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The 2013 and 2014 Press Wave on Meditation and Wall Street

Ten articles from 2013 and 2014 on Transcendental Meditation in business, each checked against the publisher's own page, with dates and links.

By TM Business Review Newsroom
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Folded newspapers lie piled together, their headlines in close view.
Folded newspapers lie piled together, their headlines in close view. PHOTO: Canva

Between September 2013 and July 2014, a run of newspapers and magazines wrote about Transcendental Meditation among executives, and especially on Wall Street. Ten of those articles are listed below in date order, with their real headlines and dates, after a check in October 2026 against each publisher’s own website, or an archived copy where the original has gone.

The list began as the old press page on this website, which named 13 articles. Where that page gave a different headline or date from the publisher, we say so.

The articles

GQ, September 2013. GQ’s September 2013 guide to TM by Josh Dean, which the old press page listed as “The Totally Stressed-Out Man’s Guide to Meditation,” ran online on September 9 and now carries the title “The GQ Guide to Transcendental Meditation.” The writer asked whether a busy, skeptical reader should take up TM. Read it at GQ.

HuffPost, October 14, 2013. “Bob Roth: Bringing Calm To The Center Of Life’s Storm,” by Ann Brenoff, profiled the David Lynch Foundation’s executive director, who learned TM at Berkeley in 1968. The old press page dated this piece October 2014; the publisher’s date is a year earlier. Read it at HuffPost.

HuffPost, January 17, 2014. “Meditation to Boost Morale, Performance and Creativity in Business,” by the psychiatrist Norman E. Rosenthal, argued that business advice books overlooked meditation and drew on Ray Dalio’s account of it. Read it at HuffPost.

Business Insider, February 12, 2014. “How Meditation Makes Ray Dalio Feel ‘Like A Ninja In A Fight’,” by Julia La Roche, reported the Bridgewater founder’s remarks at the New York town hall the night before. Read it at Business Insider.

Women’s Health, February 17, 2014. “6 Benefits of Transcendental Meditation (and How You Can Get Started Today),” by Caitlin Carlson, was a consumer guide to TM’s claimed benefits. We do not repeat its health claims; see our page on the research. Read it at Women’s Health.

Yahoo Finance, February 27, 2014. “Could this be the key to success on Wall Street? Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio thinks so,” by Nicole Goodkind for The Daily Ticker, looked at stress in banking and spoke to Bob Roth. Read it at Yahoo Finance.

Institutional Investor, February 28, 2014. Michael Peltz reported from the February town hall, where Dalio spoke about 42 years of meditating. Our summary of the report links the original.

CNNMoney, March 11, 2014. “Meditation grows popular at high-stress Wall Street firms,” by Hibah Yousuf, reported a rise in calls to the David Lynch Foundation from firms wanting its course for staff. The old press page listed it as “Wall Street says ‘Om’.” The original address no longer loads, so we link an archived copy.

Bloomberg, May 28, 2014. “Serene Traders Make Killing as Wall Street Harnesses Meditation” followed the hedge fund manager David Ford, who bought more corporate bonds during a January sell-off and credited his calm partly to 20 minutes of TM each morning. The old page listed it under a quote from Ford instead of the headline. Read it at Bloomberg.

Financial Times, July 28, 2014. Charles Wallace asked whether meditation dulls a trader’s edge. The old page shortened the headline to “creative edge”; the FT’s headline says “assertive edge.” Our summary of the column links the original.

What we left out

Three items on the old list are not above. The Wall Street Journal’s February 24, 2014, profile of the restaurant founder Erik Oberholtzer has its own page, which summarizes it briefly. We could not find a December 2013 Wall Street Journal report on a foundation benefit, or an April 2014 Modern Luxury Manhattan piece, on either publisher’s site, so they are not listed.

This page is general information, not medical advice. The Manhattan Business Review is not affiliated with the David Lynch Foundation or any Transcendental Meditation organization, and it does not sell courses. Transcendental Meditation and TM are trademarks of their owners.

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