Five years ago Donald McBride worked 70 hours a week and never saw his wife and baby. One day he was driving home from work when he suffered a panic attack with heart flutters and severe pains across his chest and arms.

Following a feature on work-related stress in The Journal newspaper’s Northern Business, journalist Peter Jackson examined the growing popularity of Transcendental Meditation as a business tool for stress relief. To test its effectiveness he volunteered for TM training and a series of three follow-up reports over three months. Report One – Just after learning I’m