Benefits to the Mind

We all need a clear, alert, creative mind—for performing well at work, for organizing our household and meeting our family’s needs, and to participate in improving our community. When brain function is more coherent and integrated, all the different parts communicate and work together better, producing improved mental performance. The Transcendental Meditation® technique improves the efficiency and orderliness of a woman’s brain, keeping us more alert and astute.

The TM® technique provides the repeatable experience of more profound, coherent levels of thought, unfolding the mind’s inner potential, and awakening the brain’s latent resources. During this effortless practice, the mind settles inward to subtle, more silent, more powerful levels and can transcend thinking to experience pure awareness, the most fundamental level of the mind. This process enlivens the reservoir of creative intelligence at the source of thought. As a result, our activity reflects increased amounts of energy, learning ability, focus, creativity, memory and productivity.

Furthermore, published scientific research shows that this technique uniquely enlivens the function of the prefrontal cortex, often called the “CEO” of the brain, allowing for more organized thought, better decision-making and improved moral reasoning.

Published studies include findings such as (click benefit to see information on publication):

Increased EEG Coherence

  1. Psychophysiology 28 (3a) (1991): S58.
  2. Psychosomatic Medicine 46 (1984): 267-276.
  3. Proceedings of the San Diego Biomedical Symposium 15 (1976).

Improved Brain Functioning

  1. Acta Medica Okayama, 60(1) (2006): 51-58.
  2. Signal Processing, 85(11) (2005): 2213-223.
  3. Brain patterns of Self-awareness. In B Beitman and J Nair, Eds. Self-Awareness Deficits. New York: W.W.Norton, 200.
  4. Human Physiology 25 (1999): 171-180.
  5. Sleep 20 (2) (1997): 102-110.
  6. Psychophysiology 31 Abstract (1994): S67.
  7. Psychophysiology 28 (3a) (1991): S58.
  8. Psychophysiology 27 Supplement (1990): 4A.
  9. Psychophysiology 26 (1989): 529.
  10. Psychosomatic Medicine 46(3) (1984): 267-276.
  11. L’Encephale [The Brain] 10 (1984): 139-14.
  12. Journal of Moral Education 12 (1983): 166-17.
  13. Experimental Neurology 79 (1983): 77-86.
  14. International Journal of Neuroscience14 (1981): 147-15.
  15. International Journal of Neuroscience15 (1981): 151-157.
  16. International Journal of Neuroscience13 (1981): 211-217.
  17. International Journal of Neuroscience10 (1980): 165-170.
  18. Progress in Brain Research 54 (1980): 447-45.
  19. Psychophysiology 14 (1977): 293-296.

Increased Flexibility of Brain Functioning

  1. Biological Psychology, 55 (2000): 41-55.

Increased Intelligence

  1. Intelligence 29/5 (2001): 419-440.
  2. Journal of Personality and Individual Differences 12 (1991): 1105-111
  3. Perceptual and Motor Skills 62 (1986): 731-738.
  4. Journal of Clinical Psychology 42 (1986): 161-16.
  5. Perceptual and Motor Skills 62 (1986): 731-738.
  6. College Student Journal 15 (1981): 140-146.
  7. Gedrag: Tijdschrift voor Psychologie [Behavior: Journal of Psychology] 3 (1975): 167-18.

Increased Creativity

  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 57 (1989): 950-96.
  2. The Journal of Creative Behavior 19 (1985): 270-275.
  3. Journal of Creative Behavior 13 (1979): 169-180.

Improved Memory

  1. Memory and Cognition 10 (1982): 207-215.

Improved Perception

  1. Perceptual and Motor Skills 64 (1987): 1003-101.
  2. Perceptual and Motor Skills 49 (1979): 270.

Improved Left Hemispheric Functioning—Improved Verbal and Analytical Thinking

  1. Perceptual and Motor Skills 62 (1986): 731-738.
  2. The Journal of Creative Behavior 19 (1985): 270-275.
  3. The Journal of Creative Behavior 13 (1979): 169-180.

Improved Right Hemispheric Functioning—Improved Synthetic and Holistic Thinking

  1. The Journal of Creative Behavior 13 (1979): 169-180.
  2. Journal of Clinical Psychology 42 (1986): 161-16.
  3. Biofeedback and Self-Regulation 2 (1977): 407-415.

Increased Field Independence—Increased Resistance to Distraction and Social Pressure

  1. Perceptual and Motor Skills 65 (1987): 613-61.
  2. Perceptual and Motor Skills 59 (1984): 999-1000.
  3. Perceptual and Motor Skills 39 (1974): 1031-103.

TM practitioners have increased creativity, higher levels of pictorial flexibility and verbal fluency in comparison to controls. The Journal of Creative Behavior 13: 169-180, 1979.

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