The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

Remarkably, the biometric results demonstrated that at the end of the study, the patients in the meditation group were able to exercise on the treadmill 12 percent harder and 15 percent longer before experiencing chest pain. Even more interesting, during the treadmill test, the meditation group experienced an 18 percent delay in the onset of EKG changes that indicated stress on the heart,