Desperate for attention and revenue, the TMO pays yet another TM shill
at the Huffington Post to trumpet the praises of grinning Bobby Roth
and by extension sing the praises of the TM Movement and its core
practice.
In other news, a mouse ran across the toes of several TMSP'ers in the
Ladies Dome during program - the shrieking and hopping about was
mistakenly considered to be excellent effects of Patanjali's Golden
Sutras. Even though the real cause of the commotion was eventually
revealed, film and photos of the event are already being used to
promote belief in yogic flying success.
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On Tue, 10/15/13, Dick Mays <dickm...@lisco.com> wrote:
Subject: [FairfieldLife] TM helps poor children, veterans with PTSD,
and victims of domestic violence
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 12:01 PM
This
is an excellent article!Dick
http://theuncarvedblog.com/2013/10/14/renowned-tm-meditation-teacher-bob-roth-featured-on-the-third-metric-and-huffpost-live/The
Uncarved
BlogKen Chawkin's articles & poems:
Transcendental Meditation, consciousness &
enlightenment« How TM
helped calm and center a young woman’s busy
mind—inspiring article in new
Irish magazineRenowned
(TM) meditation teacher Bob Roth featured on The Third
Metric and HuffPost LiveHuffington Post Senior
Writer Ann
Brenoff profiled Bob Roth, Executive
Director of the David Lynch
Foundation, an exemplary representative
for The Third
Metric: Redefining Success Beyond Money
and Power.huff.to/1albfF9 (10/14/2013)Meditation Teacher To The Stars:
His clients include Oprah, Russell Brand, Martin Scorcese
and Dr. Oz, but renowned meditation teacher Bob Roth also
serves low-income and under-served communities by sharing
his passion: Transcendental
Meditation.Bob Roth was
also interviewed on @HuffPostLive: Stress Is The
New Black Plague: Meditation guru Bob Roth
@meditationbob joins
host Nancy Redd
@nancyredd to explain the
benefits of meditation: Bob Roth Talks Transcendental
Meditation @TMmeditation. Watch this
lively interview http://huff.lv/GZQpn9 (12:46).Bob
Roth: Bringing Calm To The Center Of Life’s
StormIf
there was a perfect year in which to discover Transcendental
Meditation, it might just have been 1968. That was the year
that Bob Roth was a freshman at UC Berkeley — a campus
considered Ground Zero for the anti-war movement and the
cultural changes sweeping through the country at the time.
He remembers living surrounded by helicopters spewing tear
gas over student war protesters and Army tanks parked
outside his front door. Demonstrations. Riots.
Chaos.And against
this backdrop, Roth did what many college students do: He
took a part-time job. He sold scoops of ice cream at
Swenson’s ice cream parlor, never expecting that amid the
rush of pending social changes engulfing him, it would be at
the ice cream shop where he would meet a guy who would
ultimately alter the course of his life forever.The college crew at
Swenson’s
was the usual motley collection of hippies, straights and
everything in between, recalls Roth. But one guy stood out:
Peter Stevens. “He was like a quiet reflection pool amid
the chaos,” recalls Roth, “and I was drawn to
him.”“Peter was
centered, energetic, super-smart, kind to all, easy-going,
never agitated, with an ineffable calm about him,” Roth
told The Huffington Post. He learned that Peter
“meditated,” something that Roth said was a bit of a
disconnect for him. “Meditation was not in my
vocabulary.” But he was intrigued and curious, and went
with Stevens to a class in Transcendental Meditation, a
meditative practice derived from the ancient Vedic tradition
in India. After just one class, Roth was hooked.Today, Roth is the
executive
director of the David Lynch
Foundation, where he has helped bring
Transcendental Meditation programs to more than 300,000
at-risk kids in 35 countries, as well as veterans suffering
from post-traumatic stress disorder, and women and girls who
are survivors of domestic violence. He’s also the national
director of the Center for Leadership Performance, which
introduces the TM program to business, industry and
government organizations — and even some United Nations
groups.Today, Roth’s
student roster includes a lot of very recognizable
names: Oprah, Russell Simmons,
Russell Brand, Martin Scorsese, Mehmet Oz, Hugh Jackman and
dozens of others. He’d be embarrassed to be called
“meditation teacher to the stars,” but such a
description wouldn’t be far off. For the past 40 years, he
has meditated twice a day no matter where he is, in places
as discombobulating as an airplane when need be.He explains Transcendental
Meditation with the following analogy: The surface of the
ocean is waves and white caps. But deeper down, the ocean is
