The Psychobiology of Transcendental Meditation: A Literature Review"In the past four years, Transcendental Meditation (TM) has been the subject of more research than any of the other meditative techniques, and yet there has been no literature survey on the psychophysiology of TM as there have been for other forms of meditation. For those two reasons we devote this review almost exclusively to research and literature on TM"--preface. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Energy Metabolism | 16 |
PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES | 23 |
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