Category: TM

Yesterday I almost finished up my TM training. After the first in person training, the rest was on an app. The lessons on the app are about 1.5 hours each. Needless to say, between the meditation taking about 30 minutes total and then 1.5 hours of training I had a bit of a hard time finishing up the training before our 1:30 zoom calls with our teacher. I managed fine on Sunday but then client work got in the way on Monday and Tuesday. So, yesterday I had about 15 minutes left on the last lesson and here I am, 24 hours later, and I haven’t had time to log in and finish that up!

However, once I finish, there is supposed to be so much more to the app. This app is great and l look forward to continuing using its timer and continuing my education.

Yesterday I met one-on-one with my TM teacher/coach. Still in a pandemic, with about 30% of US citizens fully vaccinated, the TM center reconfigured their space so that there was a separate door and room to enter. The doorways inside were sealed with plastic, be we could still see and converse just fine!

And, I received my mantra! I was so excited. Since then, I have meditated 4 times. TM has an app that has enabled people to continue to learn over the 3 additional days by including the training, as well as a timer that helps keeps up with your meditations.

Yesterday when I came home to try it myself for the first time, my cat didn’t want me in the room with the door closed. I gave up and let her in. Big mistake, as she usually does nothing but because I was sitting still she kept rubbing up against my feet and licking my arm. WTH! Then a dog in the neighborhood that will bark non-stop when let outside started up, right outside the window. I gave up, got up to get my headphones and started over. Afterwards, I downloaded a white noise app and was able to meditate just fine with that in my headphones today.

Back in 2008, I bought the book by Joe Vitale, “The Attraction Factor.” This was probably the first time I actually paid attention to the Law of Attraction. Then late 2019, I bought some software and what I thought would include some training, whereby everyone that bought it lost a lot of money because the guy is a scammer. However, for me, all was not lost. I met a lot of different people who also lost a lot of money, from around the world. Most of these people are straight-up business people who all are kicking themselves for falling for his scheme. But one woman I met, helps other women, and has for the past 10 years or so, make a lot of money.

I got invited to join her five day millionaire activation group several times. I love this woman! She is very genuine and talks about manifesting and meditating. But I just felt like something was missing with me being able to manifest. I tried meditation apps and listening to Abraham Hicks on Youtube, but I still felt like something was missing.

Just last week, I was on the last day of the latest millionaire activation group session and felt even more lost afterwards. I was thinking I need to just stop, and see if there was some way for me to learn how to just meditate. Then, like a loud voice in my head, I heard “Transcendental Meditation!”

I immediately started searching on the web for info about Transcendental Meditation (TM). I read several articles, found a book by Dr. Norman Rosthenthal, “Transcendence,” to listen to on my iPad, joined a reddit group r/transcendental. The group was active and there were many people who have been practicing TM for decades. Also, there were people who have just started.

I learned enough to contact for a coach near me on TM.org and there was one about an hour away. I got on the intro call and told the coach that I don’t know what came over me but I felt this overwhelming urge to be trained to do TM. Today I have my one-on-one with my coach and I am so excited! I left a lot out of the journey for me to get to this point which I will probably post about that part of the journey in the future.