Brahma Kumaris Rajayoga’s open eyed ‘seed stage meditation’ was studied in 52 experienced meditators. The meditation consists of different stages: concentration on the feeling of peace, realization of being a soul and communion of the individual soul with the Supreme Soul. Brain electric source localization in the frequency domain was used on multichannel EEG recordings to establish activation differences between meditation and open eyed, task-free resting. Meditation showed reduced activity in delta and increased activity in low alpha frequencies. The affected brain areas comprised the following networks during meditation: the central executive network, the mirroring network and both the task-positive and the task-negative network. The altered activations of these networks and other affected brain areas reflect the main cognitive-affective and behavioral specifics of seed stage meditation: attention modulation, self-related processing, experiencing the soul as a point of light between the eyes, endowing the soul with the properties (peacefulness) of the Supreme Soul. Future studies need to differentiate between the stages of the meditation.
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