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4 Reasons to Start Practicing Transcendental Meditation — Simple and Effective

4 min readMar 8, 2025

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There are many benefits to practicing transcendental meditation.

It is a simple and effective style of meditation found in research to be quite good at reducing anxiety and helping individuals manage stress, lowering blood pressure, and providing other benefits.

Those who practice transcendental meditation may notice a reduction in tension and anxiety within minutes of beginning their practice.

Transcendental meditation can result in even more favorable benefits, such as increased resilience to stress, less general anxiety, and even better life satisfaction.

How to start practicing Transcendental Meditation

A single mantra is focused on and silently repeated throughout the meditation, in contrast to mindfulness-based meditations, which are concerned with clearing the mind of thoughts and gently bringing the attention back to the present moment when you detect that your mind has wandered.

This mantra might be different for each individual. Individuals who successfully finish training programs are typically issued mantras based on their…

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Bryan Dijkhuizen
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Written by Bryan Dijkhuizen

Writing about the life of a neurodivergent creative in a neurotypical world. — https://bryandijkh.substack.com/