"From practicing TM for two years, I've grown to be more patient and better-tempered. "I'm a rather short-tempered person, who sometimes does things without thinking them through first," she said. TM allows her to calm down in the same way others turn to sports or singing to ease pressure, she said. Xi confessed she often feels pressure about job hunting. "It has made me a lot calmer, especially before exams or when I can't sleep," she said. Xi said she has experienced personal changes through TM, too. Since he began practicing TM, he has felt more at peace and is now even a bigger advocate of the meditative technique than Xiang. Xiang said the benefits of TM are apparent to her and her boyfriend, who previously had trouble unwinding from his busy job. As the name suggests, meditators are supposed to naturally transcend into a peaceful, settled state of body and mind. After paying fees for taking the class, the mentor teaches the student a meaningless sound that aims to calm them as they repeat it quietly. Sessions are usually one-on-one between a student and their mentor. TM differs from other forms of meditation because it doesn't involve concentration on a specific thought, said Xiang Bingbing, associate director of MUM China and a TM instructor who graduated from the university last year. Teachers led students in TM sessions before classes were dismissed. While she was at MUM, she practiced TM twice daily: once in the morning and again in the afternoon. Photo: ICĮven though Xi had never tried TM before studying at MUM, she said it didn't feel strange and in fact shared similarities with yoga, which shares TM's Indian roots. TM practitioners participate in a group meditative session in 2008. The Iowa-based university's unique appeal lies in its credit-based classes in TM, a type of meditation introduced by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India in the 1950s, which aims to enhance students' academic abilities.īut despite TM's global popularity boom in education circles, it remains shrouded in controversy and mystery. MUM, which has a campus in Beijing, has recruited many students for both exchange and post-graduate programs. For her part, Xi found it helpful and plans to study a further two years for a post-graduate degree. Casting aside her skepticism, Xi decided to give it a go and enrolled at MUM as a business administration major. It wasn't meditation at first that attracted her, but rather everything else the school offered. Aside from promises it would increase her energy, motivation and mental clarity, the program also presented the opportunity to study in the US for two years. She had heard from her father's friend about a program teaching the meditative technique jointly offered by the Maharishi University of Management (MUM) and Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing. When Xi Fangjiao was first introduced to transcendental meditation (TM), she dismissed it as a bunch of hocus-pocus that wouldn't help her studies.
Students at a high school affiliated with the Iowa-based Maharishi University of Management meditate.
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