International Journal of Yoga
May 1, 2023
Shrivastava Anurag, B. K. Singh, Dwivedi Krishna et al.
Background: Heart–brain synchronization is the integration of mind, body, and spirit. It occurs when the electrical activity of the heart and brain is synchronized. In recent years, there has been mounting curiosity to investigate the effects of meditation on heart–brain synchronization with respect to mental and emotional health and well-being. The current investigation aims to explore the...
International Journal of Yoga
2022
Dwivedi Krishna, Krishna Prasanna, Basavaraj Angadi et al.
Heartfulness meditation (HM) has been shown to have positive impacts on cognition and well-being, which makes it important to look into the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the phenomenon. A cross-sectional study was conducted on HM meditators and nonmeditators to assess frontal electrical activities of the brain and self-reported anxiety and mindfulness. The present study employed a...
Clinical EEG and Neuroscience
October 1, 2015
Shirley Telles, Singh Deepeshwar, Kalkuni Visweswaraiah Naveen et al.
The auditory sensory pathway has been studied in meditators, using midlatency and short latency auditory evoked potentials. The present study evaluated long latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEPs) during meditation. Sixty male participants, aged between 18 and 31 years (group mean ± SD, 20.5 ± 3.8 years), were assessed in 4 mental states based on descriptions in the traditional texts. They...
2014
Shirley Telles, Nilkamal Singh, Kv Naveen et al.
Objectives: Meditation is described in traditional yoga texts as three stages, which follow each other in sequence: (i) Focused attention (FA), (ii) Focused attention on the object of meditation (MF), and (iii) Meditation with one-pointed focused attention without effort (ME). When not in meditation the mind is considered to be in a state of normal consciousness characterized by random thinking...