Pranayama CHANGES IN PERCEPTION FOLLOWING YOGA PRACTICE

Pranayama: ; Pranayama; CHANGES IN PERCEPTION FOLLOWING YOGA PRACTICE. By Manoj Dash,BHMS,DYT,Ph.D. 1 comments. Perception is sensation with added complexity due to factors such as memories and emotions.[1] Yoga practice influences perception in three ways: 1 by increasing perceptual sensitivity, 2 by selectively shutting out undesirable stimuli, and 3 by changing distorted perception, which occurs in schizophrenia.[2] Practicing yoga improved auditory and visual perception, by increasing sensitivity to various characteristics of the stimuli e.g., intensity, frequency .[3] Also, electrophysiological studies using evoked potentials have shown that during yoga practice the transmission of sensory information is facilitated.[4] These studies suggest several applications of yoga practice, in activities ranging from aviation to art.[5] Interestingly, other studies suggest that yoga practice can also help to ...
---Last comment Tue Mar 20 21:08:42 2007 by dr.pradhan,george. from INDIA, visakha patnam.:
The scientific exposition by dr manoj dash is fine.[1] my personal experience is that regulating life is a day to day process, and yoga pathways link the body mind and soul to the primordeal creative energy, a spot of which is in me, and all animate amd inanimate..[2] and that the brain opens up not only to yoga but also to any similar regulated orderly controlled organized life style for the day.and for all days i practice.[3] and the buty of yoga is ...