Mills & Farrow, 1981
Mills, W. W.; and Farrow, J. T. The Transcendental Meditation technique and acute experimental pain. Psychosomatic Medicine 43(2): 157–164, 1981.
Practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation technique showed less distress associated with the experience of acute experimental pain than non-meditating control subjects. This finding is discussed in relation to the growth of higher states of consciousness.
- Year
- 1981
- Journal
- Psychosomatic Medicine
- Publication type
- Journal
- Paper type
- Empirical
- Collected Papers
- Vol. 3, pp. 1759–1764
- Section
- Physiological Efficiency and Stability
Findings (1)
Response to Stress
Reduced Pain-Related Distress
Transcendental Meditation · Cross-sectional comparison of groups
Authors
- John T. Farrow, PhD
University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Walter W. Mills, MD
Veterans Administration Hospital, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA