Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

6 papers found

• 1987· Perceptual and Motor Skills· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Gelderloos, P.; Goddard III, P. H.; Ahlström, H. H. B.; and Jacoby, R. Cognitive orientation toward positive values in advanced participants of the TM and TM-Sidhi program. Perceptual and Motor Skills 64: 1003–1012, 1987.

  Three studies showed that participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program have more positive attitudes and perceptions than controls.

  • Psychological Health: Greater Orientation toward Positive Values: Lower Recognition Thresholds for Positive Words than Negative Words
  • Social Behavior: More Positive Appraisal of Others
  • Psychological Health: Greater Orientation toward Positive Values: Better Recall for Positive than Negative Words
• 1988· Social Science Perspectives Journal· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Gelderloos, P.; Frid, M. J.; Goddard, P. H.; Xue, X.; and Löliger, S. A. Creating world peace through the collective practice of the Maharishi Technology of the Unified Field: Improved US–Soviet relations. Social Science Perspectives Journal 2(4): 80–94, 1988.

  Time series analysis of public statements of the U.S. president concerning the Soviet Union indicated a warming of U.S.-Soviet relations associated with periods of high participation in the group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program in the U.S.

  • Sociological—Improved Quality of Life: Increased Friendliness in Statements of the President of the United States towards the Soviet Union (USA-USSR, 1985–1987)
• 1989· Psychophysiology· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 5
  Goddard, P. H. Reduced age-related declines of P300 latency in elderly practicing Transcendental Meditation. Psychophysiology 26: 529 (abstract), 1989.

  Older participants in the Transcendental Meditation program were found to have a more youthful style of brain functioning in response to a cognitively demanding task.

  • Electroencephalographic: Faster Processing of Cognitively Complex Information in the Elderly as Measured by Event-Related Brain Potentials
• 1990· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Walton, K. G.; Gelderloos, P.; Pugh, N.; Macrae, P.; Goddard, P.; MacLean, C.; and Levitsky, D. Stress and serotonin turnover in normal subjects: relation to serotonin deficiencies in mental disorders. Abstract presented at the 5th International Congress of Psychophysiology, Budapest, Hungary, 9-13 July, 1990.

  This study found that participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program showed higher levels of whole body serotonin turnover and less mood disturbance. In general, higher levels of whole body serotonin were correlated with less anxiety, less depression, less aggression, and less impulsiveness.

  • Biochemical: Higher Whole Body Serotonin Turnover
  • Psychological Health: Less Mood Disturbance
  • Biochemical: Higher Levels of Whole Body Serotonin Turnover Correlated with Less Anxiety, Less Depression, Less Aggression, and Less Impulsiveness
• 1990· Psychophysiology· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Cranson, R.; Goddard, P.; Orme-Johnson, D.; and Schuster, D. P300 under conditions of temporal uncertainty and filter attenuation: Reduced latency in long-term practitioners of TM. Psychophysiology 27 (Suppl. 4A): S23 (Abstract), 1990.

  Long-term practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation program were found to display faster neurocognitive processing, as measured by reduced latency of P300 brain response to auditory stimuli.

  • Electroencephalographic: Reduced Latency of Auditory Brain Response (P300)
• 1992· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 6
  Goddard, P. H. Transcendental Meditation as an intervention in the aging of neurocognitive function: Reduced age-related declines of P300 latencies in elderly practitioners. Dissertation Abstracts International 53(6): 3189B, 1992.

  Two studies found that participants in the Transcendental Meditation program showed, in comparison to age-matched controls, faster response (shorter latency of visual evoked potentials in the P300 response) to visual stimuli; in contrast, longer visual P300 latency is usually associated with aging.

  • Electroencephalographic: Faster Latency of Visual Evoked Potentials (P300)