Group meditation reduces the murder rate in cities. A new study focusing on 206 large US urban areas has confirmed earlier research by the Transcendental Meditation movement. The study shows on average a decrease of 28.4 percent in urban violence. According to the authors of the study, the probability that the reduced trend in murder rates could simply be due to chance was 1 in 10 million.
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