TM is a great meditation for beginners! I sometimes think the name Transcendental Meditation might put beginners off because it sounds as though it may be complicated or take a lot of practice. This isn’t true. Two nice surprises students get when they learn TM in Brighton with The Meditation People is that firstly, it’s […]
Most people who have an interest in meditation and have practiced meditation techniques other than TM are familiar with the term ‘monkey mind.’ It’s a Buddhist expression which describes the experience of the mind hopping from one thought to another incessantly just as monkeys hop from one tree to another. People usually experience that they […]
When a person learns TM, a common experience is that they feel something happening and they enjoy the process but they don’t know why it’s happening. On our independent Transcendental Meditation courses in Brighton, common questions are, ‘Why is this working?’ and ‘How can something so effective be so simple?’ The answer is that TM […]
Sometimes people ask why we meditate twice a day. Why do we need to meditate in the morning after a night’s sleep? The answer is that Transcendental Meditation brings a different type of rest to the nervous system than sleep. Also, the brain behaves differently during TM than it does during sleep. After sleep, people […]
A common question that comes up when we learn to meditate is how to know if we’re doing it correctly. One of the nice things about learning Transcendental Meditation in Brighton & Hove is that our course is well established. When learning TM, the instructions for how to meditate are very clear. We’re specific about […]
As an independent teacher of Transcendental Meditation in Hove and Brighton, I teach a fascinating course. Learning TM requires a course of four instruction sessions over a weekend. The TM course contains a lot of very interesting information but what is the meditation experience like? What does Transcendental Meditation feel like? TM is unique and […]
It’s funny how it’s often assumed that we need somewhere quiet to meditate. The silence we experience during meditation is an inner experience, it’s the place where meditation takes you. The whole process during Transcendental Meditation is the journey of the mind from a place called ‘activity’ towards a place called ‘silence’. Interestingly, this journey […]
In a survey named The Rest Test conducted by Wellcome in 2016, 68% of 18,000 people said they would like more rest. Wellcome revealed that nearly a third (32%) of people who responded said they need more rest than the average person, while only 10% felt they needed less. In very simple terms, two thirds […]