HE 440 Study Guide - Electrical Resistance And Conductance, Cortisol, Transcendental Meditation
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Comfortable with for the exam: what is meditation, meditation is a mind to muscle relaxation technique that uses an object of focus to clear the mind thereby resulting in beneficial physiological and psychological changes, the maharishi developed a large, worldwide, and highly effective organization to teach transcendental meditation to a population of people experiencing more and more stress and recognizing the need for more and more of an escape, transcendental meditation: a relaxation involving the use of a sanskrit word as the object of focus, mandala: a geometric figure used as the object of focus during meditation, nadam: imagined sounds as the object of focus during meditation, mantra: a word used as the object of focus during meditation, koans: unanswerable, illogical riddles used as the object of focus during meditation, pranayama: a hindu practice that involves breathing as the object of focus during meditation, anapanasati: a zen practice that involves counting breaths as the object of focus during meditation.
