I learned Transcendental Meditation when I was very young. I was a teenager. It was a very emotionally confusing and difficult time in my life, and what I found with my regular practice of TM is that inner stability, clarity, and happiness began to increase in my life, and I began as a skeptic and after a year of meditating I was sold out because I enjoyed the results, I needed the results, at that time in my life. It just continued to add to my personal growth, to my inner stability, to my ability to handle all the challenges and ups and downs, and opportunities in life. And that's why I continue meditating. Now that I'm older and my children are grown and I'm facing the challenges that we all face in the boomer generation of aging, I value it even more. Because, in my opinion, the best defense against aging is a rich inner life and inner strength. And that's the reason why I continue to value meditating now, at this time in my life.