Increased Relaxation and Decreased Stress This 3-month study of managers and employees who regularly practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique in a Fortune 100 manufacturing company and a smaller distribution-sales company showed that Transcendental Meditation practitioners displayed more relaxed physiological functioning, a greater reduction in anxiety, and reduced tension on the job, when compared to control subjects with similar job positions in the same companies. A prospective study of the effects of the Transcendental Meditation program in two business settings, Anxiety, Stress and Coping: International Journal 6: 245–262, 1993.