transcendental meditation

transcendental meditation
A form of meditation practiced over 2500 years ago in Eastern cultures and which was recently made popular in the West by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as a means to help increase energy, reduce stress, and have a positive effect on mental and physical health; it involves the person sitting upright for 20 min, with eyes closed, and silently speaking a mantra (a key stimulus word used uniquely by each individual to return to the proper meditative state) whenever thought occurs.

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Tran·scen·den·tal Meditation .tran(t)s-.en-'dent-əl-, -ən- service mark used for a meditation technique

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a technique for attaining a state of physical relaxation and psychological calm by the regular practice of a relaxation procedure (generally two 20-minute periods a day) that entails the repetition of a mantra that blocks distracting thoughts from entering the mind.

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