1Associate Professor of Physiology, HIMSR, Delhi
2Professor of Physiology, Saraswati Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
3M.B.B.S. Student, Saraswati Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
*Correspondence author: Dr. M Shobitha, Associate Professor of Physiology, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, New Delhi-110062. E-mail: drshobitha@gmail.com
Online published on 1 October, 2015.
Meditation is described as a family of self-regulation practices that focus on training attention and awareness in order to foster general mental well-being. 1 Dynamic meditation is an awareness based meditation 2, 3
1. To evaluate the effect of dynamic meditation for 15 days on electroencephalographic wave patterns of healthy subjects.
2. To evaluate the effect of dynamic meditation for 15 days on blood pressure, heart rate and respiratory rate.
Electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram, blood pressure (BP) and respiratory rate were recorded before and after the practice of dynamic meditation for 15 days in 45 healthy subjects
After 15 days of sessions in dynamic meditation the subjects showed slow wave electroencephalographic patterns of high voltage theta and high voltage alpha waves. Resting heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate were reduced significantly (table1).
Dynamic meditation is beneficial in improving the cardiorespiratory functions and produces high voltage slow wave electroencephalographic patterns indicating mind relaxation irrespective of gender.
Dynamic meditation, electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram
