Research indicates that bio-chemical stress indicators are reduced in people located close to a meditation group. Amazingly, we see that meditators reduce cortisol in others. And they don’t have to be standing next to them or interacting socially for this effect to kick in.
During the study, as the numbers of a meditating group increased, there was a correlation between a decrease in a nearby subject group’s cortisol levels (a hormone associated with stress) and an increase in their serotonin levels (a hormone associated with mental well-being).
“We have hypothesized that group practice of the TM-Sidhi program can affect society, and this study helps to understand the effect”. The study also helps explain why crime rate drops in the vicinity of a TM-Sidhi group. Similarly we can see why a group of meditators reduces war deaths nearby and so on. Dr. Walton, one of the researchers conducting the study, stated. “Group practice actually reduces the effects of stress, in those in the vicinity. This is in a manner similar to the reduction within the individual meditator, when he practices the Transcendental Meditation programme.”
Meditators reduce cortisol in others – Research authors
Pugh ND, Walton KG, Cavanaugh KL;
Study title
Can time series analysis of serotonin turnover test the theory that consciousness is a field?
Publication
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 14: 372, 1988.
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