Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

3 papers found

• 1990· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Dixon, C. A. Consciousness and cognitive development: A six-month longitudinal study of four-year-olds practicing the children’s Transcendental Meditation technique. Doctoral dissertation (abstract), Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, 1989. Abstract of findings also published in Dissertation Abstracts International 51(3): 1518B, 1990.

  Four-year-old children practicing a procedure prior to learning the Transcendental Meditation technique increased significantly on empirical factors measuring cognitive development and intelligence.

  • Cognitive Performance: Accelerated Cognitive Development in Children
• 1990· Theoretical/Review· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Alexander, C. N.; Davies, J. L.; Dixon, C. A.; Dillbeck, M. C.; Oetzel, R. M.; Druker, S. M.; Muehlman, J. M.; and Orme-Johnson, D. W. Growth of higher stages of consciousness: Maharishi’s Vedic Psychology of human development. Summary of a chapter appearing in Higher Stages of Human Development: Perspectives on Adult Growth, ed. C. N. Alexander and E. J. Langer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

  The authors describe how theory and research in Maharishi's Vedic Psychology fulfills the quest of psychology to understand and promote the full range of human development.

  • Review Paper—Psychology: Theoretical and Review Paper—Developmental Psychology
• 2005· Journal of Social Behavior and Personality· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 7
  Dixon, Carol A.; Dillbeck, Michael C.; Travis, Frederick; Msemaje, Horus I.; Clayborne, B. Mawiyah; Dillbeck, Susan L.; Alexander, Charles N. Accelerating cognitive and self-development: Longitudinal studies with preschool and elementary school children. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 17: 65–91, 2005.

  Two longitudinal studies of elementary school students found improvements in cognitive factors underlying performance on mental tests among students who learned the Transcendental Meditation technique, or Maharishi’s Word of Wisdom technique for those under 10 years of age.

  • Cognitive Performance: Increased General Intellectual Performance
  • Cognitive Performance: Increased Psychological Differentiation
  • Cognitive Performance: Increased Analytical Ability
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