{"id":7624,"date":"2012-07-16T16:27:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T20:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tm.org\/blog\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2018-04-11T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T17:08:07","slug":"norwich-university-studies-benefits-of-tm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/research\/norwich-university-studies-benefits-of-tm\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich University Studies the Benefits of TM on Cadets"},"content":{"rendered":"

The results of the initial phase of a long-term, randomized, controlled study of cadets, investigating the effects of TM on psychological distress and resilience were presented by Carole Bandy, Ph.D., Norwich professor of psychology at a national summit on \u201cResilience, the Brain and Meditation\u201d held in Washington, DC on May 3rd. (See article \u201cVA testing whether meditation can help treat PTSD<\/a>\u201d in The Washington Post<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Dr. Bandy\u2019s findings, as well as the experiences of some of the Norwich research participants, are featured below:<\/p>\n

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Brandon Jennings, Senior, Norwich University Corps of Cadets:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI started meditating and I started noticing the difference right away. I became more alert and when I meditated, my body became more relaxed. My mind was rejuvenated after every time and that semester I got the highest GPA I\u2019ve ever gotten, with 23 credits, the biggest course load I\u2019ve ever taken.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ray Witkowski, Freshman, Norwich University Corps of Cadets:<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say the biggest benefit is the energy. In high school I would drink a whole thermos full of coffee and I don\u2019t have to do that anymore. It feels good to not have to rely on things like that and be able to just do it myself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Felicia Jones, Senior, Norwich University Corps of Cadets:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a skeptic at first, but now that I\u2019ve learned to meditate, it’s great. I mean I\u2019ve directly seen the benefits. I\u2019m a senior and I\u2019ve never gotten over a 3.0. This semester I\u2019ve had 22 credits, 4 lab sciences and I have a 3.6. I don\u2019t think I just got that much smarter, I think that TM has helped me focus and that way when I study I get more out of it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Sam Lieber, Junior, Norwich University Corps of Cadets:<\/p>\n

\u201cI love it, it\u2019s amazing, it feels great. I definitely want it to carry with me through the military.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nComments by Richard W. Schneider, Ph.D., President, Norwich University:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think that TM will provide us with another whole dimension for integrating all of that, improving performance in all of those domains, and I haven\u2019t found anything else that can do that yet\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cROTC commissions 70% of all the officers of the United States. Could you imagine if by this experiment at the Norwich University, the birthplace of ROTC, if we can provide a very important tool in these young officers\u2019 toolbox that they\u2019ve never had the benefit of before, we could influence 70% of the officer corps in a very short period of time; and we owe it to them to give them the very best tools to win, and I think this is one of those tools.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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To view the online video of Dr. Carole Bandy presenting the research mentioned above, as well as the entire summit on “Resilence, the Brain and Meditation,” CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/strong>
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Norwich University is the birthplace of the Reserve Officer Training Corps<\/a> (ROTC), and was the first military school in the nation to accept women.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pioneering research now underway at the nation\u2019s oldest, private military college, Norwich University in Northfield, VT, has found that the Transcendental Meditation technique provides an effective tool to assist students enrolled a rigorous program of academics and military training. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-vlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14348,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions\/14348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.tm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}