Open AccessTRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN HYPERTENSION
Author(s) -
Barry Blackwell,
Saul S. Bloomfield,
Peter S. Gartside,
Ann Robinson,
Irwin B. Hanenson,
Herbert Magenheim,
Sanford Nidich,
Ronald Lee Zigler
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
lancet
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1474-547X
pISSN - 0140-6736
DOI - 10.1016/s0140-6736(76)91341-6
Subject(s) - transcendental meditation , meditation , transcendental number , psychology , medicine , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , philosophy , theology , epistemology
Seven selected hypertensive patients were stabilized on drugs at a research clinic. Subjects learned transcendental meditation (T.M.), were seen weekly, and took their own blood pressure several times daily. After 12 weeks of T.M. six subjects showed psychological changes and reduced anxiety scores. Six subjects also showed significant reductions in home and four in clinic blood-pressures. Six months later four subjects continued to derive psychological benefit and two showed significant blood-pressure reductions attributable to T.M. at home and clinic.