Meditation calms the sympathetic nervous system, which is our fight or flight response. With practice, this calm feeling can be substituted for the fight or flight response, and become our natural state. The constant activation of the fight or flight response is what we call stress, and stress is a factor in disorders ranging from hypertension to fibromyalgia, as well as cancer, asthma, phobias and Alzheimer's.

Meditators have been found to be:

• more emotionally stable
• less anxious
• feel more in control of their environment
• better learners

Meditation may be taught in private sessions or as a class.