MEDITATION AND BIOFEEDBACK

Prabhakar Ballapalle^1* and Ajeet Mall²

¹Technical Leader, LSI Research, Bangalore, India

²Senior Engineer, Analog Devices, Bangalore, India

With the advancement of science especially in the field of Mind-body medicine, currently there is growing openness towards scientific study of spirituality and its effect on health. Biofeedback is becoming popular as alternative medicine and many biofeedback products have come into the market. With the increasingly precise and powerful instruments, studies from several disciplines have now provided corroboration that meditation is not a merely placebo, that it provides substantial and long term health, positive feelings of well being and peak performance. In contrast to the biofeedback that gives awareness to the person using electronic instruments to improve the health, meditation is primarily for the spiritual relization and better health is an immediate side effect. This paper presents a comparitive study of both methods in terms of safety and cost and brings out the superiority of mantra meditation as a most effective, safe and recommended process for all the humanity in this age.