Transcendental Meditation helps young college students cope
Alternative Treatments | admin | November 18, 2009 at 10:07 pmA new study shows that college students who are stressed can benefit from Transcendental Meditation that also lowered blood pressure among study participants. High blood pressure begins during younger years. College students at risk for high blood pressure were studied and compared to a control group.
After three months, compared to a control group of college students placed on a wait list, students who practiced Transcendental Meditation lowered both their systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings by 6.3 points and 4.0 points respectively.
College student stressors include financial and academic achievement concerns, and uncertaintly about the future. The new study showed that after three months, Transcendental Meditation helped students cope, in turn lowering blood pressure that could lead to poor heart health as adults.
Sanford Nidich, EdD, lead author and senior researcher at the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi University of Management explains, “Previous research has shown that psychological distress such as anxiety, depression, and anger contribute to the development of hypertension in young adults. Meditation was able to lower blood pressure when comparing two groups of college students.
Improving mental and physical health through an inexpensive and easily learned intervention such as Transcendental Meditation was shown to improve mental health.
According to information from the study, published in the American Journal of Hypertension, antidepressant use has doubled in the last decade among college students, and depression rates have risen fifty percent. Meditation lowered stress levels, and reduced blood pressure, showing long-term health benefits.
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This really is an awesome post. Transcendental Meditation – never heard of this thing before. came to know a lot about it from this post. Thanks for the info.
thank you Aswani! I am happy that you came to know this new health topic through my post! spread this info to your young friends!
As a long time practitioner of meditation, it’s really nice to see western medicine taking notice of the real physical changes that meditation can bring.