Study claims transcendental meditation may help prevent heart failure

A new study out of Maharishi International University claims that Transcendental Meditation, the practice of silently chanting a mantra while meditating, may help protect practitioners from heart failure. The benefit, the study claims, revolved around the prevention of an abnormal heart enlargement called left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), which can itself eventually cause heart failure and death in sufferers. Transcendental meditation …