Five volumes of collected papers, containing studies which objectively document the benefits of Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programme, have been published.

Improved school-related behaviour through the Transcendental Meditation Programme
by Global Good News staff writer
7 April 2009

Improved School-Related Behaviour

Reduced Behaviour Problems in School
• Decreased Absenteeism (51)

• Decreased Rule Infractions (51)

• Decreased Suspension Days (51)

• Decreased Dropout Rate from School in Economically Deprived Adolescents with Learning Problems (41)

• Decreased Use of Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Drugs (37, 44, 52-53)

Growth of Ideal Social Behaviour
• Increased Tolerance (13,54)

• Increased Capacity for Warm Interpersonal Relationships (33,43,54)

• Improved Work and Personal Relationships (37)

• Increased Ability To Be Objective, Fair-Minded, and Reasonable (54)

• Increased Sensitivity to the Feelings of Others (54)

• Improved Interpersonal Behaviour of Juvenile Offenders (42)

Benefits in Special Education
• Improvements in Autism: Decreased Echolalic Behaviour (55)

• Benefits for Mentally Retarded Subjects: Improved Social Behaviour; Improved Cognitive Functioning; Increased Intelligence; Improved Physical Health (56,67)

Improved Health

Improved Mind-Body Coordination
• Faster Reactions (58-60)

• Increased Psychomotor Speed (61)

Increased Energy and Dynamism

• Increased Energy and Enthusiasm (1, 37, 54)

• Increased Physical and Mental Well-Being (17,50)

• Decreased Fatigue (37)

Reduction of Stress-Related Health Problems 
• Reduction of High Blood Pressure in Adolescents and Adults (62-64)

• Decreased Insomnia (65)

Reduction of Health Care Costs
• 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 (66)

• Longitudinal Reduction in Health Care Costs (67) 

Benefits for Society: Creating an Influence of Coherence and Harmony in Collective Consciousness
Fifty research studies verify that when large groups of individuals practise the Transcendental Meditation and Transcendental Meditation Programmes with Yogic Flying together in one place, they radiate a measurable influence of coherence in the whole society:

• Reduced Crime (68-71)

• Reduced Deaths due to Homicides, Suicides, and Accidents (72)

• Improved Overall Quality of Life (70, 73-75)

• Improved Economic Trends (76)

• Reduced Conflict and Violence (70, 77-78)

Educational institutions can be a continuous source of harmony and peace for the whole society. The above findings indicate that by adding the Transcendental Meditation and Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Programmes to the existing curriculum, the educational institutions of a country can create and maintain a steady influence of positivity, prosperity, and peace for the nation as a whole.  

As the students are individually rising to their full creative potential, at the same time they are contributing directly toward the full flowering of their society's potential—even while they are students.  

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