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Meditation may reduce risk of dying from heart attack, strokes

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Transcendental Meditation may help black people with heart disease avoid an early death from heart attack or stroke, new research shows. "It appears that Transcendental Meditation is a technique that turns on the body's own pharmacy -- to repair and maintain itself," study author Dr. Robert Schneider, director of the Institute for Natural Medicine and Prevention in Fairfield, Iowa and dean of Maharishi College of Perfect Health, said in a press release. In Transcendental Meditation, people use a mantra -- a word, sound or phrase that's repeated silently -- to prevent distracting thoughts from reaching the mind in order to achieve a state of relaxed awareness, according to the government's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Vitamin D cuts heart risk in African-Americans Black, white life expectancy gap closing in The new study involved 201 black men and women who already had heart disease.

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Study of 201 black men and women with heart disease found protective benefits from Transcendental Meditation

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Meditation may reduce risk of dying from heart attack, strokes

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