High blood pressure (hypertension) causes serious health problems.
Here’s a scary list of conditions to which it contributes:
* heart attack,
* stroke,
* aneurysm,
* artery damage,
* dementia,
* kidney failure.
If these don’t look like appealing prospects, then keeping your blood pressure under control should be right up there on your list of priorities!

How to avoid high blood pressure?
When it comes to maintaining healthy blood pressure, the usual to-do list includes:
- eating healthily,
- exercising,
- keeping away from alcohol and tobacco,
- lowering stress levels.
While it’s hard enough to follow points 1-3, the trickiest question is how to combat stress in a way that would also have the desired effect of lowering your blood pressure.
Luckily, there is a method which is scientifically proven to both reduce stress and normalize blood pressure – the practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM).



Whom can Transcendental Meditation help?
Controlled trials show that TM leads to lower blood pressure in:
- people with hypertension [1] [2]
- people with heart disease [3] [4] [5]
- old and young [6] [7]
- under stress or at rest. [8]
Scientists think that TM is effective at lowering blood pressure precisely because it is documented to lower our sensitivity to stress.
In brief, TM makes our nervous system more resilient.
We can therefore avoid the damaging spikes in blood pressure that result from a typical fight or flight reaction to an antsy situation. Instead, we can keep our cool and simply smile!
Reduced blood pressure = longer life
Researchers have also been able to observe how the reduction in blood pressure resulting from practice of TM meditation translates into longer life.
In another study, TM was compared to other methods of stress reduction with regard to its effectiveness in lowering blood pressure.
The study found that stress management training, biofeedback, and relaxation-assisted biofeedback did not lead to any significant reductions in blood pressure. Transcendental Meditation, on the other hand, yielded statistically significant results. [2]
So, to keep your blood pressure in the healthy range, learn TM, and enjoy a long and healthy life!
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WATCH VIDEO: NBC news report on how doing Transcendental Meditation will help to normalize the blood pressure: