Volunteers from U.S. colleges, mostly in the Washington, D.C., area, underwent physiological and psychological tests and were then randomly assigned to a TM or a control group.
Ten weeks later, the students in the TM group had higher scores on a standardized brain measurement scale and reported being less sleepy, not as jumpy and less irritable.
"The control group had lower Brain Integration Scale scores, indicating their brain functioning was more fragmented -- which can lead to more scattered and disorganized thinking and planning," Fred Travis, director of the brain research center at the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, and lead author of the study said in a university news release. "The controls also showed an increase in sympathetic reactivity and sleepiness, which can correspond to greater anxiety, worry and irritability." (More)
Source: Forbes
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TM definitely boosted my learning ability when I started practicing it back in 1979 during my final year at the E.N.S.A.M. Engineering School in Paris France. In fact I believe it helped become the top student at the time.
Years later, I was even able to take on study and research in the cutting edge field of Quantum Physics and eventually get a doctorate degree in this field, even though I was not at all prepared for such a difficult task when I started the program in 1984 at Maharishi University of Management, and I had to take care of a family of 3 kids at the same time. TM helped me stay centered in the midst of some great challenges resulting from this situation.
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