PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECT OF MEDITATION: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
Abstract
Meditation is deep breathing, deep relaxation, and deep concentration. During meditation a wakeful state accompanied by decreased metabolism. Decreased breathing pattern, decreased heart rate, and decreased blood pressure. Decrease in the level of oxygen utilization and carbon dioxide elimination by muscles. During meditation the metabolic changes arise from a natural reduction in metabolic activity at the cellular level, not from a forced reduction of breathing. In the state of meditation, there was a 33% reduction in the amount of lactic acid in the blood in which the person feels physically and mentally light. Lactic acid increases in the blood as a result of chemical reactions taking place in the muscles of the body. Having more lactic acid in the blood increases the chances of blood acidosis.
Key-words: meditation, blood acidosis, hypo metabolism, galvanic skin resistance
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