(Please note: This was not a scientific study, and results can vary from person to person.)

Here is how a daily dose of meditation helped a few of your fellow New York Today readers:

A boost of energy

Michael Arcati, 41, a lawyer from Forest Hills, Queens, said he’s usually relaxed over the weekend, but by 10 a.m. on Monday, he feels a “tidal wave of short-fused projects and family responsibilities.” He, like other participants, was skeptical about the benefits of meditation. Two days into the project, he said, he noticed that his frequent stress headaches had disappeared and he no longer needed his afternoon power nap. At the end of the week, he told us, meditation was a “great stress reliever” and he got better with practice.

Anxiety control

Erin A. Paul, 30, a musician from the Bronx, said she often has trouble concentrating. Last Thursday, she was playing the French horn at a concert when, she said, she experienced a panic attack. But her meditation practice had helped her through it, she said. “I was able to keep breathing in a methodical way, and focus my mind on the task at hand rather than allowing myself to go down the path of ‘what’s going to happen next? Am I going to barf during this concert and ruin it?’” She said she plans to continue meditating three to four times per week.

Stress relief

Erilia Wu, 29, is a public health researcher who moved to Sunnyside, Queens, from China in 2014. Like many of our participants, she said she is under a lot of pressure at her job. Before the meditation project began, she had ended a two-year relationship and was “devastated,” she said. But during a meditation session on Tuesday, when thoughts of her ex began to surface, she was able to stop and refocus. “It was 15 minutes of calmness that I could use more often.” She plans to fit small meditation sessions into her schedule.

Help managing pain

A few days before she started meditating, Lola Guerrero, 25, a choreographer and theater director living in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, had hip surgery. The meditation sessions, she said, helped her “maintain a calm relationship” with how she felt physically. She spent most of the week in bed, she said. Practicing meditation allowed her to transform her situation “into something constructive and eye-opening.”