{"id":2234,"date":"2014-11-24T21:32:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T21:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/russell-brand-crusading-for-meditation\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T21:32:23","slug":"russell-brand-crusading-for-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationmag.com\/blog\/russell-brand-crusading-for-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand Crusading for Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Russell Brand has become one of the most outspoken meditation advocates of our generation.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Russell Brand didn\u2019t have the easiest childhood. \u00a0Sexually abused at seven years old, Brand suffered from psychological\u00a0dysfunction as a youth and drug addiction as a teenager. \u00a0Finding fame as an actor and comedian didn\u2019t do much for him psychologically; Brand later described his experience of fame and fortune as \u201cashes in my mouth.\u201d \u00a0However, he\u00a0eventually found meditation, which turned his life around completely.<\/p>\n<p>Brand is now one of the most outspoken advocates of\u00a0meditation in our generation, and has become a very popular speaker within the Transcendental Meditation organization (which has attracted a large following of celebrities, like\u00a0Jennifer Aniston, Ellen Degeneres, and Jerry Seinfeld).<\/p>\n<p>Talking about Russell Brand is all well and good and everything, but hearing his eloquent oration is sooo much better \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russell Brand - 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