Stress management techniques like transcendental meditation, mindfulness, exercise, prayer, and gratitude reflection can collectively lower heart rate and cholesterol levels, but must be personally suitable.

“In terms of what you bring up, oh, transcendental meditation, mindfulness, exercise, prayer, sort of reflecting on gratitude, all that sort of thing. Collectively they work on the average, they work in terms of, they can lower heart rate and cholesterol levels and have all sorts of good outcomes, but they compromise us.”