Studies indicate that the Transcendental Meditation practice modulates
neurophysiologic, neuroendocrine, and physiologic mechanisms associated with stress. For
example, controlled studies have reported reduced sympathetic nervous system and
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis activation along with more coherent
neurophysiologic functioning with the Transcendental Meditation program [49••,50]. This
more coherent and integrated functioning of the nervous system may facilitate adaptive