Research on the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs

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• 2020· Professional School Counseling· Empirical
  Bleasdale, Jane E.; Peterson, Margaret C.; Nidich, Sanford (2020). Effect of meditation on social/emotional well-being in a high-performing high school. Professional School Counseling, 23(1), 1–8.

  Randomized controlled trial of 52 students at a high-performing public high school, comparing four months of twice-daily Transcendental Meditation with a silent-reading active control.

  • Psychological Health: Fifty-two students at a high-performing high school were randomized to Transcendental Meditation or a silent-reading control, practiced twice daily over four months.
  • Psychological Health: The TM group showed significant reductions in perceived stress, anxiety, anger and depression compared with the control group.
  • Social Behavior: Fatigue and self-esteem changes favored TM but did not reach conventional significance (p = .075 and p = .054).
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• 1989· Empirical· Collected Papers Vol. 3
  Robertson, D. W.; and Peterson, J. W. Change in cardiac output during Transcendental Meditation as measured by noninvasive impedance plethysmography. Departments of Physical Education and Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA, 1980.

  A small average increase in cardiac output and stroke volume was found during the practice of the Transcendental Meditation technique, while no change was seen in heart rate.

  • During the Practice—Cardiovascular: Changes in Cardiac Output and Stroke Volume
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