Title
Chinese-Chi And Kundalini Yoga Meditations Effects On The Autonomic Nervous System: Comparative Study
Abstract
Cardiac disease is one of the major causes for death all over the world. Heart rate variability (HRV) is a significant parameter that used in assessing Autonomous Nervous System (ANS) activity. Generally, the 2D Poincare' plot and 3D Poincare plot of the HRV signals reflect the effect of different external stimuli on the ANS. Meditation is one of such external stimulus, which has different techniques with different types of effects on the ANS. Chinese Chi-meditation and Kundalini yoga are two different effective meditation techniques. The current work is interested with the analysis of the HRV signals under the effect of these two based on meditation techniques. The 2D and 3D Poincare' plots are generally plotted by fitting respectively an ellipse/ellipsoid to the dense region of the constructed Poincare' plot of HRV signals. However, the 2D and 3D Poincare plots sometimes fail to describe the proper behaviour of the system. Thus in this study, a three-dimensional frequency-delay plot is proposed to properly distinguish these two famous meditation techniques by analyzing their effects on ANS. This proposed 3D frequency-delay plot is applied on HRV signals of eight persons practicing same Chi-meditation and four other persons practising same Kundalini yoga. To substantiate the result for larger sample of data, statistical Student t-test is applied, which shows a satisfactory result in this context. The experimental results established that the Chi-meditation has large impact on the HRV compared to the Kundalini yoga.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.9781/ijimai.2016.3713
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
2D and 3D Poincare Plot, 3D Frequency Delay Plot, Hypothesis Testing By Student t-Test
Autonomous nervous system,Autonomic nervous system,Heart rate variability,Computer science,Cognitive psychology,Meditation,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Poincaré plot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
7
1989-1660
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anilesh Dey100.68
D. K. Bhattacha200.34
D. N. Tibarewala36811.88
Nilanjan Dey452178.41
Amira S. Ashour5134.39
Dac-Nhuong Le6125.01
Evgeniya Gospodinova724.63
Mitko Gospodinov8165.70