Does transcendental meditation helps to improve reaction ability of school children

Abstract

A comparison on Reaction Ability is made between the performances of Transcendental Meditation group in three different time span. The treatment was carried over twelve subjects (Female) selected randomly from a residential school age ranging 14 – 16 years. The data were recorded over three time span that is; Initial, after six weeks and after twelve weeks. To analyze the data one – Way Repeated Measures ANOVA was applied. Significant decrease in reaction time was observed over Initial to six weeks of treatment period, p < 0.05, as well as significant decrease was found in reaction time between Initial to twelve week treatment period, p < 0.001. Therefore, Transcendental Meditation has been found very effective to improve the Reaction Ability of the school children.