Founded by MaharishiMahesh Yogi
Founded by MaharishiWorld Meditation Day Proclaimed by the entire United Nations
ALL MEDITATORS IN THE WORLD URGED TO JOIN ON 21st DECEMBER
The United Nations General Assembly, all 193 member states, have unanimously proclaimed 21st December 2024 to be the first “World Meditation Day”.
The globally recognised Vedic scholar and successor to the renowned Maharishi Mahesh Yogi as world head of the Transcendental Meditation® organisations, Tony Nader, MD, PhD, has been invited as the only keynote speaker at the UN’s official celebratory event in New York City on 20th December.
The next day, Saturday, 21st December, Dr. Nader will lead a non-stop program of meditation that will circle the Earth.
“We want to celebrate the UN’s timely initiative. Millions of meditators are expected to participate,” Dr. Nader said.
ALL MEDITATORS INVITED TO MEDITATE AT 8:00 AM AND 5:00 PM LOCAL TIME
“Let’s all celebrate this historic World Meditation Day! Find out what it’s like to meditate together with millions of others! Be an important part of a powerful, joyful wave of coherence and harmony in world consciousness!” Dr. Nader said.
This very first global meditation will work in two steps.
1: Begin your morning meditation at 8:00 AM local time on Saturday, 21 December.
2: Later the same day, start your evening meditation at 5:00 PM local time.
“This first global meditation will begin in New Zealand at 8:00 AM. An hour later, in the next time zone to the west, others will begin their morning meditation. And so on around the world,” Dr Nader said.
“Then, at 5:00 PM, the world’s meditators will follow the same procedure in beginning their afternoon meditation.
“By including both morning and evening meditations on 21st December and moving westward hour by hour with the Sun, ‘World Meditation Day’ will actually last for 32 ½ hours, concluding after 5:00 PM in Hawaii,” he said.
“Whatever your meditation practice, I urge you to join. Governments, spiritual leaders, practitioners of any meditation practice—all are invited to participate. And please share this with your friends and on your social media: WorldMeditationDay.world.
“In this simple way, a wave of harmony and positivity will circle our planet as together we all together celebrate ‘World Meditation Day.’”
Dr. Nader said, “I note with delight that, because of time differences around the world, the first meditation beginning at 8:00 AM on 21 December in New Zealand will coincide with 2:00 PM on 20 December in New York City—exactly the time when “World Meditation Day” will be celebrated at the special UN event.”
SPECIAL WEBSITES CREATED FOR “WORLD MEDITATION DAY”
As 21st December unfolds, all meditators are also encouraged to go to https://WorldMeditationDay.world and https://youtube.com/@WorldMeditationDay to see video of groups meditating in many parts of the world, learn about the scientific research on Transcendental Meditation, and hear personal stories of the remarkable transformations meditation brings to individuals and entire societies.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CONFIRMS THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TO CREATE PEACE
Dr. Nader is a Harvard- and MIT-trained medical doctor and neuroscientist. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Consciousness Is All There Is.
Dr. Nader says, “It is very well known that Transcendental Meditation brings peace to the individual by enlivening individual consciousness from its very basis in pure consciousness at the source of thought. 750 rigorously scientific studies over more than 50 years, conducted at over 200 universities and independent research institutions in more that 100 countries, have repeatedly shown dramatic and lasting improvements in both physical and mental health from regular TM practice.
Of the 750 studies, 118 looked at the reduction of negative tendencies in the environment.
“Of these 118 studies—54 of which have been published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals or professional conference proceedings—have confirmed the power of Transcendental Meditation and the advanced TM-Sidhi® program, including Yogic Flying®, to reduce negative, destructive tendencies such as crime, violence, accidents, and war and strengthen positive trends in societies ranging from small towns to the entire globe,” Dr Nader said.
“The research tells us that collective practice of the TM and the TM-Sidhi program is the quickest, most effective, and most easily sustained way to bring peace to entire societies and even to the whole world,” he said.
