DAVID LYNCH
FOUNDATION
AUSTRALIA
About TM
About the Transcendental
Meditation® (TM) Technique
What Is Transcendental Meditation?
It is a simple, natural, effortless technique practiced 20 minutes twice a day while sitting comfortably with the eyes closed.
It has been taught by highly qualified Certified teachers worldwide for over 65 years and requires no change in lifestyle or adoption of any belief system.
School Teacher's Mental Health Initiative
Helping teachers manage workplace stress and burnout
to create healthy teaching environments
It is estimated that 70% of our teachers are under constant stress, with over 20% experiencing burnout.
Burnout includes emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and reduced sense of personal accomplishment.
It has been recently proven that there is now a direct link between teacher stress and levels of stress in their students.
Research published in Frontiers in Education found that,
"Transcendental Meditation may provide an effective antidote to the psychological distress experienced by teachers and is a significant facilitator of resilience, the ability to cope with obstacles and challenges in one’s life.”
The David Lynch Foundation’s Teachers Mental Health Initiative provides schools, teachers and administrative personnel the tools to manage anxiety and burnout that can help reduce attrition of highly valued teachers from schools throughout Australia.
A school teacher explains how TM helped to deal with stress in the classroom and beyond.
TEACHERS EXPLAIN HOW TM HELPS TO MANAGE STRESS AND AVOID ANXIETY AND BURNOUT
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Traumas that I brought into the Marine Corps caught up and that led to a pretty detailed plan for suicide. TM worked for me, and it has worked for thousands of my brothers and sisters. It’s given me the opportunity not just to survive on earth but to thrive here and to live a life that is truly full of purpose, meaning, connection, and service.”
Paul Downs
US Marine Veteran
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I put a loaded 45 my pistol to my head in front of my wife and young daughter and I was gonna kill myself.
I had consistently thought about suicide before I learned Transcendental Meditation.
It changed everything.”
Luke Jensen
Afghanistan War Veteran
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It’s part of an overall healthy lifestyle. You become physically fit, you work out, you take care of your body. You do Transcendental Meditation and it helps take care of your mind.
The powerful part of that is that it physiologically improves your brain functioning.”
Stephen T. Rippe
Major General, US Army (Ret.)
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