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Scientific Research

Experimental curve showing dramatic increase in galvanic skin resistance during the practice of NSR Meditation Fabrizio Coppola, head of the Scientia Institute in Italy, has performed electroencephalograph 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 systematic elimination of abnormality and stored stress.

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 focusing 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.

Publications

In August, 2007, we published a "pilot" technical paper with our some of our early research results concerning the reduction of anxiety in practitioners of NSR Meditation© in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Psychological Reports. An official reprint is available from us at low cost (click on Order Form above), or you may find this article in libraries or order directly from the publisher.

Effects of Natural Stress Relief Meditation on Trait Anxiety: A Pilot Study, Fabrizio Coppola, Istituto Scientia, in Psychological Reports, August, 2007, vol. 101, pages 130-134. Click here for abstract

In May, 2009, we published some of our later research confirming the dramatic reduction of anxiety and an increase in the set of psychological effects known as self-actualization.

Natural stress relief meditation as a tool for reducing anxiety and increasing self-actualization, Fabrizio Coppola, PhD, and David Spector, in Social Behavior and Personality: an International Journal, May, 2009, 37(3), pages 307-312. Click here for abstract

We invite independent researchers to contact us concerning the advantages of doing research on NSR Meditation, particularly the ease, standardization, and low cost of the learning procedure.

And we invite everyone to learn, so they can enjoy life more each in his or her individual way.

It has occurred to us that since NSR Meditation©appears to be equally effective as TM® in bringing about this unique state of restful alertness, it might be a reasonable supposition that many of the over 100 well-designed and peer-reviewed scientific studies on the well-known practice of Transcendental Meditation® might have been similarly supportive of NSR©, had NSR been included in the studies. By this reasoning, a large body of existing research might be interpreted as indicating a large range of benefits including greater psychological autonomy, increased cardiac health, reduction in drug abuse, faster reaction time, and much more for NSR Meditation.

Here is an example of one of those studies. We emphasize that this study was conducted on TM®, not NSR©:

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.".

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