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The body’s reaction to a threat is a result of the mind’s interpretation of the situation. Regular practice of Transcendental Meditation balances the physiology so you regard obstacles as less threatening. The deep level of rest attained during the practice strengthens the physiology so that you are also better able to meet life’s challenges.

TM brings about a profound reduction of stress hormones. The effects of epinephrine and other stress related hormones diminish with meditation because the heart rate and breath rate slow down. Brain waves also synchronize. This causes muscles to relax so that mind/ body coordination reduces stressful responses in situations that would otherwise provoke anxiety. TM may prevent illness and decelerate the aging process because the practice reduces production of stress hormones, which could otherwise become free radicals and lead to cardiovascular disease. Research published in the American Journal of Managed Care demonstrates this prevention aspect of TM.37 The results of stress can be felt externally when you perceive a situation as a threat, but you are usually unaware of the ensuing activity of free radicals. Free radicals destroy cells, which in turn accelerates aging, cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis, and exacerbates other conditions, such as diabetes. The less stress hormones you secrete the less free radicals are produced.

Dr. Robert Keith Wallace, author of The Physiology of Consciousness, describes how this non-material, mental technique promotes actual physiological benefits. For example, there is an inverse relationship between TM and stress hormone production. Dr. Wallace reports that the type A personality, characteristically a stressed professional easily provoked into outbursts of anger and aggression, shows modification in the physiological symptoms and in hormone production; the response pattern resembles that of psychologically healthier type B subjects.

“End organ sensitivity,” an adaptive response, refers to the way in which cell receptors respond to stress hormones and neurotransmitters. Dr. Wallace’s study demonstrates that meditators exhibit reduced end organ sensitivity of important cardiovascular receptors (B-adrenergic receptors), which enable them to adapt better to the excessive physiological effects of stress.

The best way to cope with stress is to go beyond the level of awareness that reacts to stress. Identification with these reactions causes stress, but when you are in charge, you do not identify with stressful reactions. You possess an internal awareness that is always calm and quiet, despite what is happening in daily life. Through direct experience with this source of peace, TM spontaneously allows you to be aware that you are more than the sensory experience of stress. Thus you do not become overwhelmed by it. You have thoughts, feelings, and experiences, but you are more than all of them. Your inner source is where these sensations originate. Not to be confused with denial of experience, this state of awareness simply does not allow stress to overshadow inner peace.

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