--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, merlin <vedamerlin@...> wrote: > > > > > > > Research shows 70% reduction in health care expenses of elderly people > practising Transcendental Meditation > > Ask the Doctors   > 23 July 2011 > > > Another in a series of peer-reviewed, scientific research studies > investigates how the Transcendental Meditation program lowers health-care > costs. > > The second study to be considered in this seriesâ"a study of Transcendental > Meditation participants over the age of 65â"investigated whether the > Transcendental Meditation technique can reduce medical expenditures in the > elderly. > > Payments to physicians for treating 163 Transcendental Meditation > practitioners over the age of 65 were compared with those for 163 control > subjects matched for age, sex and other factors. > > The TM group's five-year cumulative reduction in payments to physicians was > 70% less than the control group's. > > This is especially significant because the elderly account for > disproportionately higher expenses than the rest of the population. Rising > costs for health care for the elderly are a major concern for governments and > health insurance providers throughout the world. > > Reference: Herron, R.E. Cavanaugh, K. Can the Transcendental Meditation > Program Reduce the Medical Expenditures of Older People? A Longitudinal Cost > Reduction Study in Canada. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 2005, > 17: 415-442. > > Click here for more about Transcendental Meditation and reduced health care > costs, including related research showing reduced health care utilization in > all categories of disease, and other published studies. > > © Copyright 2011 American Association of Physicians Practicing the > Transcendental Meditation Technique >
"Journal of Social Behavior and Personality," reads like a study that may harness belief. Some people practicing belief or a trained practice of relaxation, who have chronic illness may feel it is best not to go to the physicians because it is belief they can heal otherwise, or someone claiming to use alternatives outside of themselves, can heal them for a fee, which this fact would bring down the cost of needing physicians until it may be too late and death is knocking at one's door. In this respect, I can see a 70% reduction in health care cost occurring. There may not be much life left by this time.
