Overview: Creating a Happy World: Cultivating Happiness through the Transcendental Meditation Program by author Patricia Anne Saunders details how according to global reports, sadness is increasing, but with the Transcendental Meditation program, happiness can expand far beyond our current expectations.

Verdict: Since stress, worry, and sadness appear to be on the rise, Creating a Happy World examines two paths to combat these and create a happy world - the path of the individual, which can be transformed through achieving higher states of consciousness with the Transcendental Meditation program; and the path of society, which can be transformed through the impact of Transcendental Meditation on collective consciousness.

For those still wondering, Transcendental Meditation [TM] is a simple mental technique, practiced silently with the eyes closed, sitting in any comfortable position. TM is basically a technique for avoiding distracting thoughts and promoting a state of relaxed awareness. The method became popular due to its association with the Beatles, but TM continues to be studied and practiced today for its health benefits.

According to supporters of TM, when you meditate, the ordinary thinking process is “transcended.” It’s replaced by a state of pure consciousness. In this state, you achieve perfect stillness, rest, stability, order, and a complete absence of mental boundaries. The end goal is to achieve a state of relaxed awareness.

Thus here in Creating a Happy World: Cultivating Happiness through the Transcendental Meditation Program, author Patricia Anne Saunders details how she believes we can all begin to not only care more for ourselves, but for others also, and ultimately, the future of humanity.

So if you have lived a life devoid of any genuine happiness, or maybe you have lived, laughed and loved, but now, in your latter years, you are feeling alone, disillusioned and just overwhelmed at how your life is ebbing slowly away without a kernel of joy seemingly to be found, I implore you to buy this book. As it will not only shine a light on different ways to encourage and grow personal happiness within you, but will also generate the want to see that happiness acquired by others around you also.

And so, by the time readers have finished reading, the author hopes they will feel more happiness in their own lives, a greater belief that life has a purpose, and increased optimism for the future of humanity. I know I did.

About the Author - Patricia Saunders studied music before training as a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique. She is now a Ph.D. researcher in the department of Maharishi Vedic Science at Maharishi University of Management, researching into consciousness and Vedic sound from the perspective of the Vedic tradition of knowledge. She lives in Fairfield, Iowa, USA.

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