Meditation-Induced Coherence and Crucial Events

Abstract

In this paper we emphasize that 1/f noise has two different origins, one compatible with Laplace determinism and one determined by unpredictable crucial events. The dynamics of heartbeats, manifest as heart rate variability (HRV) time series, are determined by the joint action of these different memory sources with meditation turning the Laplace memory into a strongly coherent process while exerting an action on the crucial events favoring the transition from the condition of ideal 1/f noise to the Gaussian basin of attraction. This theoretical development affords a method of statistical analysis that establishes a quantitative approach to the evaluation of the stress reduction realized by the practice of Chi meditation and Kundalini Yoga.

Entropic Approach to the Detection of Crucial Events

“…However, the method of stripes depends only on the statistics of crucial events and it is independent of the anomalous intensity of the crucial events as well as of SFBM. All this is described by Figure 3, where the left panel refers to the time series of Equation (51) and the right panel to the time series of Equation (56). We see that the stripes kill the anomalous SFBM scaling, H = 0.7, which is larger than the AFBM scaling, η = 0.625.…”

“…In other words, the method of stripes makes the AFBM fluctuations equivalent to Poisson fluctuations. Finally, we detect the time distances τ i between two consecutive crossings of the origin for both the case (51) and (56). We evaluate the cross-correlation function…”

“…This is expected to help the readers to also get a better understanding of the method used to get the results of the left panel of Figure 2. In Figure 5 we show the fluctuation ξ(t) generated by Equation (56), which is the combination of crucial and non-crucial events adopted by us the generate the diffusional trajectory of Equation (54).…”

“…This is shown in detail in Figure 6. (56). The bottom illustrates the jumps z(t) done by the random walker to generate the trajectory x(t) of Equation (54).…”

Biophotons: low signal/noise ratio reveals crucial events

“…Moreover, in general healthy neurophysiological processes also generate the condition of ideal 1/f noise which is a marker of maximal resilience. Diseases [18] or difficult tasks [19] may force neurophysiological processes to significantly depart from this ideal condition while still remaining in the crucial regime of µ < 3.…”