Elevated Existence magazine reported recently that Dr Mehmet Oz (televised on Channel 7 in Australia) is now offering Transcendental Meditation (TM) to his entire NY-based production team.

Over recent months there has been a steady stream of high-profile celebrities ‘talking the talk’ on TM, most notably Oprah whose support of the technique flooded the online blog world last month. The resurgence of interest in TM is largely due to the current leader of all things TM .. David Lynch (The David Lynch Foundation).  Lynch is an award-winning director, writer, and producer; his work includes Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Wild at Heart and my favourite Twin Peaks.

Dr Oz:
“You know as well as I do: Any business is what it is because of the people who work there. Why not take people who are working at 80 per cent, 60 per cent, 30 per cent of their potential and take them all to 99 per cent of their potential. I think that’s what true success feels like,” said Dr. Oz, explaining that is what TM can do for a company.

“It’s a powerful tool to turbo-charge the people in your organization and, I believe quite strongly, you would be very wise to give it a try.”

*On a personal note: Just for reference, TM is just one meditation technique. Not the only, not the oldest, not the youngest, just one amongst many. I have not taken any formal study of this technique. However, TM is a mantra-based practice, which I have studied with many different teachers and traditions. Mantra certainly predates TM .. by thousands of years. There are mantra practices found in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism .. Yoga .. indeed Primordial Sound Meditation uses the breath and silent mantra (Deepak Chopra). Like any meditation technique, you need to do the practice, find the right practice for you, and have a teacher to share the journey.