When you were very young science has proven you existed in a state of quiet meditation. Infants are constantly slipping into and out of a dreamlike stasis which is very similar to the hypnogonic state. Easily put, it’s that half awake feeling as your just drifting into sleep or that groggy mist while slowly awakening. For most infants this is coupled with a deep brain-level of activity referred to as the delta state. A deep and peaceful trance-like state shared with many yoga masters. Watching my 9 month old son Michael I notice more and more of this soft peaceful state drifting away daily as he becomes more aware. I wonder how much stress, thoughts, vocalization, interaction and life affects our well being and happiness. - Full Article

Brain Waves and Meditation
By Veronique Cartier

What, specifically, do the terms beta, alpha, theta, and delta mean for the contemporary meditator? What type of changes actually occur in brain-wave frequencies as one progressively experiences a more holistic awareness? Current technology, including the one-of-a-kind "Brain Monitor" developed by Synchronicity Foundation's research team, enables us to answer these questions with precision.
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Meditation and The Heart
By Shashi Agarwal MD

In the June 12, 2006, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers reported a reduction in blood pressure and insulin resistance in patients with coronary heart disease when they practiced transcendental meditation for 16 weeks. In an earlier study published in Stroke in 2000, practitioners of transcendental meditation for 20 minutes twice a day, reduced their artery wall thickness, indicating improvement in the fatty deposits. This translated into a reduction in heart attack risk by up to 11 percent and stroke risk by up to 15 percent. In an another study, Robert Schneider in the American Journal of Cardiology found that in 202 elderly people practicing transcendental meditation, there were 30% fewer deaths from heart disease and 49% fewer from cancer. In a recent study reported in the Winter 2007 edition of the journal Ethnicity and Disease and sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a division of the National Institutes of Health, regular meditation was found to benefit patients with congestive heart failure. This deadly disease is diagnosed in 500,000 people and kills 300,000 people, according to figures from the American Heart Association. - Complete Article

Scientific Research on Transcendental Meditation
By Fabrizio Coppola

Scientific research has shown that the most beneficial meditation technique is Transcendental Meditation (TM). The striking reduction of stress and anxiety caused by TM are 3 times greater than the effect caused by most meditation and relaxation techniques. Transcendental Meditation has been taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi since 1958. The first articles about the beneficial effects of TM were published around 1970 on important magazines and scientific journals such as, Science (167, 1970), American Journal of Physiology (221, 1971) and Scientific American (226, 1972).
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