About Us
The primary objective of Maharishi Vedic Research Foundation to encourage, support, create, train, and sustain groups of Society in various geographic centers of India to create global affluence and permanent world peace through the technologies of consciousness brought to light and revived in the world by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for the benefit of the public in India.
Beneficial Results
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Holistic Improvement in Intellectual Performance
Three randomized controlled studies among secondary school and vocational school students found that, in contrast to controls, those who learned the Transcendental Meditation technique showed significant improvement in five measures of intellectual functioning; they also showed decreased anxiety.During the practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs, the mind experiences Transcendental Consciousness-the state of unbounded awareness, the basis of creativity and intelligence. This experience stimulates a more coherent style of brain functioning and results in more comprehensive, focused, creative, and intelligent thinking.
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Improved Postgraduate Academic Performance
Master's degree engineering students who learned the Transcendental Meditation program showed improved performance on their standard examinations after six months, compared with randomly assigned control students from the same academic program.
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Decreased Hospitalization and Outpatient Visits
A five-year study of medical care utilization statistics on 2,000 people throughout the U.S. who regularly practiced the Transcendental Meditation program found that their overall rate of hospitalization was 56% lower than the norm. The group practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique had fewer hospital admissions in all disease categories compared to the norm (see chart on p. 15). The highest rates of reduction in both hospitalization and outpatient visits occurred in the 40+ age group, which normally has a higher rate of health care utilization than younger age groups, resulting in substantial cost savings.
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Reduced Psychological Stress
A statistical meta-analysis conducted at Stanford University of all available studies (146 independent outcomes) indicated that the effect of the Transcendental Meditation program on reducing trait anxiety was much greater than that of concentration or contemplation or other techniques. Analysis showed that these positive results could not be attributed to subject expectation, experimenter bias, or quality of research design.