The TM technique is effortless because it utilizes the natural tendency of the mind to move spontaneously towards greater happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Founder of the TM program, explains effortlessness in this way: “The principle of Transcendental Meditation is simple: Being is bliss in its nature. It is infinite happiness. The mind is always moving in the direction of greater happiness. It is the experience of everyone that wherever the mind goes, it moves in the direction of greater happiness. And because the nature of inner Being is bliss, infinite happiness, during Transcendental Meditation the mind takes that inward course in a most spontaneous manner.”

One of the core values of TM is that one can practice the technique in anyway they want to. For example, if they don’t have time in the morning, one could meditate in the afternoon and in the evening; or perhaps, they don’t have a set TM chair, but meditate in bed: these different ways of practicing TM are not wrong. That’s why TM is so easy: you don’t have to adapt to TM, but rather, TM adapts to you and your lifestyle.