Scientific Research
News
We have published a paper with some exciting
results concerning the reduction of anxiety in practitioners
of NSR Meditation© in the peer-reviewed scientific journal
Psychological Reports. An official preprint is available
from us at low cost (click on Order Form above).
Effects of Natural Stress Relief Meditation on Trait Anxiety: A
Pilot Study, Fabrizio Coppola, Istituto Scientia, in Psychological
Reports, Vol. 101, pages 130-134, August, 2007.
Dr. Fabrizio Coppola, head of the Scientia Institute in Italy,
has performed electroencephalographic studies and
galvanic skin response studies
(see typical graph of GSR at left) on practitioners of NSR Meditation© that
show dramatic physiological effects from this form of deep meditation.
NSR© leads the mind and body to a unique
state of restful alertness
that improves many areas of life through the dissolution of
abnormality and stored stress. (Note: this is
separate research from that reported in the paper published in
Psychological Reports.)
In this state of restful alertness, the mind experiences a deep state of pure
consciousness, the unbounded source of all thoughts. The body
naturally follows the mind, entering a deep state of rest,
deeper than that of deep sleep. All of this happens in just
a few minutes, naturally and effortlessly.
This unique state of deep rest allows the body to heal itself,
gradually removing the damaging effects of a lifetime of stress.
Ongoing research on NSR© is focussing on assessing
the large and statistically significant reduction in anxiety in
the first two weeks of practice through
psychological assessment instruments administered to ever larger
groups of practitioners.
It has occurred to us and others that since NSR Meditation© appears
to be equally effective as TM® in bringing about
this unique state of restful alertness, it may be possible that many of the
over 100
peer-reviewed scientific studies on
the well-known practice of Transcendental Meditation® may
be directly applicable to NSR©. This would provide
us with a large indirect body of research to indicate a large
range of benefits including greater psychological autonomy,
increased cardiac health, reduction of bad habits, and much more.
Example of TM® Research: Lower Blood Pressure
Effects of a Randomized Controlled Trial
of Transcendental Meditation on Components
of the Metabolic Syndrome in Subjects With
Coronary Heart Disease
Maura Paul-Labrador, MPH; Donna Polk, MD, MPH;
James H. Dwyer, PhD; Ivan Velasquez, MD;
Sanford Nidich, PhD; Maxwell Rainforth, PhD;
Robert Schneider, MD; C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD
Arch Intern Med. 2006;166:1218-1224
In a recent article in Archives of Internal Medicine
of The American Medical Association (see box at right), researchers
conclude, "Use of TM for 16
weeks in CHD patients improved blood pressure and insulin
resistance components of the metabolic syndrome as well as cardiac
autonomic nervous system tone compared with a control group
receiving health education. These results suggest that TM may
modulate the physiological response to stress and improve CHD risk
factors, which may be a novel therapeutic target for the treatment
of CHD.".
