meditation: effect on heart

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KAVERI CHAUHAN


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MEDITATION WHAT IT IS!!!

y In simple terms, meditation is a mind-cleansing

or emptying process. It is focused concentrationand increased awareness of ones being.

y Meditation means 'a cessation of the thoughtprocess' . It describes a state of consciousness,

when the mind is free of scattered thoughts andvarious patterns . The observer (one who is doingmeditation) realizes that all the activity of themind is reduced to one.


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MEDITATION.

y Normal Mind-----------------

y Concentrating Mind---------

y Meditation-----------

MIND

FAMILY

MONEY

FOOD

HOBBIES

MIND

DISTRACTION

CONCENTRATION

DISTRACTION

MIND OBJECT OFMEDITATION


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TYPES OF MEDITATIONy Exclusive or RestrictiveMeditation.

y Mental Repetitionsy Visual Concentration

y Physical Repetition

y Tactile Repetition

y Inclusive or opennessMeditation...

y Observance with emotionaldetachment

y Mindfulness meditation

Concentration AwarenessInnerPease


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BENEFITS OF MEDITATIONy Helps self transformation and self observation.

y Takes you through the common spot shared by your mindand body.

y Removes impurities of your mind

y Enables concentration on interrelations between yourmind and body

y Helps understand the mental process

y Helps you to go deep within your self and discover yourselfy Helps you heal your sufferings


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EFFECT ON CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

y HEART RATE: It usually slower down at the time ofmeditation. Studies shows an average decline of 7

beats or more per minutes.y BLOOD FLOW:Studies shows that meditators

showed a significantly greater increase in digital bloodvolume during meditation than rest.

y BLOODPRESSURE AN

DHYPERTENSI

ON:There isstrong evidence that meditation helps lower blood

pressure in people who are normal or moderatelyhypertensive.


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STUDIES ON HEART RATEy Bagga and Gandhi (1983) found an average decline as

high as fifteen beats per minute among some of theirsubjects.

y Fischer (1971) has found that SAMADHI sometimestriggers ecstatic which shows wide variability.

y Bono (1984) found that the reduction of heart rateduring TM was greater than the reduction resulting

from sitting quietly with eyes closed.y Mark McCabe( 2008) reported heart rate variability

during different meditation techniques.


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STUDIES ON BLOOD FLOWy Delmonte (1984) tested fifty-two subjects and found

that meditators showed a significantly greater increase

in blood volume during meditation than rest.y Jevning and Wilson (1978) reported that

transcendental meditation increased cardiac outputamong twenty-seven subjects by an average of 16%.

y Wallace and

Benson (1972) found an increase inforearm blood flow of 32% for their transcendental

meditation subjects.


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STUDIES ON BLOOD PRESSURE

y Hafner (1982) Twenty-one hypertension patients whohad been randomly assigned to eight one-hour sessions ofeither meditation training, meditation plus biofeedback-aided relaxation, or a nontreatment control group werestudied. Statistically significant falls in systolic anddiastolic blood pressure occurred after both trainingprograms.

y Dr. David Haaga (2009) found decrease in blood pressureof 298 students after three months of practice than thoseare not regular after the camp.


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REFERENCES..

yJensine Andresen, Robert K. C. (2002),CognitiveModels and Spiritual Maps, Published by Imprint

Academic, U.S.A.y Brian Luke, (2006) Managing stress: principles and

strategies for health and wellbeing, Published by Jonesand Bartllet publishers.

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Bagga and Gandhi A.. (1983)A Comparative study ofthe effect of Transcendental Meditation onCardiovascular System, Indian Heart


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