Meditation helps patients cope with anxiety disorders, but no more than other relaxation techniques, according to a new review of studies. (more…)

Transcendental Meditation decreases blood pressure by reducing constriction of the blood vessels and thereby decreases the risk of heart disease, new research shows. (more…)

October 09, 2007

A team of researchers from China and the University of Oregon have developed an approach for neuroscientists to study how meditation might provide improvements in a person’s attention and response to stress. (more…)

Transcendental Meditation and Blood Pressure

Transcendental Meditation is an effective treatment for controlling high blood pressure with the added benefit of bypassing possible side effects and hazards of anti-hypertension drugs, (more…)

Meditation Impacts Blood Pressure, Study Shows

March 17, 2008

Transcendental Meditation is an effective treatment for controlling high blood pressure with the added benefit of bypassing possible side effects and hazards of anti-hypertension drugs, according to a new meta-analysis conducted at the University of Kentucky. The study appears in the March issue of the American Journal of Hypertension. (more…)

Transcendental Meditation reduces the brain’s reaction to pain

Neuroimaging of meditation’s effect on brain reactivity to pain

London, UK - Twelve healthy long-term meditators who had been practicing Transcendental Meditation for 30 years showed a 40-50% lower brain response to pain compared to 12 healthy controls, (more…)

Vipassana Meditation

Considered by some to be the form of meditation practiced by Gautama the Buddha more than 2,500 years ago, Vipassana, or insight meditation, is practiced primarily in south and southeast Asia but is also a popular form of meditation in Western countries. Vipassana is the oldest of the Buddhist meditation techniques that include Zen (Soto and Rinzai schools) and Tibetan Tantra.
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Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness Meditation has been described as a process of bringing a certain quality of attention to moment-by-moment experience and as a combination of the self-regulation of attention with an attitude of curiosity, openness, and acceptance toward one’s experiences. (more…)

Clinically Standardized Meditation

Clinically Standardized Meditation was developed by Patricia Carrington while she was conducting studies on meditation at Princeton University in the early-to-mid 1970s. Believing that Transcendental meditation TM® was not flexible enough to be suitable for all clinical purposes and that the cost of its instruction put it beyond the reach of most individuals and institutions, Carrington modified a classical Indian form of mantra meditation and produced what she called Clinically Standardized Meditation. (more…)

Relaxation Response

The “relaxation response” is a term coined by Harvard cardiologist Herbert Benson in the early 1970s to refer to the self-induced reduction in the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, the opposite of the hyperactivity of the nervous system associated with the fightor-flight response.
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