiet Time" caucus
• Contemplative Practices in Action: Spirituality, Meditation, and Health
  Thomas G. Plante (ed.), Praeger, 2010 Contemplative Practices in Action: Spirituality, Meditation, and Health is an interdisciplinary scholarly and scientific book. It examines the nature, function, and impact of meditation and other contemplative practices in several different religious traditions, both eastern and western, including methods for incorporating contemplative practice into education, healthcare, and other human services.
• Default mode network activation and Transcendental Meditation practice: Focused Attention or Automatic Self-transcending?
  Frederick Travis and Niyazi Parim. Brain and Cognition 2017(Feb);111:86-94 "... it does not seem accurate to include TM practice with meditations in the catgory of Focused Attention, which are characterized by gamma EEG and DMN deactivation. Mixing meditations with different procedures into a single study confounds exploration of meditation effects and confounds application of meditation practices to different subject populations."
• How Meditation Can Reshape Our Brains: Sara Lazar at TEDxCambridge 2011 (8:34)
  "Neuroscientist Sara Lazar's amazing brain scans show meditation can actually change the size of key regions of our brain, improving our memory and making us more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress."
• Improving Military Resilience through Mindfulness Training
  Melissa Myers, USAMRMC Public AffairsJune 1, 2015 A University of Miami-led research study, led by principal investigator and neuroscientist Dr. Amishi Jha, and funded by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, has shown that mindfulness meditation exercises positively support active-duty Soldiers in protecting and training their own minds and helping better prepare Soldiers for high-stress combat situations while also improving overall cognitive resilience and performance.
• Interview with Harald Harung - The Three Proven Keys for Peak Performance (21 min)
  "What are the qualities of a peak performer? Can you develop them? If so, how? These are some of the enticing questions Dr. Harung answers in this insightful interview with Michael Sternfeld of the New Mavericks organization. Learn how to leverage exercise, music, and transcendence for mind-brain refinement and sophistication. "Dr. Harung holds a PhD from the University of Manchester. He has worked as a researcher at Oxford University, a naval officer, CEO of an engineering firm, founder and president of an international business college, and has been one of the editors of The Learning Organization—an international journal. Dr. Harung has published papers in Journal of Managerial Psychology, Cognitive Processing, Consciousness and Cognition, Management Decision, and the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. His book Invincible Leadership was published in the USA (MUM Press) and the Czech Republic (Euromedia). A second book is in progress."
• Matthieu Ricard: “Altruism”
  "When Matthieu Ricard was in his 20s and studying molecular biology, he traveled to India to meet a Buddhist master he saw in a movie. Soon afterwards, Ricard left behind a promising career in science for a quiet, anonymous life as a Buddhist monk. In the late 1990s, he published “The Monk and the Philosopher,” a dialogue with his father that became an international bestseller. In his latest book, Ricard argues that altruism is the key to solving major world problems like inequality and climate change. He joins us to talk about how consideration for others can solve the challenges of our modern world." Guests Matthieu Ricard Buddhist monk and scientist; international bestselling author of "Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill" and "The Monk and the Philosopher" (Book excerpt on Web page)
• Meditation: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life: Bodhin Kjolhede at TEDxFlourCity (12 min)
  "Bodhin Kjolhede weaves metaphor and allegory together to explain the importance of meditation. He will deliver several tangible benefits of meditation that would go unrealized without personal experience."
• Meditation research from the lab of Sara Lazar
  "We use neuroimaging techniques to study neurological, cognitive and emotional changes associated with the practice of meditation and yoga. We also incorporate measures of peripheral physiology (breathing, heart beat) in order to understand how meditation practice influences the brain-body interaction."
• Mindfulness And Transcendental Meditation: Why These Practices Are Having A Moment
  Diane Rehm Show, May 17, 2016 Transcendental Meditation is a practice that has its roots in Hinduism. Mindfulness traces back to Buddhist awareness techniques. Today in America, these forms of meditation seem to be everywhere from schools to businesses to the military. Whether it’s to treat a serious medical condition, help deal with depression, or simply find peace in the craziness of life, Americans are increasingly turning to meditation for answers. Diane and her panel of guests discuss how these practices work, their roots in Asian religion, and what science tells us about how they could impact our health. Guests Dr. Norman Rosenthal author, "Super Mind: How to Boost Performance and Live a Richer and Happier Life Through Transcendental Meditation"; clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine; the first psychiatrist to describe and diagnose SAD, seasonal affective disorder. Dr. Rezvan Ameli clinical psychologist, National Institute of Mental Health; author, "25 Lessons in Mindfulness: Now Time for Healthy Living" Jennie Rothenberg Gritz senior editor, Smithsonian Magazine Jeff Wilson associate professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies, Renison University College at the University of Waterloo; author, "Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture"
• NY Times - At Aetna, a C.E.O.’s Management by Mantra
  At Aetna, a C.E.O.’s Management by Mantra David Gelles, NY Times, Feb. 27, 2015 "Mark Bertolini, the unconventional chief executive of Aetna, the health insurer, gave thousands of the lowest-paid employees a 33 percent raise, and he has introduced popular yoga classes. His discussions were influenced, in part, by a near-fatal ski accident."
• The U.S. Surgeon General Wants To Bring You Health Via Happiness
  Anna Almendrala, Huffington Post, Nov 24, 2015
• Tony Nader MD, PhD, MARR was honoured during the third International Yoga Day celebrated in the House of Commons, Palace of Westminster
  July 10, 2017. The event was hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Indian Traditional Sciences, and sponsored by the High Commission of India. Hundreds of guests attended the conference, which was designed to explore the value of introducing Yoga in the National Health Services (NHS).
• Transcendental Meditation and the David Lynch Foundation
• WUNC - Army Embraces Psychology, Zen Traditions To Train Paratroopers
  Jay Price, 7/7/2016 A battalion of paratroopers at Ft. Bragg is embracing mindfulness techniques that might seem more appropriate in a yoga studio or psychology lab, or even on the sidelines of an NFL game. And what scientists are learning from those 800 soldiers in the 82nd Airborne Division might change the future of the Army.
• Yoga Behind Bars
  Practicing yoga in prison is reshaping these inmates' lives. Now This Reports, September 29, 2017
• ‘The Inner Peace Revolution’ Film (20 min)
  Interviewing leading experts and scientific researchers, we learn how our inner peace is directly related to peace in the wider world. ‘The Inner Peace Revolution’ reveals a surprising solution to the Global Peace Deficit. Featuring Dean Radin, Cynthia Jurs, David Nicol, Professor Michael Nagler, Richard Miller and many more. http://www.innerpeacerevolution.com/About_The_Inner_Peace_Revolution.html