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From performing to teaching Transcendental Meditation Krystle Liggins is truly a performer. She knew from a young age that that was where she was headed. But her desire to perform went beyond entertainment. She wanted to have a positive impact on people’s lives. When she graduated from Knox College, Krystle’s plan was to get an MFA in musical theatre. But she felt the stress of performing and that there was something missing. ‘I was feeling that there was some deeper connection that I could possibly have, that I could provide to an audience. . . I didn’t feel that those particular qualities were nourished in me yet. There was a potential but it needed to be watered somehow.’ After hearing about Maharishi University of Management (MUM), where students, faculty, and staff all practise Transcendental Meditation, she decided to spend a year of self-development there so that she would have more of herself to give to her audiences. Once at MUM, Krystle found that the deeper qualities, which had not previously been nourished in her, started to get watered. ‘It’s like that deeper self within you,’ Krystle said, describing what was enlivened through her practice of Transcendental Meditation and by being an MUM student. ‘It’s like that voice that gives light to who you are, how you can connect with other people and how you can help bring light to their lives as well,’ she went on. Krystle said that once those qualities were more awake, she naturally just wanted to keep growing. ‘So I did everything possible that the school had to offer that allowed that growth to come about.’ Giving back—sharing the gift of transcending After getting her MA in Vedic Science at MUM, Krystle became a teacher of Transcendental Meditation so that she could share with others all that the practice offered. With that, she has found herself ‘learning more about silence, learning more about knowledge and speaking knowledge and sharing that with others and then being able to share that gift of transcending with others.’ As a teacher of Transcendental Meditation, Krystle chose to work in a project that brings the Quiet Time Program with the Transcendental Meditation technique to public school students to allow the systematic development of their full inner potential and the blossoming of their creativity and intelligence. She is seeing its popularity and success not only in the 4 schools where it is currently going on. In addition, she notes, ‘There are 15 schools on the waiting list and we’ve had even more schools asking if they could have Quite Time Program in their schools.’ Krystle is teaching Transcendental Meditation in a high school. She explains that the kids may be a bit aloof at first. But, she says, ‘When you tell them what it’s about, what TM does—it’s simple, it’s easy, it’s natural—they kind of start to listen when you bring it to their life, or relate it to who they are or who they see themselves as on the earth right now.’ The young teacher shares, ’For me, they kind of feel like my brothers and sisters. I’m not too much older than they are. So I kind of feel like they really listen when I speak to them. And it feels good because you kind of have that quality of "I’m actually really giving back to my community." I can see that happening on a daily basis—that I’m making an impact on these kids’ lives.’ Performing is still in Krystle’s heart. In teaching Transcendental Meditation, she is giving her students the ability to feel the fullness and joy of great entertainment—from within. And she is thrilled to be fulfilling her deep desire to have a positive impact on others’ lives.
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