David F. O'Connell, Ph.D., M.S, CFC, DABPS, is a board certified forensic psychologist and a medical psychologist. He is also a conditional prescribing psychologist in primary care in New Mexico. He has been practicing Transcendental Meditation for 40 years. He has written about it previously in the Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly and in a previous edited book entitled, Self Recovery: Treating Addictions Using Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi Ayurveda (1994). O'Connell has taught graduate level courses in counseling psychology at Rosemont University and undergraduate psychology courses at Drexel University and Alvernia University. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Adolescent Chemical Dependency. This will be his 7th book. Deborah L. Bevvino, PhD, NP is currently the behavioral medicine faculty associate in the Family Practice and Community Medicine Residency Program at Reading Hospital & Medical Center. She holds adjunct assistant clinical faculty positions at Penn State University School of Medicine and the Sidney Kimmel Family and Community Medicine College of Jefferson University. She is a practicing psychologist at the Center for Mental Health at Reading Hospital and is also an Adult Nurse Practitioner. She has been practicing Transcendental Meditation and Ayurveda for twenty years.