Maharishi Effect
Reduced Anxiety
through the Transcendental Meditation program
Figure 2. A statistical meta-analysis of all available studies (146 independent outcomes) indicated that the effect of the Transcendental Meditation program on reducing state-trait anxiety was approximately twice as great as that of all other meditation and relaxation techniques. Duration of study, dropout rate, and number of follow-up hours of instruction were statistically controlled, and samples were matched for type of population. Analysis also showed that the positive result for the Transcendental Meditation program could not be attributed to subject expectation, experimenter bias, or quality of research design.
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