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1. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
FINDINGS:
DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS
Here are lists of research findings on the Transcendental Meditation
and TM-Sidhi programs that are significant for the educational process.
The numbers in parentheses after the finding refer to the references of
the papers, listed below in section 6.
Increased Intelligence, Learning Ability, and Intellectual Performance
- Increased Intelligence (1 - 7)
- Increased Learning Ability (8 - 9)
- Improved Memory (9 - 10)
- Accelerated Cognitive Development in Children (11 - 13)
- Improved Cognitive Flexibility (9 - 10)
- Increased Efficiency of Concept Learning (8)
- Faster Processing of Cognitively Complex Information (14)
- Broader Comprehension and Improved Ability to Focus Attention-Increased Field Independence (4, 13, 15)
- Cognitive Orientation towards Positive Values (16)
- Improved Problem-Solving Ability (2)
Improved Academic Performance and Academic Orientation
- Improved Academic Performance (17 - 20)
- Improved Standardized Test Scores on General Academic Achievement, Social Studies, Literary Materials, Reading, Mathematics, Language, and Work Study Skills (17 - 18)
Increased Creativity
- Enhanced Creativity (2, 5, 21)
- Increased Innovation (2)
Optimizing Brain Functioning
- Mobilization of the Hidden Reserves of the Brain: Wider Distribution of the Brain's Response to Sensory Input (22)
- Increased Neurological Efficiency:
- Increased Efficiency of Information Transfer in the Brain (14, 23 - 28)
- Improved Spinal Reflex Activity (29, 30)
- Improvements in Reaction-Time Measures that are Correlated with Intelligence (7)
- Greater Adaptability of Brain Functioning (31)
- Faster Processing of Cognitively Complex Information in the Elderly (9)
- Increased Efficiency and Decreased Age-Related Deterioration of Cognitive Information Processing as Measured by Event-Related Potentials (14)
- Correlations Found in Subjects Practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs:
- Between High EEG Coherence, Higher States of Consciousness, and High Levels of Creativity (32)
- Between High EEG Coherence, Neurological Efficiency, and Flexibility of Concept Learning (8)
- Between High EEG Coherence, High Levels of Principled Moral Reasoning, and a Unified Cosmic Perspective on Life (33)
Improved Mind-Body Coordination
- Faster Reactions (34 - 36)
- Increased Psychomotor Speed (37)
Increased Organizational Ability and Efficiency
- Increased Time Competence: Increased Ability to Think and Act Efficiently in the Present (38 - 40)
- Increased Efficiency and Productivity (41, 42)
- Increased Employee Effectiveness (42)
- Decreased Tendency to Procrastinate (43)
Increased Energy and Dynamism
- Increased Energy and Enthusiasm (2, 42, 44)
- Increased Physical and Mental Well-Being (9, 46, 47)
- Decreased Fatigue (42)
Improved Health
Lower Health Insurance Utilization Rates: Significantly Fewer Hospital Inpatient Days, and Outpatient Visits in All Age Categories; Fewer Inpatient Admissions for All Major Categories of Disease (47)
- Longitudinal Reduction in Health Care Costs (48)
- Improved Self-Health Rating (9, 42, 45, 46, 49)
Increased Integration of Personality
- Increased Self-Actualization: Increased Integration, Unity, and Wholeness of Personality (38 - 40)
- Uniquely Effective Means of Increasing Self-Actualization (40)
- Uniquely High Scores on Self-Development in Advanced Participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs (50)
- Orientation towards Positive Values: Better Recall for Positive than Negative Words; Lower Recognition Thresholds for Positive Words than Negative Words; More Positive Appraisal of Others (16)
- Increased Inner-Directedness: Greater Independence and Self-Supportiveness (38 - 40)
- Increased Autonomy and Independence (2, 40, 50)
- Less Sensitivity to Criticism (51)
- Enhanced Self-Concept (52)
- Enhanced Self-Regard and Self-Esteem (2, 51, 53, 54)
- Enhanced Inner Well-Being (9)
- Increased Emotional Stability (43, 55, 56)
- Increased Emotional Maturity (44)
- Decreased Behavioral Rigidity (9)
- Improved Mental Health (9, 38, 39, 42 - 46, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57 - 64)
Reduction in Negative Personality Characteristics
- Decreased Anxiety (2, 42, 44, 54, 55, 57, 58, 60, 62, 65)
- Decreased Tension (42, 43, 58)
- Decreased Neuroticism (43, 45, 51, 59, 62, 63)
- Decreased Depression (43, 51, 55)
- Decreased Irritability (60)
- Decreased Hostility (60)
- Decreased Impulsiveness (44, 45, 58)
- Decreased Use of Cigarettes (42, 66 - 70)
- Decreased Use of Alcohol (42, 55, 61, 66 - 69, 71)
- Decreased Drug Abuse (43, 66 - 69, 72)
Growth of Ideal Social Behavior
- Increased Social Maturity (3)
- Increased Sociability (44)
- Increased Capacity for Warm Interpersonal Relationships (39, 43, 44)
- Increased Friendliness (43)
- Improved Work and Personal Relationships (42)
- Increased Ability to Be Objective, Fair-Minded, and Reasonable (44)
- Increased Good Humor (43)
- Increased Trust (51)
- Increased Tolerance (2, 44)
- Growth of a More Sympathetic, Helpful, and Caring Nature (44)
- Increased Sensitivity to the Feelings of Others (44)
- Effective Rehabilitation (54, 60, 63, 73)
Benefits in Special Education and Remedial Education
- Improvements in Personality Relevant to Learning Disorders in Economically Deprived Adolescents with Learning Problems (53):
- Increased Independence and Self-Supportiveness
- Improved Self-Regard
- Decreased Dropout Rate from School in Economically Deprived Adolescents with Learning Problems (53)
- Improvements Among Inner-City Children from Low-Income Families (74)
- Increased Intelligence
- Improved Self-Concept
- Improvements in Autism: Decreased Echolalic Behavior (75)
- Benefits for Mentally Retarded Subjects:
- Improved Social Behavior (76)
- Improved Cognitive Functioning (76, 77)
- Increased Intelligence (76, 77)
- Improved Physical Health (76)
- Normalization of Neurotransmitter Metabolite and Plasma Cortisol Levels (77)
- Decreased Stuttering (78, 79)
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