A strong link has also been established between the practice of TM and longevity. Meditation has been shown to lower core body temperature. Most of the people who get on meditation do so because of its beneficial effects on stress.
Stress refers to any or all the various pressures experienced in life.
These can stem from work, family, illness, or environment and can contribute to such conditions as anxiety, hypertension, and heart disease. How an individual sees things and how he or she handles them makes a big difference in terms of how much stress he or she experiences. Research has shown that hormones and other biochemical compounds in the blood indicative of stress tend to decrease during TM practice. These changes also stabilize over time, so that a person is actually less stressed biochemically during daily activity. This reduction of stress translates directly into a reduction of anxiety and tension.