Transcendental Meditation (TM)

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This paper discusses transcendental meditation and its ability to relieve symptoms of stress. The author explains in scientific (chemical) terms what causes the human body to feel stress. Also detailed in terms of medicine and science are the effects of meditation on a body suffering from stress.

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"For the majority of people, stress is defined in terms of factors: child-rearing, pressure on the job, marital discord, etc. It's easy to confuse "stressors" with actual stress. So what, exactly, is stress? In short, stress is any physical or emotional condition that disrupts the body's homeostasis. The human body has many ways of regulating homeostasis in response to specific stressors. For instance, alterations in body temperatures trigger responses designed to either raise or lower the temperature back to normal. When it comes to the everyday stress of simply living, however, the body develops a general response known as general adaptation syndrome (GAS), also referred to simply as stress response. This syndrome was first described by Hans Selye and is divided into three distinct phases: the alarm phase, the resistance phase, and the exhaustion phase."

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