If a person thinks positively and avoid negative thoughts and emotions, positive things tend to come into being for the person.

If a family thinks positively and avoid negative thoughts and emotions, positive things tend to come into being for the family.

If a football team thinks positively and avoid negative thoughts, positive things tend to come into being for the football team.

If the population of a country thinks positively and avoid negative thoughts, positive things tend to come into being for the country.

If the world thinks positively and avoid negative thoughts, positive things tend to come into being for the world.

What is true on the individual level, is true on the collective level. Our fear, our hate, our negativity, our pessimism brings about the very things we do not want to happen. I wonder what would happen if the world collectively believed that we could solve poverty, war, climate change, eco-destruction and all the rest of the problems we have created for ourselves.

During the 1980s, a series of studies and experiments were conducted to investigate the impact of group meditation on societal stress and crime. One prominent example is the "Maharishi Effect," named after Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the TM program. (Trancendental Meditation)

In the 1980s, a specific study involving Miami demonstrated that large groups practicing TM and its advanced TM-Sidhi program were associated with a reduction in crime rates. This research suggested that when a critical mass of people practiced TM together, it generated a positive influence on the collective consciousness of the area, leading to decreased stress and consequently lower crime rates.

One of the notable studies during this period was conducted in Washington, D.C., in 1993. It followed a similar methodology where around 4,000 practitioners of TM participated in a large-scale meditation effort. The results indicated a significant reduction in violent crime by up to 23.3% during the meditation period, compared to the forecasted levels based on previous trends and other variables such as weather​

These findings are part of a broader body of research suggesting that meditation can have far-reaching social benefits, potentially due to its effects on reducing collective stress and promoting social coherence​.