On Transcendental Meditation & Turning Inward

Transcendental Meditation and Family Constellations

• “My head is spinning”
  “I just can’t seem to concentrate”
• “I worry about everything”
• “How can I get in touch with my feelings?

Meditation opens your senses and teaches you to truly feel. It helps you return to the here and now, with greater presence, stability and clarity.

There are different ways to learn to listen. To yourself, to your body, to that which presents itself without words. Transcendental meditation is one of them. Family constellations are another. At first glance, they seem like different worlds, but in lived experience they continuously meet.

Both invite cooperation with the body. Not forcing, but following. Not to understand, but to observe. The movement is the same: slowing down, turning inward, sinking deeper, and making space. When attunement occurs, observation becomes clearer. Peace arises.

In meditation, you learn to detach your attention from the outside world. Turning your attention inward to a quiet foundation. Thoughts become quieter, the body relaxes. Often warmth becomes tangible, a gentle flow, as if the body itself takes the lead. The body often knows before the mind when it is safe to let go.

Something similar happens in family constellations. As soon as the pace slows down and attention shifts from thinking to feeling, the system begins to speak. Relationships and dynamics become visible. Not through words, but through body signals: tension, heaviness, breath, warmth, or coldness. The body reacts to relationships that are older than the individual, to patterns that do not need to be conceived in order to be felt.

Practicing Transcendental Meditation

Through an introductory and preparatory lecture, a personal conversation, and individual instruction, the technique is passed on step by step. There is room for testing and confirming the experience, so that the practice does not remain an idea, but is actually embodied.

Part of this transmission is a simple ceremony in which gratitude is expressed to the teachers of previous generations who have preserved and passed on this knowledge, followed by meditation and a renewed attunement to the experience itself.

Transcendental Meditation is about spontaneity, personal growth, physical and mental wholeness, family, work, community, and world peace. All of these are not seen as separate, but as interconnected domains of life.

Slowing down, sinking in, and turning inward

The movement inward is seen as natural. The mind is naturally focused on seeking peace and happiness. When attention is given the space to soften, it naturally follows this direction. Meditation is not concentration or contemplation, but a process in which attention becomes increasingly subtle, until even that refinement disappears and only Consciousness remains.

This process is often compared to the image of a flower being reduced further and further: from form to point, until even that point disappears. What remains is not emptiness, but presence.

“Turning inward is not escaping”

Many may be familiar with expanded consciousness as the phenomena evoked by plant medicines and drugs. Maharishi distinguished the following states of consciousness. In addition to waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, he described transcendent consciousness as a state of pure intelligence and pure creative intelligence, simply Being. Cosmic consciousness is characterized by an inner silence, in which the inner self is no longer disturbed by external circumstances. Knowing without having to learn.

The bridge between transcendental meditation, body awareness, and family constellations lies precisely there. In the ability to become still, to be present, and to let the body participate. In the confidence that wisdom does not need to be conceived, but can appear when there is space.

“The outer is the temporary, ever-changing aspect. The inner is the permanent, never-changing aspect”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi described this as the movement of the mind from the concrete to the subtle. Just as a thought can become increasingly refined until it dissolves and only Consciousness remains. At that moment, the distinction between observer and observed disappears. Nothing needs to be understood. There is only being.

This inner being is seen as a silent foundation, always present, beneath the changing experiences of daily life. The outer constantly changes; the inner does not. Transcendental meditation offers a practical way to connect with that layer, without analysis or effort.

As with family constellations, this works on multiple levels. When inner peace increases, the way a person relates to work, family, and relationships changes. Not because something is actively being adjusted, but because the system can regulate itself more. Tension is given space to let go. Clarity arises without searching.

“From inner peace, wisdom and happiness can be born.”

Transcendental Meditation is a technique of self-exploration, looking at the innermost layers, where the essence of life resides and where the source of all wisdom, all creativity, all peace, and all happiness lies. Wisdom does not have to come from outside. When the body can relax and attention can settle, a form of knowing arises naturally. That knowing is quiet, simple, and directly applicable in daily life.

Perhaps that is the core: learning to work with what is already there; to experience love, happiness, awareness, wisdom, and creativity, and to live from that place.