Effect of Sahaja Yoga on Blood Glucose Level in Healthy Individual
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
Sahaja Yoga meditation based on Kundalini awakening and aims at achieving holistic health care for people. Aim is to evaluate the effect of Sahaja Yoga meditation on blood glucose level in healthy volunteers (n=100) and was compared with a group of normal healthy controls (n=100) who were not doing any meditation. The subjects were further subdivided into two groups, i.e. as Group A (in the age group of 20-35 years) and Group B (in the age group of 36-50 years) with equal participants in each group. Blood samples were taken before starting the sahaja yoga (baseline) and after 40 and 90 days. The Statistical Analysis was Mean and standard deviations were calculated for each group and results were statistically analyzed by Student’s t- test and Paired t-test. In results the Blood glucose level was found to be significantly reduced (p <0.001) after 40 days and even after 90 days. In conclusion the Results of the present study suggest that Sahaja Yoga is helpful in the maintenance of blood glucose in normal healthy subjects, work in disease conditions is in progress. Keywords: Blood glucose, Sahaj Yoga, Meditation.
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Samrta Gupta, Vijay Shanker, Harbans Lal, Swaran Soni
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