{"id":2183,"date":"2010-07-29T16:59:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T20:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2010-07-29T17:27:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T21:27:28","slug":"success-tm-improve-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/news\/success-tm-improve-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired for Success\u2014Can TM improve performance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psychology Today\u2019s article titled, \u201cHow meditation can improve leaders’ performance<\/a>,\u201d highlights new research on the Transcendental Meditation technique and its effect on the brain.<\/p>\n

The article discusses how leaders in organizations are in need of new ways of dealing with the challenge to maintain high levels of performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaders need to be at the top of their game to be alert and productive at all times. Unfortunately, far too many leaders use adrenalin-type of strategies to do so, such as caffeine, long working hours and poor nutrition. Certainly the notion of slowing down and being in a peaceful state isn’t commonly seen as an effective leadership strategy. Yet recent brain research shows that meditation can actually improve performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

The stimulus for the article is new brain research conducted at American University in Washington, DC and published in a special issue of the journal Cognitive Processing\u2014one dedicated to research on the \u201cNeuroscience of Meditation and Consciousness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Psycology-Today\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This study found that college students from American University, Georgetown University, and George Washington University who learned the Transcendental Meditation technique could more highly activate the \u201cdefault mode network,\u201d a natural \u201cground state\u201d of the brain.<\/p>\n

The study found that the TM technique:<\/strong><\/p>\n