Meditation During Lockdown
Just breathe: How meditation is helping the world keep calm and carry on through lockdown
“Meditation can decrease respiratory rate, decreases heart rate, decreases blood pressure, and decreases muscle tension,” said former nurse Angela Landers, director of Glasgow Transcendental Meditation.
“Having taught Transcendental Meditation for 20 years, I find that people no longer need to be convinced of meditation’s practical benefits. Meditation is now more mainstream. It is being taught in schools and businesses and prescribed by doctors as well as being popularised by lots of celebrities.”