Chanting Om as a mantra can be a very powerful meditation technique. Meditation helps to ease chronic pain, anxiety, stress, improve heart health, boost mood and immunity, and resolve pregnancy problems. Any condition that's caused or worsened by stress can be alleviated through meditation. The relaxation response helps decrease metabolism, lowers blood pressure, and improves heart rate, breathing, and brain waves. Tension and tightness seep from muscles as the body receives a quiet message to relax. There's scientific evidence showing how meditation works. In people who are meditating, brain scans called MRI have shown an increase in activity in areas that control metabolism and heart rate. Other studies on Buddhist monks have shown that meditation produces long-lasting changes in the brain activity in areas involved in attention, working memory, learning, and conscious perception. So drop everything and meditate to become more healthy and happy.