Transcendental Meditation is undoubtedly good for your health. It makes good sense to think that the profound state of rest gained by the mind and body when practising Transcendental Meditation - deeper than sleep or hypnotic trance - will be good for your health. One of the commonest reported effects after learning is sleeping better and improved health. But don't take our word for it: hundreds of doctors in the UK both practise TM and recommend it to their patients, and they will have carefully examined the scientific evidence.
Transcendental Meditation: insomnia, anxiety, high blood pressure, angina, hardening of the arteries, abuse of alcohol, cigarettes and non-prescription drugs, migraine, ulcers, asthma. Many of these conditions are stress-related.
The benefits of Transcendental Meditation for health are not limited to the cure and prevention of particular medical conditions. By dissolving stress and tension TM enables you to unfold your full potential, enriching all aspects of your life. With regular practice TM helps to develop a state of perfect health:
Better sleep
More rewarding relationships
Greater harmony in marriage
Reduced abuse of alcohol and other drugs
Increased intelligence and creativity
Increased energy
Reversal of the damaging effects of ageing
Reversal or ageing
Perhaps the most interesting research is on the effect of Transcendental Meditation on ageing. Studies show that many of the changes that are associated with ageing are found to be decreasing in people who meditate. Researchers have discovered that the longer you have meditated, the lower your biological age (as measured by blood pressure, and visual and auditory performance) becomes compared with your chronological age. On average TM meditators have the biological age of a person 5 to 12 years younger. It is therefore not surprising that some researchers conclude that 'TM reverses ageing'.
Another study of people in their eighties showed a marked improvement rather than deterioration in their mental and physical health and well-being over a three year period of practising TM.
It appears that with TM people can enjoy a long and healthy life. As one doctor who practises TM says, "TM brings years to your life, and life to your years!"
