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Hi, everybody, welcome to this show I am so so so excited for today's episode as you

know I have been doing transcendental meditation for a few years now and it literally changed my life, like right from the get-go.

So profoundly transformative and whenever I mention it over on the

internets I get tons of questions usually like what is it how do you do it

where do I learn is there an app for that why do I have to pay for it and so on so I figured rather than me

Just try to explain it to you guys why not bring on a teacher so that's exactly what I did today. I'm talking to Emily Fitz Randolph. She is a

certified transcendental meditation teacher and she's the co-director of the Santa Monica TM Center.

And you guys, this is such a fascinating episode,

whether you meditate or not.

In this day and age, I really can't think of a reason

why anybody wouldn't when we have all the science and personal

anecdotes supporting how impactful it is, but that's just my unsolicited opinion.

So anyway, in this episode, discuss everything from the physiological effects of

T.M. what it does to the brain, the scientific research behind it, why it's different from other

forms of meditation, why you have to pay, to learn it, and how to

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