A pathbreaking study being conducted by California-based corporation Sound for Hope, in collaboration with SRM Medical College in Chennai,

aims to utilize the ancient wisdom of mantras and sounds practised by Yogis and find an urgent application in the modern context for helping lower rampant stress levels among students and develop their psychological well-being.
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, shares Dr. Swapna Subramanian, Lead Researcher, Department of Medical Research, SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Center, Chennai. Mind-Sound Technology (MST) is an internationally acclaimed intelligence-enhancing program developed by Dr. Baskaran Pillai, a scholar-mystic and global thought leader. MST has already been implemented with over 5000 children and adults around the world, and has demonstrated very positive results with higher academic scores, greater focus and concentration, cooperation and participation, feelings of peace and happiness, and overall well-being. The premise of Mind-Sound Technology is that mind is dependent on language and that language is basically sounds, which are the fundamental building blocks of intelligence.
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, says Meena Mulloy, an experienced MST teacher who trained the students.

Much earlier, American Professor Dr. Norman Cousins had coined the term Psycho-neuroimmunology for his research on how thoughts and beliefs can translate into biological reality and impact ones health. Also, the impact of human speech on water droplets was conclusively proved by Japanese researcher Dr. Masaru Emoto in his pioneering work Messages from Water. He found that water crystals assumed beautiful or ugly shapes depending on whether positive or negative words and thoughts were directed at them. Though along similar lines, the MST study is unique because it works directly with sound waves, rather than human speech. Most importantly, the study hypothesizes that if psychosomatic illness exists, then psychosomatic wellness must also exist.
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Lawson, Co-Researcher, Sound for Hope, California, USA. The MST study comes at an opportune time when millions of students across India are taking examinations at various academic levels. While the hope of making learning stressfree might sound appealing to the students, their parents would be the ones actually heaving a sigh of relief. ---------------------------------