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Herron, R. E., Hillis, S.L. (2000). The impact of the Transcendental Meditation program on government payments to physicians in Quebec: An update. Am J Prom., 14(5), 284–293.
Abstract: An update — accumulative decline of 55% over a 6-year period.
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Kenneth G. Walton, P. D., Robert H. Schneider, MD, Sanford I. Nidich, EdD, John W. Salerno, PhD, Cheryl K. Nordstrom, PhD, MPH, and C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD. (2002). Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease Part 2: Effectiveness of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Treatment and Prevention. Behav Med, 28(3), 106–123.
Abstract: Psychosocial stress is a nontraditional risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality that may respond to behavioral or psychosocial interventions. To date, studies applying such interventions have reported a wide range of success rates in treatment or prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The authors focus on a natural medicine approach that research indicates reduces both psychosocial and traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease—the Transcendental Meditation (TM) program. Randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses, and other controlled studies indicate this meditation technique reduces risk factors and can slow or reverse the progression of pathophysiological changes underlying cardiovascular disease. Studies with this technique have revealed reductions in blood pressure, carotid artery intima-media thickness, myocardial ischemia, left ventricular hypertrophy, mortality, and other relevant outcomes. The magnitudes of these effects compare favorably with those of conventional interventions for secondary prevention.
Keywords: cardiovascular disease, psychosocial stress, review, Transcendental Meditation
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Wood, M. F. (1981). The effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation as a means of improving the echolalic behavior of an autistic student (Vol. 3). [Seelisberg, Switzerland] : Maharishi European Research University, 1990.
Abstract: Findings: Improved echolalic behavior in autistic student.
Keywords: Transendental meditation, TM-Sidhi Programme, Autism, students
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Robert W. CransonCorresponding author contact information, 1, David W. Orme-Johnson1, Jayne Gackenbach2, Michael C. Dillbeck1, Christopher H. Jones1, Charles N. Alexander1. (1991). Transcendental meditation and improved performance on intelligence-related measures: A longitudinal study. J Per & Indiv Diff., 12(10). Retrieved May 16, 2012, from http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-8869(91)90040-I,
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This two-year longitudinal study investigated the effect of participation in a special university curriculum, whose principal innovative feature is twice-daily practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program, on performance on Cattell's Culture Fair Intelligence Test (CFIT) and Hick's reaction time. These measures are known to be correlated with general intelligence. One hundred college men and women were the subjects—45 from Maharishi International University (MIU) and 55 from the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). The experimental group (MIU) improved significantly on the CFIT (t=2.79, P<0.005); choice reaction time (t=9.10, P<0.0001); SD of choice reaction time (t=11.39, P<0.0001), and simple reaction time (t=2.11, P<0.025) over two years compared to the control group, which showed no improvement. Possible confounds of subject's age, education level, level of interest in meditation, father's education level, and father's annual income were controlled for using analysis of covariance and stepwise regression. The results replicate the findings of previous longitudinal studies on intelligence test scores at MIU, and indicate that participation in the MIU curriculum results in improvements in measures related to general intelligence.
Keywords: meditation, intelligence, transendental meditation, test scores
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Segall, S. R. (2005). Mindfulness and Sefl Development in Psychotherapy. J Trans. Pschy, 37(2), 143–163.
Abstract: This article explores how the Buddhist concept of mindfulness and techniques for fostering it can, when expropriated by Western clinical psychology, play a valuable role in self-development in psychotherapy. Mindfulness practice expands the field of awareness, allowing for improved monitoring of somatic and affective experiencing, and thereby enhancing the capacity for self-regulation of arousal, affect, and behavior. It facilitates the development of a sense of embodiment and the capacity to tolerate and accept painful experience. It promotes the self-monitoring and decontextualization of automatic thoughts that serve to sustain pathological structures. Mindfulness also facilitates the development of inner resources that help stabilize affect and reduce impulsivity. Case examples of the use of mindfulness-based techniques in individual and group therapy sessions illustrate these points.
Keywords: Mindfulness
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