More on the benefits of meditation

I got this off of Nancy O'Hara's web page: ]

Clinical, on-the-job studies show that meditation:

**Lessens job worry, tension and the desire to change jobs
**Increases efficiency, concentration, productivity, and job satisfaction
**Decreases absentee rates
**Improves interpersonal skills
**Lowers blood pressure and improves overall health
**Reduces anxiety, insomnia and fatigue

In the three years after Montgomery Chemical in Detroit instituted a meditation program, absenteeism fell by 85 percent, injuries declined 70 percent, sick days fell by 76 percent and profits soared 520 percent.

After employees at Tower Companies in Maryland began meditating, their hospital admissions and physician visits dropped so much that the firm's insurer reduced the company's premium by 5 percent and agreed to pay 80 percent of the meditation course costs.