An Investigation into the Effects of Transcendental Meditation upon Hearing Threshold
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The study was designed to investigate the influence of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on hearing threshold, and to compare the relative influence of Transcendental Meditation and rest. A group of 29 volunteers aged between 16 and 6/ were tested, all of whom were practising TM regularly. The experiment was conducted in two phases: 15 subjects rested in the first phase and meditated in the second, while the remaining 14 subjects meditated in the first phase and rested in the second. All subjects thus served as their own controls. A standard test of hearing threshold was administered to each ear separately, at frequencies of 250, 1000, and 4000 Hz, before the first phase and again immediately after each phase of the experiment.
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