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177Nearly 30% of Americans complain about insomnia. Insomnia causes unclear thinking, poor motor performance, and impaired quality of life. Poor sleep increases healthcare utilization, absenteeism, and accidents, and it presents a substantial fi nancial burden on society. Decades of research have linked chronic sleep deprivation to increased risk for obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and problems with immune function.Scientifi c research indicates that the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique reduces insomnia by approximately 30%%u201365% in many populations: business executives and employees, industrial workers, war veterans suffering from PTSD, prison inmates, chronic insomniacs, adolescents, the general population, and psychiatric patients. TM decreases nighttime cortisol, one of the biomedical hallmarks of insomnia, by 40%.TMTechniquePrison InmatesGeneralPopulationUSAPsychiatric PatientsGeneralPopulationItalyWar Vets withPTSDChronic InsomniacsAdolescentsDecreased Cortisol at NightExecutives & EmployeesIndustrialWorkersp = .0025p = .05p = .01p = .0001p = .001p = .05p = .02p = .05p = .001p = .01Improved Sleep Qualitytm-025SLEEP BETTER, WAKE REFRESHEDReferences:1. Anxiety, Stress and Coping: An International Journal. 1993; 6:245%u201362.2. Japanese Journal of Public Health. 1990; 37(10 Suppl.):729.3. Journal of Counseling and Development. 1985; 64:212%u20135.4. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 1978; 5:3%u201320.5. Scientifi c Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected Papers, Vol 1. 1977; paper 41.6. Scientifi c Research on Maharishi%u2019s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program: Collected Papers, Vol 2. 1978/1989; paper 153.7. Scientifi c Research on Maharishi%u2019s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program: Collected Papers, Vol 2. 1976/1989; paper 126.8. Scientifi c Research on Maharishi%u2019s Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Program: Collected Papers, Vol 3. 1981; paper 239. 9. Comparative Psychiatry. 1975; 16(4):303%u201321.10. Journal of Alternative Complementary Medicine. 1995; 1(3):263%u201383.