Foreword by Mehmet Oz, M.D.

Emmy Award-winning host of The Dr Oz Show and Vice Chairman and Professor of Surgery, New York
Presbyterian-Columbia University

Let me return to my surgical roots and cut to my conclusion: Dr. Norman Rosenthal’s Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Transcendental Meditation is a profoundly important book about a topic that you need to know a lot more about. Moreover, it has been written by an eminently qualified expert: an internationally respected psychiatrist and 20-year senior researcher at the National Institutes of Mental Health who first described “Seasonal Affective Disorder” and pioneered the use of light therapy.

“Dr. Norman Rosenthal’s Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation is a profoundly important book about a topic you need to know a lot more about.”

So, why is this book so incredibly valuable?

Stress wears us down, drains us of the joys
of life, fuels countless diseases and disorders,
and is slowly, or rapidly, killing us.
Cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes,
as well as digestive disorders, anxiety,
depression, are often caused, or exacerbated,
by stress. You know these grim realities—
and hopefully you are already doing
something to neutralize stress, such as

eating better and exercising more. But there is something you may not be doing, but which you really must do, beyond exercise and diet. And that is promoting your own mental resilience: developing your natural, innate ability to overcome mentally the mounting pressures and demands that pervade our lives. Stated bluntly, you must promote mental resilience or lose the fight against stress—and suffer the consequences.

Dr. Rosenthal’s Transcendence brilliantly addresses the importance of mental resilience—and much more. It reveals, in a most readable and enticing fashion, the need to access—through a simple, time-tested meditation technique—the silent core of our own Being; and it recounts the unprecedented, scientifically documented, wide-ranging benefits that naturally ensue.