Transcendental Meditation, or TM for short, is a technique used by many high-profile celebrities, doctors, scientists, professors, business moguls and more that provides health benefits and opportunity for clarity of mind. You can begin at any age and for any reason. To learn, you can find a TM center near you and set up an instruction period.

1. You’ll be skeptical.

You are the type of person to question anything and everything. You need hard, solid proof that things like meditation, yoga or superfoods are really more than fads and ploys to get money from people who want to be hip and healthy. Throwing out words like "EEG waves and science has found..." may be enough to convince some people that the research is foolproof, but you want to read the damn papers.

2. But you’ll keep an open mind.

Being skeptical should never stop you from trying something new. Skepticism makes you ask questions and get the truth, not avoid new experiences. You remind yourself to not let skepticism make you judgmental. You must focus your mind on betterment and embracing something you don’t quite understand. And so you embark on this new adventure.

3. You’ll feel silly.

You’re given a mantra, a word or phrase specific to you. You’ll wonder how your mantra was decided, what plays into the decision. Your instructor shows you how to use it and you wonder why you’re repeating a phrase to a stranger and can’t help but giggling because you don’t know if you’re doing this whole “meditation” thing right.

4. You will realize just how much your mind can wander.

You try to repeat your mantra to yourself but get caught up in other thoughts. What should I eat for lunch? Did I remember to respond to that email? Oh, wait — mantra, mantra, mantra...Sh*t, I forgot I have like two seasons of "Game of Thrones" to watch. F*** yeah.

5. And how tired you might be.

After sitting in silence with your eyes closed, you’ll naturally fall asleep after a few minutes each time. Turns out, that counts as meditating. So go ahead and enjoy that power nap! Your body obviously needs it.

6. You’ll listen more closely to the world around you.

When you’re not asleep, you are concentrating on your practice and listening to the cars rushing by, the sirens blaring, people conversing. You’ll be amazed at the things you don’t notice when your eyes are open.

7. And be amazed by the amount of quiet you can find in a busy city.

Despite all the noise, you’ll experience an eerie quiet. It will be uncomfortable at first. You may jump out of it as quickly as you fall into it. But eventually, you’ll see that it is quite incredible how silent and peaceful you can make the world seem.

8. You’ll feel more energized and focused throughout the day.

All of those power naps really help get you going! Once you’ve meditated, you feel like a million bucks! You are focused and energetic and ready for the world!

9. And realize just how much you can actually accomplish.

You don’t realize it at first, but you’re 10 times more productive when you’ve meditated. You won’t be as easily distracted, and you will actually want to tackle each task ahead of you! Oh, productivity. Such a nice feeling.

10. You have time to reflect.

Being alone in your own head, despite having a task while you’re there, gives you time to implicitly reflect on and refine for values and life goals. You’ll start to shape into the type of person you really want to be without being conscious of the fact that you’re doing so.

11. You’ll smile more

It’s a mystery exactly why, but you’ll find yourself showing those pearly whites for no reason at all, and you’ll definitely appreciate it.

12. You’ll feel like your head is clearer.

Not only will you be less distracted and thus more focused on the tasks ahead of you, but you will also feel like you can more effectively turn your thoughts into words and actions. That fuzziness of important thoughts that you’d like to express sort of dissipates, and you feel like a better and more expressive communicator.

13. You’ll still be skeptical.

You are instructed not to question the methods or knowledge they’ve shared with you, but to take it as it is. You want to know how and why this works in your body. You want to know how TM came about and how it persisted throughout time. You want to know why someone decided to teach it and how anyone believed them and began to follow them (It really must have seemed absurd, because it still does at first). Really, all you want to do is understand the practice fully.

14. But you’ll want to keep doing it!

Learning something new is exciting to you. It’s even more exciting when it seems to push you to be a better version of yourself. Whether or not TM ends up being right for you, it might be worth a shot to learn. It will seem ridiculous, but what’s anything great without a little insanity?

If you want to learn more about Transcendental Meditation, you can go to their site and find an instructor near you.