I got pregnant at 13. My mom, she got deported two years ago. Sometimes I cry, cause it's, it's just too much tension. We were attacked at this place called Puda...the first night I killed 14 people. The number of women and girls who are raped and tortured and killed in war-torn areas around the globe is literally beyond comprehension. My in-laws turned against me...they tortured me...almost killed me. I was just so frustrated and full of misguided anger...I didn't know where to direct it to. Sorrow, anxiety, traumatic stress, depression, hate, anger, rage, fear....start to lift away...life just gets better and better and better. When it's calm and still, even what's struggle becomes beauty. I used to say, "Imma get my grades up, imma do better..." but yet it was just what I said, it never happened until I started meditating. I think every ghetto school in America has to have the fundamental right of having an opportunity to do this type of thing. Stay regular in your meditation. Don't let anybody take it away...and you will unfold your full potential. I think this is what people need. They don't need high-minded talk so much as results. The amazing thing about Transcendental Meditation is the very well established research showing that the technique impacts things that we didn't think were changeable. The initial research of the effects of Transcendental Meditation in treating PTSD offer so much hope...better than many things being tried, at far less a cost. I've been meditating, uh, 37 years. All that feeling of heaviness...I can feel it melt away. It was absolutely transformational. I had a lot of problems in my life, and TM came into my life and gave me, like, this open door to something that I never knew it would be. Those days I used to cry to much. But now even the tears are holding. I'm great! Real change for the good truly begins within.