VITAL ASPECT OF RESPIRATION AND CHANGE IN BRAIN SIGNAL DURING MEDITATION USING EEG AND MACHINE LEARNING

Practicing breathing exercises, such as Kriya Yoga, can enhance antioxidant status, reduce free radicals, and boost the immune system, making individuals less vulnerable to disease. Changes in EEG and respiration signals after breathing exercises indicate qualitative improvements in life. This research evaluates EEG and breathing data from inexperienced meditators, former yoga practitioners, and monks after a specific week of meditation. Using spectral analysis, phase analysis, and classification, the study assesses whether breathing feature vectors and EEG data serve as reliable objective markers of meditation skill, employing Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, and Random Forest classifiers to examine mindfulness meditation as a mental exercise for sustaining relaxation.

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Abstract

Practicing breathing can enhance an individual's antioxidant status in addition to helping them cope with life's pressures. An increase in antioxidant status is useful in reducing many free radicals that are formed when the food is processed by our body or when we are constantly around things like pollution, smoke, etc. Due to the less oxidation states in the body, the practitioner gets a boost in the immune system with less vulnerability to disease causing microbes [2]. A change of EEG and respiration signals that are rewarded after breathing exercises (e.g. Kriya Yoga), show the qualitative change in human life. After a specific week of meditation, EEG and breathing data were gathered and evaluated on a number of inexperienced mediators, former yoga practitioners, and monks. Spectral analysis, phase analysis, and classification were used to assess the objective marker for meditation [6]. In order to determine if breathing feature vectors and EEG data are reliable objective markers of meditation skill, this research article will incorporate methods employed in machine learning, comprising Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines(SVM), and Random Forest classifiers. This study examines the mindfulness meditation measure (mm), a mental exercise that allows one to sustain a state of relaxation.