Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

3 papers found

• 1989· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Alexander, C. N.; Swanson, G. C.; Rainforth, M. V.; Carlisle, T. W.; and Todd, C. C. The Transcendental Meditation program and business: A prospective study. Findings presented at the 101st Annual Session of the Iowa Academy of Science, Storm Lake, Iowa, USA, April 1989. Findings also published in abstract insert in The Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science 96: A32, 1989.

  Business employees participating in the regular practice of the Transcendental Meditation program showed reduced anxiety and alcohol and cigarette consumption; increased job satisfaction, health, productivity, and physiological stability; and improved personal and work relationships.

  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: Enhanced Sleep and Reduced Fatigue
  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: Reduced Cigarette Consumption
  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: Reduced Liquor Consumption
  • + 7 more findings
• 1993· Anxiety, Stress and Coping: An International Journal· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Alexander, C. N.; Swanson, G. C.; Rainforth, M. V.; Carlisle, T. W.; Todd, C. C.; and Oates, R. M. Effects of the Transcendental Meditation program on stress reduction, health, and employee development: a prospective study in two occupational settings. Anxiety, Stress and Coping 6: 245–262, 1993.

  This research study found that executives and employees who learned and regularly practiced the Transcendental Meditation program, in contrast to other employees from the same worksites, showed increased employee effectiveness, increased job satisfaction, improved personal and work relationships, reduced job worry and tension, reduced trait anxiety, decreased insomnia and decreased fatigue, reduced cigarette and hard liquor use, improved health, and greater calm (lower skin conductance) during task performance. The group of participants in the Transcendental Meditation program also showed, in contrast to the controls, improvement on three components found to underlie each of these measures—increased occupational coherence, increased physiological settledness, and increased satisfaction with professional and personal life.

  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: Increased Employee Effectiveness
  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: Increased Job Satisfaction
  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: Improved Personal and Work Relationships among Employees
  • + 7 more findings
• 2005· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 7
  Carlisle, Thomas W. Effects of the Transcendental Meditation program on psychological, health, social, and behavioral indicators of stress reduction and human resource development in the Indian workplace. Dissertation Abstracts International 65(12A): 4629, 2005.

  Managers who learned the Transcendental Meditation program showed decreased perceived stress, more healthy lifestyle, improved personal experiences, reduced medical symptoms, and increased self-esteem.

  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: Decreased Perceived Stress of Managers
  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: More Healthy Lifestyle of Managers
  • Organizational Performance and Well-Being: Improved Personal Experiences of Managers
  • + 2 more findings