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I'm your host, Aria Laurie, and I'm here to talk all things wellness.

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Hi everybody. Welcome to the 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 internet, 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 Fitzrandoff.

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, we discuss everything from the physiological effects of TM,

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 transcend the mind and reach

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