transcendental meditation

A recent study found that Transcendental Meditation (TM) helped college students decrease psychological distress and increase coping ability.

For a group of students at high risk for developing hypertension, these changes also were associated with decreases in blood pressure.

This could be good news for the many students experiencing academic, financial, and social pressures that can lead to psychological distress—especially in light of evidence that college-age people with even slightly elevated blood pressure are three times more likely to develop hypertension within 30 years.

There are quite a few different techniques for meditation. They include:

• Formal sitting in which your body is held immobile and your attention is controlled, such as in Zazen and Vipassana
• Expressive practices in which your body is let free and anything can happen, such as in Siddha Yoga, the Latihan, and Rajneesh
• The practice of going about your daily round of activities mindfully, such as in Mahamudra, and Gurdjieff's "self-remembering"

Other popular meditative techniques are

• Transcendental meditation,
• Zen meditation,