Researching Meditation » physiological arousal http://www.researchingmeditation.org Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:32:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Graph: Skin temperature of mental silence meditators vs generic meditators http://www.researchingmeditation.org/blog/graph-skin-temperature-of-mental-silence-meditators-vs-generic-meditators.html http://www.researchingmeditation.org/blog/graph-skin-temperature-of-mental-silence-meditators-vs-generic-meditators.html#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:00:21 +0000 Dr Ramesh Manocha http://www.researchingmeditation.org/?p=594 Skin Temp over time - Sahaja yoga meditation verses generic meditation

The graph displays a key difference between mental silence based meditation and other types of meditation.

Previous definitions of meditation have not differentiated between meditation and relaxation. A key feature of relaxation is that skin temperature increases with the reduced physiological arousal.

This graph shows data from a heuristic physiological study where mental silence meditators manifested reductions in skin temperature during meditation thereby contradicting the “reduced physiological arousal” conceptualisation of meditation.

Dr Ramesh Manocha

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