DoctorsOnTM.org is a new website where specialists answer your questions about the Transcendental Meditation^® (TM^®) program and health. The website is run by the The American Association of Physicians Practicing the Transcendental Meditation Program.

This is an interactive site, which will be updated regularly to add new scientific studies, press coverage and answers to new questions.

"ASK THE DOCTORS" features the expert medical knowledge and endorsements of top medical doctors and scientists, who answer questions from the public about the use of the Transcendental Meditation program to prevent specific diseases and promote health and longevity.

Did you know that doctors recommend the Transcendental Meditation technique to:

• Lower high blood pressure
• Reduce stress
• Lessen anxiety
• Lift depression
• Prevent heart failure
• Alleviate ADHD
• Balance metabolic Syndrome
• Stop substance abuse
• Reduce use of hypertension medicine
• Decrease healthcare expenditures
• and more

And if you have a question about TM and your health, you can ask the doctors yourself!

One of the doctors who answers questions on the DoctorsOnTM.org website is New England's own Steele Belok, MD. Dr. Belok is a Staff Physician in Internal Medicine and Nephrology at Mt. Auburn Hospital (a regional teaching hospital closely affiliated with the Harvard Medical School) is Cambridge, MA. He is also on the board of Maharishi Academy of Total Knowledge—High School for Leadership in Antrim, NH, and he is Co-Director of Maharishi Vedic Health Center in Lancaster, MA.

Question: I’m constantly under pressure at home and on the job, and my friends say I’m stressed. Could the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique help me?

Dr. Belok: Many people today are suffering from stress. Stress results in anxiety. In fact, twenty percent of Americans have an anxiety disorder. Stress arises when a person has trouble coping with the demands placed on them by society. When unable to cope, the resultant anxiety leads people to self-medicate in various ways: food, TV, alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and coffee are common examples. However, these methods are a short-sighted and maladaptive attempt to reduce the stresses in life, because they do not help one function any better; indeed, they worsen an individual’s adaptive efficiency with time. So we get into a vicious cycle of stress, where the less we are able to cope, the more we self-medicate, which worsens our ability to cope, and causes us to again self-medicate.

The Transcendental Meditation technique cuts short this vicious cycle of stress. When practicing the TM technique, a person sits comfortably in a chair for 20 minutes twice a day, closes the eyes, begins the process, and experiences the mind effortlessly settling down to quieter and quieter levels of the thinking process. Finally, the mind comes to the source of the thinking process, awareness itself. This experience is called restful alertness. In this state, the body is deeply rested and the mind is fully alert. Stress is dissolved by this experience—by the quiet and comfort of inner being.

Dr. Belok and other doctors and scientists answers more questions.

Please visit DoctorsOnTM.org for answers to questions on all aspects of health and wellness.

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