Those who practice transcendental meditation may experience a decrease in stress and anxiety within minutes.
It’s definitely worth taking a few minutes to learn more.
What Is Transcendental Meditation?
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How Does It Work?
For this practice, better to practice 15 to 20 minutes twice a day.
That’s the basic practice, which is quite simple.
Even just a few minutes of meditation can be beneficial to calm your mind.
How It Compares
There are many forms of mediation.
There is even more evidence showing strong benefits with this technique.
MBSR was found to be more beneficial by the body of studies examined, however.
This may make transcendental meditation a more attractive and accessible option for many people.
This evidence is strong enough that the American Heart Association recommends that TM be considered in clinical practice.
After several months in the program, the teens scored higher on resilience and lower on anxiety.
Those who spent more time in this kind of meditation experienced greater decreases in anxiety.
Overall, this group said that they experienced better sleep, greater happiness, and more self-confidence as well.
(This can be very helpful, but also somewhat costly.)
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