Ben Robijns

About Ben

I was very fortunate that a teacher of classical languages at my secondary school in Amsterdam taught our whole class Transcendental Meditation (TM). He had just returned from a TM teacher training course with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. It is the most precious thing I have ever learned.

An Amsterdam psychologist, Dr André Tjoa, tested our class psychologically at the time. The results showed that after one year we scored higher on IQ tests and lower on neuroticism scales, compared with a parallel class that had not learned TM.

During my medical studies in Amsterdam I became a TM teacher myself. Since then I have had the privilege of teaching the technique to almost three hundred people. From 1988 to 2019 I worked full-time as a dermatologist. Since then I still work part-time in a clinic in Oldenzaal. This has given me more time again for my first profession and calling: teaching Transcendental Meditation.

Our consciousness is the greatest wonder there is. It is our true self, but we almost always overlook it and lose ourselves in the world around us. And yet that silent, peaceful consciousness, deep within ourselves, is always present. During Transcendental Meditation the attention is drawn there by itself, and you come quite naturally to deep rest and to yourself.

Transcendental Meditation means twice a day, for 20 minutes, completely letting go of the world around us, which takes up more and more of our attention. Today that is needed even more, because we are also absorbed for many hours a day by the virtual world. That is why everyone would ideally learn TM in their youth.

The people I have taught tell me, among other things, that they experience less stress, sleep better, have more energy and can be more themselves instead of being lived by life. I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone.

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