Midlife’s A Trip

Meditation Can Lower Blood Pressure

Posted on 17. Mar, 2008 by Karen in Family and Friends

I am the daughter of a woman who did Transcendental Meditation in the early 60’s.  TM is what it was called.  My brother, sister and I—we just called it weird.

Mom would carve out her meditation time each day and we were warned not to disturb her.  While she meditated, there was a lot of eye-rolling going on in the room where we sat whispering about this latest of our mother’s eccentricities.  I don’t think we ever understood what meditation did for her.

Now Mom is 88 years old.  Although she has severe dementia, she’s in good physical health otherwise.  Did her years of doing TM have some positive impact on her health?  Who knows but be inspired by this recent article about studies that show meditation can lower blood pressure .

As for me, I’ve become my mother’s daughter.  I just meditated before I sat down to write this post.  I believe that there are health benefits from meditation and my blood pressure is textbook normal.  And in keeping with family tradition—yes my son thinks I weird because I meditate.  But he’ll get it one day.

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