John T. Farrow

Breath Suspension During the Transcendental Meditation Technique

Psychosomatic Medicine May 1, 1982 John T. Farrow, Russell Hebert 95 citations

We observed, over four independent experiments, 565 criterion-meeting episodes of breath suspension in 40 subjects practicing the Transcendental Mediation technique (TM), a simple mental technique involving no breath control procedures. The frequency and length of these breath suspension episodes were substantially and significantly greater for TM subjects than for control subjects relaxing...