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Dr. Schneider said that Maharishi AyurVeda and Transcendental Meditation were prominent at the conference among the range of modalities that will be introduced into Brazil's healthcare system.
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by Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, The Review
9 August 2018
Brazil is one of the first non-Asian nations to introduce integrative healthcare into the national healthcare system, and Maharishi University of Management (MUM) faculty are significantly contributing to the initiative, including giving presentations last spring at Brazil's First National Congress on Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Public Health, held in Rio de Janeiro.
Professors Robert Schneider, Sandy Nidich, and John Fagan spoke at the event, and President John Hagelin and Professor Fred Travis sent presentations.
In recent years Dr. Schneider, dean of MUM's College of Integrative Medicine, has been travelling and meeting with government officials worldwide on the need for innovative and holistic approaches to prevention and treatment for individual and public health.
"This initiative by the federal government of Brazil is real," Dr. Schneider said. "This is a major step of government implementation that will entail bringing Maharishi AyurVeda, Transcendental Meditation, and other prevention-oriented, natural health approaches to the people of the country through their national health care system."
During his keynote address on the opening day of the conference, Dr. Schneider spoke about how stress in modern society accelerates the aging process and how managing our minds can slow the aging process, citing research on the Transcendental Meditation program, heart health, and telomeres.
During the conference Dr. Nidich gave a presentation on his latest research showing that the Transcendental Meditation technique can help treat post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans. Dr. Fagan spoke about research showing that Transcendental Meditation can affect DNA expression. Dr. Hagelin sent a video on unified field-based medicine, and Dr. Travis's presentation was on how Transcendental Meditation changes the brain.
Dr. Schneider said that Maharishi AyurVeda and Transcendental Meditation were prominent at the conference among the range of modalities that will be introduced into Brazil's healthcare system.
He attributes this to the fact that he and other integrative medicine experts have served as consultants to the government in the past. In addition, there is now a track record of the success of Transcendental Meditation in Latin America due to the work of Father Gabriel Mejia and Jose Luis Alvarez Roset and his team.
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