Validating the Natural Law Party's Economic Programmes

• Increased Creativity: Individuals who learned the Transcendental Meditation technique showed a significant increase in creativity over a five-month period on three measures of creativity in comparison to controls (Journal of Creative Behavior, 13 (1979): 169). Other studies have demonstrated increased intelligence, academic performance, and orderliness of brain functioning (please refer to section on Education)
• Increased Profit and Productivity: Productivity and profit in a chemical manufacturing company increased progressively over a six-year period after the Transcendental Meditation programme was introduced to employees. (Enlightened Management: Building High Performance People, 1989)
• Enhanced Performance: Applications of the Transcendental Meditation programme in business settings have been shown to result in increased productivity, improved job performance and job satisfaction, reduced absenteeism, and improved relations with co-workers and supervisors (Academy of Management Journal 17 (1974): 362)
• Reduced Unemployment: A recent study of economic indicators in the U.S. and Britain found a sizeable reduction in Okun's Misery Index - defined as the sum of the inflation rate and the unemployment rate - from implementation of the coherence-creating programme proposed by the Natural Law Party (American Statistical Association, Business and Economics Statistics Section, (1987): 799; (1988): 491; (1989): 565)
• Improved Health of Industrial Employees: Scientists from the Japanese Ministry of Labour at the Institute of Industrial Health, studying nearly 700 employees of a major Japanese manufacturing company, found that those who learned Transcendental Meditation showed improved mental and physical health, decreased insomnia, and reduced cigarette smoking. (Japanese Journal of Industrial Health, 32 (1990): 656; Japanese Journal of Public Health, 37 (1990): 729)
• Decreased Need for Medical Care: A five-year study of health insurance statistics on over 2,000 persons practising the Transcendental Meditation programme - one of the prevention programmes endorsed by the Natural Law Party - found that doctors' visits and hospitalisations were less than half that of other groups of comparable age, gender, and profession. Improvements were observed in every major disease category, including an 87% drop in hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease (Psychosomatic Medicine, 49 (1987): 493)
• Reduced Health Care Costs: In a study from Quebec, medical expenses of 599 people fell by 36% over three years after starting Transcendental Meditation, compared to non-meditating control subjects. Subjects who had the highest medical costs before learning Transcendental Meditation showed an even greater reduction in expenses, which fell by 54% over three years after beginning the technique (Dissertation Abstracts International, 53 (1993): 12A)
• Decreased Absenteeism: When the Transcendental Meditation programme was introduced to the employees of a chemical manufacturing company, the number of days lost through illness fell by approximately 50% over a six-year period.

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