Research Into Transcendental Meditation

What Research Says

The Transcendental Meditation technique is the most thoroughly researched programme in the field of human development. The American National Institutes of Health (NIH) has spent more than $21 million conducting research on the beneficial effects of the Transcendental Meditation programme on heart disease alone.

Benefits for Everyone

Over 600 scientific studies at more than 200 independent research institutions in 35 countries during the past 40 years confirm that the technique works—and brings remarkable benefits to people around the world. Research on the Transcendental Meditation programme has been published in more than 100 leading scientific journals, including Scientific American, Business and Health, Science, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. (see full list below)

Research conducted around the world documents that the programme is universally effective for:

All cultural and ethnic groups
All age groups—from increased alertness in infants of meditating parents, to increased health, happiness, and longevity in meditating elderly
People of all socioeconomic levels and intellectual abilities

View Research Charts

These charts are a small sampling of the more than 600 scientific studies which have been conducted at over 200 independent research institutions in 35 countries during the past 40 years.

Mind

Body

Relationships

Professional Life

World

Scientific and Medical Journals that Have Published Original Research or Reviews on the Transcendental Meditation Programme Medicine

Acta Medica Okayama
Alternative Therapies
Alternative Therapies in Clinical Practice
American Journal of Cardiology
American Journal of Health Promotion
American Journal of Hypertension
American Journal of Managed Care
Archives of Internal Medicine
Australian Family Physician
Behavioral Medicine
British Journal of Nursing
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Circulation
Complementary Medicine International
Current Hypertension Reviews
Dentistry and Medicine
Est-Medicine
Ethnicity and Disease
Harefuah, Journal of the Israel Medical Association
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Health Promotion
Homeostasis
Hypertension
Japanese Journal of Industrial Health
Japanese Journal of Public Health
Journal of Aging and Health
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Journal of Human Stress
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
Journal of the American Association of Nephrology
Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic
Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
Journal of the National Medical Association
Lancet
Medical Hypotheses
New Zealand Family Physician
New Zealand Medical Journal
Nurses and Technicians
Psychosomatic Medicine
Respiration
Socialstyrelsen (Swedish National Health Board publication)
Stroke
Ugeskrift for Lœger

Physiology and Neuroscience

American Journal of Physiology
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Biofeedback
Biofeedback and Self-Regulation
Biological Psychology
Biulleten Eksperimental Biologii Meditsiny
Cognitive Processes
Consciousness and Cognition
Dreaming
Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology
Elektromyographie EEG-EMG
Experientia
Experimental Neurology
Hormones and Behavior
Human Physiology (Fiziologiya Cheloveka)
International Journal of Neuroscience
International Journal of Psychophysiology
Journal of Applied Physiology
Journal of Neural Transmission
L'Encephale
NeuroReport
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Physiology and Behavior
Proceedings of the San Diego Biomedical Symposium
Progress in Brain Research
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Psychopathometrie
Psychophysiology
Revista Internacional De Ciencias Del Deporte (International Journal of Sports Science)
Revue d'Electroencéphalographie et de Neurophysiologie Clinique
Science
Scientific American
Signal Processing
Sleep
Zeitschrift für Elektroenzephalographie und Elektromyographie EEG-EMG