How Transcendental Meditation Makes Ray Dalio Feel 'Like A Ninja In A Fight'

businessinsider ^ | Feb. 12, 2014 | Julia La Roche

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Billionaire Ray Dalio, the founder of hedge fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates, has been practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM) for 42 years.

"Meditation, more than any other factor, has been the reason for what success I've had."

Dalio spoke at a Transcendental Meditation Town Hall last night at the AXA Equitable Building in Midtown Manhattan along with other leaders and celebrities. Money from the event, which was hosted by the David Lynch Foundation, will go toward teaching at-risk youth and veterans meditation.

Dalio said he got into the Transcendental Meditation because of The Beatles.

"The Beatles were doing it and so it caught my attention and sounded good. I started it and it worked."

It's widely known on Wall Street that Dalio incorporates the practice of Transcendental Meditation into his investing. He says that the benefits of TM are centeredness, calmness and creativity.

"Ray runs the largest hedge fund in the world. Lives a pretty stressful life I would think with the markets," At Bridgewater Associates, Transcendental Meditation has become part of the culture with many of the fund's employees practicing it now. For his staff, Dalio offers to pay half of the cost associated with learning Transcendental Meditation from an instructor.

He says meditation has been integral to the fund's success. Because meditation helps produce calmness, the employees are able to have thoughtful disagreements without emotion.

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Here's my mantra. . . and it's a doozy!

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I received many years ago as a lad. I repeat throughout the day as needed.

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Use a disclosure: the mantra may cause a spontaneous combustion in some rare cases.