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Does mindfulness meditation shift the cardiac autonomic nervous system to a highly orderly operational state?

2011; Elsevier BV; Volume: 154; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.ijcard.2011.10.054

1874-1754

Caroline Peressutti, Juan Manuel Martín González, Juan Manuel García Manso,

Mental Health Research Topics

The relative impact of meditation on autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation of heart rate variability (HRV) is probably specific according to the technique and practice time. The purpose of the present study is to determine how different levels of expertise in mindfulness meditation, otherwise being characterized by an extraordinary (effortless) attentive state to the present moment, affect HRV. In a previous communication [ [1] Peressutti C. Martín-González J.M. García-Manso J.M. Mesa D. Heart rate dynamics in different levels of Zen meditation. Int J Cardiol. 2010; 145: 142-146 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (41) Google Scholar ] we found evidences that different practice time among Zen meditators reflect stage-specific patterns of cardiac variability related to attention regulation processes that are different in each stage. In the present work we analyzed the same data (here we also collected data from one Master of Vipassana meditation) using a robust methodology specially designed to investigate the time-scale and the dynamic properties of the signal.