Meditate: it's more than relaxation

Everyone knows meditation helps tame stress, but did you know it also decreases blood pressure and plaque buildup in arteries?

Meditation actually prevents heart attacks, strokes and premature death in people with heart problems.

Recent studies showed that of 201 African Americans with cardiovascular disease, those who learned to meditate using the Transcendental Meditation technique were 47% less likely than nonmeditators to have a heart attack or stroke, or to die of any cause.

Another example of an action you can take that makes your life better. Better than taking yet another pill. Ommmmh

Excerpt from a 2/10 Readers' Digest article on Health