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This study -coming out of India- suggests that meditation practiced twice a day in healthy people leads to measurably better sleep. They engaged in 23 minutes of meditation twice a day.
Patra S, Telles S.
Indian Council of Medical Research Center for Advanced Research in Yoga and Neurophysiology, SVYASA, Bangalore, India.
BACKGROUND: Cyclic meditation (CM) is a technique that combines yoga postures interspersed with supine rest. This combination is based on ancient texts and is considered easier for beginners to practice.
MATERIAL/METHODS: Whole-night polysomnographic measures and the self-rating of sleep were studied on the night following a day in which 30 male participants practiced CM twice (ca. 23 minutes each time). This was compared with another night when they had had two sessions of supine rest (SR) of equal duration on the preceding day. The sessions were one day apart and the order of the sessions was randomized. Recordings were from the F4, C4, and O2 electrode sites referenced to linked earlobes and bipolar electroculography and electromyography sites.
CONCLUSIONS: Practicing cyclic meditation twice a day appeared to improve the objective and subjective quality of sleep on the following night.
It's great that they're measuring this scientifically. I think ME/CFS patients may have a barrier to effective meditation; ie it may take them longer to achieve these results but Dr. Friedman and Ashok Gupta both believe that meditation - if done consistently - does improve sleep in ME/CFS. I've got to get back to meditating regularly.
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This study -coming out of India- suggests that meditation practiced twice a day in healthy people leads to measurably better sleep. They engaged in 23 minutes of meditation twice a day.
Patra S, Telles S.
Indian Council of Medical Research Center for Advanced Research in Yoga and Neurophysiology, SVYASA, Bangalore, India.
BACKGROUND: Cyclic meditation (CM) is a technique that combines yoga postures interspersed with supine rest. This combination is based on ancient texts and is considered easier for beginners to practice.
MATERIAL/METHODS: Whole-night polysomnographic measures and the self-rating of sleep were studied on the night following a day in which 30 male participants practiced CM twice (ca. 23 minutes each time). This was compared with another night when they had had two sessions of supine rest (SR) of equal duration on the preceding day. The sessions were one day apart and the order of the sessions was randomized. Recordings were from the F4, C4, and O2 electrode sites referenced to linked earlobes and bipolar electroculography and electromyography sites.
CONCLUSIONS: Practicing cyclic meditation twice a day appeared to improve the objective and subjective quality of sleep on the following night.
It's great that they're measuring this scientifically. I think ME/CFS patients may have a barrier to effective meditation; ie it may take them longer to achieve these results but Dr. Friedman and Ashok Gupta both believe that meditation - if done consistently - does improve sleep in ME/CFS. I've got to get back to meditating regularly.
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