Meditate Your Stress Away

Are the shorter days and longer nights getting you down? Recession making it harder to smile? Try transcendental meditation to soothe what ails you.

College students who spent about 20 minutes at least once a day in a state of transcendental meditation experienced lower blood pressure, reduced psychological distress, anxiety and depression. Dr. Sanford Nidich, at Maharishi University of Management Research Institute in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa, studied 298 healthy college students under the age of 26 with and without high blood pressure to transcendental meditation.

The study group that practiced meditation had greater reductions in mood imbalances such as anxiety, depression and anger. They had better coping skills and blood pressure normalized in the subjects with high blood pressure.

Transcendental meditation is a technique that allows your mind to settle inward and experience silence, creativity and intelligence within a state of restful alertness. If you're stressed and running out of solutions to cure your symptoms of stress, take a transcendental meditation class and improve your peace of mind. For more information, check out TM.org