1982/01/01 by Robert K. Wallace, Michael C. Dillbeck, Eliha Jacobe And +1 · 1 citation
Medicine · Psychology · #Audiology #Blood pressure #Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies #Gerontology #Internal medicine #Medicine #Meditation #Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions #Population #Psychology #Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery #Theology #Transcendental meditation
paper · doi:10.3109/00207458209147602
openalex publication_date 1982/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/26
To evaluate the effects of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi program on the aging process, a standardized test of biological aging, utilizing auditory threshold, near point vision, and systolic blood pressure, was given to a cross-sectional group (N = 84) with a mean age of 53 years. There were 11 controls, 33 short-term TM and TM-Sidhi participants, and 40 long-term participants. The mean biological age of the controls was 2.2 years younger than for the general population; of the short-term TM subjects, 5.0 years younger; of the long-term TM subjects, 12.0 years younger. The difference between the groups was significant covarying for a diet factor. Also, there was a significant correlation between length of time practicing the TM program and biological age (r = -0.46). Together with numerous physiological and psychological studies conducted on the TM and TM-Sidhi program, this study suggests that the TM program may affect certain neural mechanisms which in turn influence age correlated physiological variables.