This study of the effects of the Transcendental Meditation program on drug abuse was performed to determine what therapeutic value the practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique has in reducing the use of nonprescribed drugs. Ten experimental and ten control subjects, matched for past drug use, were monitored for drug consumption over a three-month period. Subjects in the experimental ...

Causal analysis using cross-lagged panel correlation was performed to assess whether the relationship between Transcendental Meditation (TM) program participation and decreased crime rate in urban areas is causal. One study involved a random sample of 160 U.S. cities measured from 1964 to 1978; the second study used a random sample of 80 metropolitan areas. Results of both studies suggest that ...

A one-year longitudinal study of changes in neuroticism and intelligence, as measured by a figural reasoning test, was conducted with 14 high school students who learned the Transcendental Meditation technique and six controls. Students who practiced Transcendental Meditation regularly (N = 7) decreased significantly in neuroticism (p <.OJ), while irregular meditators (N = 7) and nonmeditating ...

Seventeen students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique regularly and 13 who had learned Transcendental Meditation but did not practice it regularly were given the !PAT Anxiety Scale and the Psychoticism, Neuroticism, Extroversion, and Lie scales of the PENL before and 3-4 months after starting the Transcendental Meditation program. It was hypothesized that anxiety, neuroticism...

The skin resistance of ten subjects was recorded every 20 seconds for four 20-minute periods of resting, reading, listening to music, or practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique. In eight out of the ten cases the highest single value of skin resistance occurred during the period of meditation. The increase in skin resistance was significantly greater during Transcendental Meditation t...

Résumé thinking, therefore, demonstrates that there is no logically coherent basis for the invention/ convention distinction that is all too often used to support the traditional belief that a musicologist’s sole task is merely the second-level analytical interpretation of musical compositions already so inventively brought into being by artists. This is an attitude that neatly excludes musicol...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of stress reduction via the Transcendental Meditation program on school rule infractions in adolescents. METHODS Forty-five African American adolescents (ages 15-18 years) with high normal systolic blood pressure were randomly assigned to either Transcendental Meditation (n = 25) or health education control (n = 20) groups. The ...

Periods of overall high EEG coherence were found during the practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique. These periods of high coherence were correlated with the subjective experience of pure consciousness, the simplest state of awareness, during Transcendental Meditation. The author proposes that the state of pure consciousness corresponds to the ground state of central nervous system ...