Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation
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A simple, straightforward exploration of Transcendental Meditation and its benefits from world authority Bob Roth.
Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Seinfeld. Ray Dalio and Ellen DeGeneres. Gwyneth Paltrow and Howard Stern. Tom Hanks and Gisele Bündchen.
What do they have in common? The answer is a Transcendental Meditation teacher named Bob Roth, who has spent the past fifty years helping many thousands of people access their innate creativity and power through this simple, nonreligious technique. Roth’s students range from titans of business and the arts to federal prisoners, from war-scarred veterans to overworked moms and dads.
Medical experts agree that the epidemic of stress is damaging our physical and emotional health at younger and younger ages. While there is no one single cure, the Transcendental Meditation technique is a simple practice that dramatically changes how we respond to stress and life’s challenges. With scientifically proven benefits— reduced stress and anxiety, and improved focus, sleep, resilience, creativity, and memory, to name a few—this five-thousand-year-old technique has a clear and direct impact on our very modern problems.
Once a skeptic, Roth trained under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the twentieth century’s foremost scientist of consciousness and meditation, and has since become one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in the world. In Strength in Stillness, Roth breaks down the science behind Transcendental Meditation in a new, accessible way. He highlights the three distinct types of meditation—Focused Attention, Open Monitoring, and Self-Transcending—and showcases the evidence that the third, Self-Transcending, or Transcendental Meditation, is a uniquely accessible, effective, and efficient way to reduce stress, access inner power, and build resilience.
Free of gimmicks, mystical verbiage, and obscure theory, Strength in Stillness offers a clear explanation for how Transcendental Meditation can calm the mind, body, and spirit.
Bob Roth
Bob Roth is one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in the world. Over the past fifty years, Bob has taught Transcendental Meditation to many thousands of people, including billionaire CEOs, Hollywood celebrities, combat-scarred veterans, and inner-city youth. He currently serves as the CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, and also directs the Center for Leadership Performance. Bob is the host of the SiriusXM radio show, Success Without Stress, and speaks frequently about the science of meditation to industry leaders at such gatherings as Google Zeitgeist, Aspen Ideas Festival, Wisdom2.0, and Summit. He is the author of Strength in Stillness.
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Reviews for Strength in Stillness
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I got through 7 BORING chapters as he continually told me over and over and over how wonderful TM is. Then he told me again. He told me how my training would go but he gave NO training. Maybe he will later in the book but frankly I’m bored out of my skull and my first 7 chapters were a waste of my time. It'd be a good book to use to put yourself to sleep.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The first thing to know about this book is this, You must go to a TM center and learn how to meditate from a teacher who has learned how to teach it to others because it is very personal for each individual person, it costs money, but the best money I have ever spent, I am still doing it almost 50 years later.
I have practiced TM since 1972, it is the most wonderful thing in my life, I love it and will continue to do it for the rest of my life. Such a great source of rest and creativity though. Now I have a way to unwind the stress of the day each and every day, stress flows through me, My nervous system was like a rock, easy to damage, like taking a nail and scratching the surface of the rock, now, I am like water, the nail can no longer hurt me, but I flow around it, and move on in my life, I still get upset, but then a few minutes go by, and my anger is gone!3 people found this helpful
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This seems more like self promotion than anything substantive. I find myself saying over and over “ok! Sold! You have me. Now let’s go!”
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Nothing but a sales pitch to go see an instructor
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A wonderful book. I have been practicing TM for several months now. It was great to hear examples of how TM is impacting people around the world.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Waste of time, only stories abt how TM is good
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This guy just talks about how great TM is but doesn’t explain how to practice. Total waste of time
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Here's the first thing you need to know about this book: it does NOT tell you how to do transcendental meditation. Yes, a quote on the cover calls it a "masterclass". Yes, the back says it's the "essential guide to achieving a deeper sense of calm". But it will not teach you how to do it.What it does tell you is the underlying principles and ideas of it, why it works, who it works for. There are also details of lots of individual experiences. This is written quite well, but after you get a certain way through it feels like you're not reading anything new.This book has its place, but the wording on the covers is misleading.