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STUDY THE EFFECT OF and#256;Nand#256;Pand#256;NASATI MEDITATION TECHNIQUE THROUGH ELECTROPHOTONIC IMAGING PARAMETERS

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Title STUDY THE EFFECT OF and#256;Nand#256;Pand#256;NASATI MEDITATION TECHNIQUE THROUGH ELECTROPHOTONIC IMAGING PARAMETERS
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Contributor ITAGI RAVI KUMAR and SRINIVASAN T.M.
 
Subject ELECTROPHOTONIC IMAGING PARAMETERS
Meditation
Technique
Yoga
 
Description There are many types of meditation techniques, designed to bring relaxation, altered
newlineconciousness or insight . Most of the meditation practices have religious or cultic origins
newlinebut there are also non-cultic forms developed for therapeutic or experiential purposes.
newlineÄnäpänasati meditation is one of the techniques, practiced in the initial part of Vipaçyanä
newlinein Theraväda School of Buddhism. In this method, practitioners focus their entire attention
newlineon the incoming and outgoing breath.Objectives of current study is: a) to measure changes in the different parameters of
newlineElectrophotonic Imaging (EPI) in and#256;nand#257;pand#257;nasati Meditators; b) to observe cumulative effect
newlinein short-term and long-term meditators; c) to find differences between long-term and naive
newlinepractitioners in older adults; and d) explore psychological well-being and overall health
newlinestatus through Electrophotonic Imaging.There were four different studies on and#256;nand#257;pand#257;nasati meditation. To carry out first
newlineinterventional study, 51 subjects comprising 32 males and 19 females of age 18 years and
newlineabove (mean age 45.64±14.43) were recruited. To execute second cross sectional study,
newline432 subjects (264 male and 168 females with mean age 34.36 ±6.83) were recruited from
newlinetwo meditation centers. The third study consists of 309 subjects: 199 long-term (older
newlineadults, age45 to 70 years) and 110 naive meditators. Total 266 subjects were part of
newlineanalysis after excluding 43 outliers. The criteria to exclude these subjects based on health
newlineparameters, image quality of electrophotonic imaging. 105 males (mean age 56.10±7.26
newlineyears) and 69 females (mean age 54.38±5.91 years) in LTM and 53 males (mean age
newline54.21±6.94 years) and 39 females (mean age 54±5.97 years) in NM group, constituted the
newlinestudy population. In the fourth study, a total of 88 subjects were included in the analysis,
newlineafter excluding outliers. There were 43 meditators (male and female, mean age 32.64±7.09
newlineyears) and 45 non-meditators (mean age 30.31±6.45 years) in the study.
newline
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Date 2018-10-12T08:53:19Z
2018-10-12T08:53:19Z
PhD/Cat2/06/Jan12
2016
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Type Ph.D.
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10603/218470
 
Language English
 
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Rights university
 
Format xvii, 169p.
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Publisher Bangalore
Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Sansthana
Department of Yoga and Life Sciences
 
Source University