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Benefits of Meditation - Cited Sources

Meditation may slow aging. A study found that people who had been meditating for more than five years were physiologically 12 to 15 years younger than non-meditators.
International Journal of Neuroscience, 1982

Meditators over 6-9 months showed a marked decrease in the thickness of their artery walls, while non-meditators actually showed an increase. This change translates to about an 11% decrease in the risk of heart attack and an 8% to 15% decrease in the risk of stroke.
Stroke Journal, reported in Psychology Today, 2001

For William W. George, retiring chairman and CEO, Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, meditation fits the bill. He meditates at home for 20 minutes twice a day, typically before and after work. "It helps sort things out, gets me prepared, and relieves a lot of the stress.... Quite frankly, many of my most creative thoughts have come out of meditation."
Tim Steven, Industry Week, November 2000

Twenty out of twenty-two anxiety-prone people showed a 60% improvement in anxiety levels following an eight week course in meditation. University of Massachusetts

"I'm in business," he says, "and I need results." So he recently turned to a mat and 60 minutes of silence. "It's amazing," he says of his new meditation practice. "I'm able to sort through work challenges in this state of calm much faster than trying to fight through it. And I make fewer mistakes." says Dave Jakubowski, vice-president of business development for Internet service provider United Online Inc.
BusinessWeek, 2003

The three-month study of managers and employees who regularly practiced meditation showed that meditation practitioners displayed more relaxed physiological functioning, greater reduction in anxiety, and reduced tension on the job, when compared to control subjects with similar job positions in the same companies.
Anxiety, Stress & Coping International Journal, 1993