Ende 2024 wurde deutlich, dass die gemeinsame Meditation von 10 000 Männer und Frauen aus allen Teilen der Welt in Hyderabad Indien im Januar 2024 auch das Interesse an Meditation in der Welt deutlich erhöhte.
Die Einrichtung eines Welt Meditationstags durch die Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen, der jedes Jahr am 21. Dezember begangen werden soll illustriert das.
Bedeutsam ist in diesem Zusammenhang auch, dass zur Eröffnung des ersten Weltmeditationstages Dr. T. Nader, der Repräsentant der globalen Bewegung der Transzendentalen Meditation von den Imitatoren eingeladen wurde die wissenschaftlichen Grundlage von Meditation und deren Wirkungen ausführlich vorzustellen.
Die folgende Pressemitteilung von https://worldmeditationday.world/press-release-2/ fasst die Eröffnungsveranstaltung zusammen:
UNITED NATIONS OFFERRED KEY TO WORLD PEACE
ON “WORLD MEDITATION DAY”
Official Keynote Speaker Tony Nader, MD, PhD, MARR, the Leader of Transcendental Meditation®, Cites Scientific Research on TM to Help Solve Widespread Mental Health Crisis and Global Tensions.
Dr. Nader Expects One Million New Meditators by December 2025.
Friday, December 20, 2024; New York City. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Today at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York, the core organizing nations officially inaugurated the UN’s first “World Meditation Day,” a celebration of global meditation that will be held every year on December 21 from now on.
Earlier this month, “World Meditation Day” was unanimously proclaimed by all 193 UN member states. Diplomats from the core group—India, Shri Lanka, Liechtenstein, Nepal, Mexico, and Andorra—gathered with more than 200 attendees, who included diplomats from about 30 UN member states as well as leaders of UN-affiliated non-governmental organizations, to hear Dr. Tony Nader, the official keynote speaker, offer the key to individual health and well-being and world peace.
Dr. Nader, a medical doctor and neuroscientist, is the world leader of Transcendental Meditation. He warmly congratulated the UN diplomats for their timely initiative.
The Urgent Need for Meditation Today
“Danger and fear are almost constant in today’s world,” Dr. Nader said. “They activate in us the fight-flight-or-freeze response that blocks coherent functioning of our higher brain, the prefrontal cortex, our brain’s CEO, and keeps it from thinking and planning effectively. Unless our brains have a chance to re-set, we develop mental health problems. Today’s mental health epidemic costs more than one trillion dollars annually. Unless we solve this problem, at least one quarter of us will be affected during our lifetimes.”
“Fortunately,” Dr. Nader said, “The great knowledge traditions of the past developed special meditation techniques to re-set the brain, allowing our higher brain to calm down the more primitive parts of our brain so we can think and plan clearly. And now we need those meditation techniques more than ever.”
“Meditation Is Not a Luxury, It’s a Necessity.”
“Meditation is not a luxury—it’s a necessity.” Dr. Nader said. “It is a universal re-set system that doesn’t depend on any belief or way of life. It is simple, mechanical, universal, and essential.”
Confirmed by Scientific Research
In his slide presentation, Dr. Nader reviewed a few of more than 750 scientific research studies on the health benefits of Transcendental Meditation. One published study showed that regular practice of TM results in 66% fewer deaths from heart attack and stroke. Other peer-reviewed studies have found that groups of people practicing TM together reduce crime, illness, accidents, and even war deaths. He cited one 1993 study that predicted in advance a 20% drop in crime in Washington DC when a large group went there to practice TM together. Crime actually dropped more than 23% during the three-month study period.
Creating Coherence in Individual Awareness and World Consciousness
Dr. Nader explained that by transcending thought to the state of pure awareness or pure consciousness, the TM practitioner enlivens the fundamental unified field of natural law at the basis of everyone and everything, creating waves of harmony, coherence, and peace everywhere.
“118 studies have proven that group practice of Transcendental Meditation and the advanced TM-Sidhi® program is the key to world peace,” Dr. Nader said.
One Million More Meditators by December 2025
Dr. Nader said he expects one million more practitioners of Transcendental Meditation in the world by December 2025, in time for next year’s “World Meditation Day.”
The Organizers of “World Meditation Day”
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, connected to the inauguration by live video conference from Zurich. He underlined the universality of meditation, its contribution for effective diplomacy, and its benefits for individual and collective well-being.
Among the many other UN member states represented at today’s event were the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China.
Today’s luncheon and launch event were hosted by Sugeeshwara Gunaratna, Charge d’affaires, a. i., Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka, and were moderated by Myriam Oehri, Deputy Permanent Representative and Charge d’affaires, a. i., Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein.
BACKGROUNDER
Diplomats from the Core Organizing Member States Who Spoke
at the December 20, 2024, Celebration of World Meditation Day
held at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, New York City
H.E. Lok Bahadur Thapa, Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United NationsE. Joan Forner Rovira, Permanent Representative of Andorra to the United Nations
Mr. Sugeeshwara Gunaratna, Charge d’affaires, a.i., Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations
Ms. Myriam Oehri, Deputy Permanent Representative and Charge d’affaires, a. i., Permanent Mission of Liechtenstein to the United Nations
Ms. Alicia Massieu, Deputy Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations
Mr. Pratik Mathur, Minister of the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations