Review of Literature:🔗

Several papers have studied the role of meditation (relaxation response), yoga, tai chi and other eastern techniques and its effects on human physiology.

• Benson and Steiner (1975) studied the role of hypoxia, O2 consumption and CO2 elimination during meditation. This was published in the Journal of Human Stress, 1, 37-44.
• Peng and Henry (2004) studied the heart rate dynamics during meditation, which was published in the International Journal of Cardiology, 95, 19-27
• Zheng (2007) studied the modulation of immune functions and oxidative status, induced by noise stress, published in Journal of Occupational Heath, 49, 32-38
• Glaser (1990) studied psychological stress induced modulation of IL2 receptor gene expression, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, 47, 707-712

The current study during Inner Awakening was based on a similar study done at Harvard Medical School by Dusck, et al. (2008) on genomic counter stress changes, induced by the relaxation response, published in Public Library Of Science One, 3 (7).