Reduce stress

Cortisol levels can be lowered by mindfulness meditation, which reduces stress. In a 2013 review, scientists looked at more than 200 studies on mindfulness meditation in healthy individuals and discovered it to be a powerful stress-reduction technique. During meditation, repeating a mantra—such as a word or a phrase—may also be calming. Additionally, by focusing on your mantra, you can divert your attention from troublesome ideas.

According to David Foley, the founder of Unify Cosmos, a meditation facility in Oklahoma, transcendental meditation has a similar effect in which you silently repeat a word or sound to keep yourself concentrated and as a result, you are able to reach a state of total calm and stability. For instance, a 2019 study found that teachers and support workers who practiced transcendental meditation experienced less psychological distress.

To gauge participants' degrees of burnout, despair, and stress before and after the program, researchers employed stress scales. Participants who practiced meditation twice daily for 15 to 20 minutes over the period of four months after receiving a seven-step transcendental meditation course reported lower levels of stress and burnout than they had before learning the techniques.