still. How TM differs from other meditations, he says, is
that it doesn’t attempt to still the waves, but rather
allow access to the stillness. By practicing it twice a day
for 20 minutes, he said, studies have shown that people
sleep better, reduce their stress, and lower their blood
pressure. In children, the practice can reduce ADHD
symptoms and symptoms of other
learning disorders.Not all
Roth’s clients are rich and famous. One of the key focuses
of the David Lynch Foundation is to target those who
aren’t and improve their lives through TM. There’s a
story that Roth likes to tell about theDLF’s Quiet Time
program — where thousands of
at-risk children are taught TM in school. It involves a
little girl he called Jessica (not her real name) who lives
in a crime-infested neighborhood of San Francisco. Jessica
showed up one day at school wearing a white dress splattered
with what her teacher, at first glance, thought was red
paint. It was blood — blood from Jessica’s uncle who had
been shot that morning in a random drive-by while waiting
with her at the bus stop.Instead of running home, Jessica
ran to school so that she could meditate, she told her
teachers. The DLF Quiet Time program had been in her school
for about a year at the time and for her, it made school a
safe place whereas her home often couldn’t be. “For
me,” said Roth, “that says it all.”As part of the Quiet Time Program,
the foundation supplies teachers for each child to have
one-on-one meditation instruction and follow-up. “In a
school with 1,000 students,” he said, “we bring in 20
teachers.”The results
have been gratifying, said Roth, who believes that results
must be quantifiable to matter. “Change needs to show up
in grades, reduced number of suspensions and dropout
rates,” he said. And the Quiet Time program has done all
that. The San Francisco Unified School District
reports an 86 percent reduction in
suspensions over two years in
schools where the program has been
introduced; a 65 percent decrease in violent conflict at the
John O’Connell High School; and the Journal of Psychiatry
shows reduced ADHD symptoms and symptoms of other learning
disorders among students who practice TM.Carlos Garcia, retired
superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District,
heralded the program as one which is “transforming
lives.” He said, “It is transforming schools and
neighborhoods, and it will transform our society.”All of which is
music to Roth’s
ears. TM is a life-changer for individuals, he said, but
also a game changer in the broader sense. It may start with
an individual’s desire to sleep better or reduce stress,
but results are similar to what happens when you pull on one
leg of the table, said Roth. “The whole table moves.”
And what moves in this case are blood pressure numbers,
heart attack risk factors, and the overall ability to make
better decisions with a more focused mind. “You are
thinking more clearly, are able to make decisions more
ethically, perform more creatively.” It’s like when you
water a plant because some leaves are wilting, he said, but
the whole plant benefits from the water. And it spills over
into those around you in a chain reaction.Companies interested in
innovation
are drawn to TM because of the positive impact it has on
their work force. It’s why Oprah had Roth bring his
program to her staff of 400. “It’s not just about
learning to relax,” said Roth. “TM wakes up the brain
and the executive functions. It resets the brain to perform
in a less ‘flight or fight’ manner.”And yes, it reduces stress.
Whether he is teaching a homeless guy — the DLF has a
program that works with New York City homeless — or a
billionaire, “they both suffer from stress,” said
Roth.But as one celebrity
who shall remain unnamed quipped when Roth asked her why she
wanted to learn to meditate, “I want to maintain a
permanent connection with the intelligence of the universe.
I also can’t sleep.”TM
training allows people to access an ability they already are
hard wired for: to take a profound rest at will.Roth says the tipping
point has
been reached in regard to the public’s understanding of
the value of meditation. As he wrote on Maria
Shriver’s blog, “It feels like
something foundational can be done to help transform lives
through meditation, not only among those most at-risk to
suffer traumas in life, but also the teen in the private
school who battles the very real demons of substance abuse
and unspoken thoughts of suicide; the parent who is
struggling to survive an ugly divorce and still keep the
family intact; or just the person — man, woman, boy, girl
— who is navigating life’s daily vicissitudes and
can’t seem to catch a breath, turn off the noise, get a
good night’s sleep.”Ann
Brenoff can be reached at: ann.bren...@huffingtonpost.com.
