Effect of Singing Bowl Meditation on Cardiac Health

Abstract

newlineSound healing instruments have been utilized for centuries in religious ceremonies, festival celebrations, social gatherings, and meditation practices by a wide variety of cultures across the world. Sound waves have been shown to have a positive influence on health in both the body and the mind. While several studies have shown the positive effects of meditation on people, relatively few have looked into the significant impacts of singing bowls. The purpose of this research is to see if the vibrations from a Himalayan singing bowl may induce a more profound and rapid state of relaxation than would be possible when lying still. In order to automatically distinguish the meditative state from the baseline condition using Heart Rate Variability (HRV) data, this research proposes two machine learning (ML) models. To pick suitable inputs for the ML models a statistics-based t-test and a top 10 newlineranking approach was applied. In the statistics-based t-test method, the HRV parameters were subjected to choose appropriate input for the ML model. In this case study there are two models which were considered as the most effective models based on their accuracy, that are MLP 31-13-2 and RBF 31-17-2 model having a training accuracy of 83.75% and 68.75% respectively. In the second case study, top10 ranking-based approach was applied to the HRV parameters and as a result of which RBF 10-19-2 and MLP 10-5-2 were the most effective models, boasting a training accuracy of 72.50% and 92.5% respectively.