Three case reports of the metabolic and electroencephalographic changes during advanced Buddhist meditation techniques.
Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.) 1990 H Benson, M S Malhotra, R F Goldman et al.
To examine the extent to which advanced meditative practices might alter body metabolism and the electroencephalogram (EEG), we investigated three Tibetan Buddhist monks living in the Rumtek monastery in Sikkim, India. In a study carried out in February 1988, we found that during the practice of several different meditative practices, resting metabolism (VO2) could be both raised (up to 61%)...