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Scientific research on Nithyananda and meditation and healing

Health benefits of Nithya Spiritual Healing

1. Relief from various physical ailments like cancer, chronic asthma, sinusitis, hernia, renal failure, diabetes, high blood pressure, back problems, allergies, seizures, migraine, wheezing, skin problems, insomnia, etc.

2. Relief from psychological problems like anxiety, depression, phobias etc.

3. Quick healing of physical injuries like burns, pains, aches etc.

4. Solutions to gynecological issues, infertility issues etc.

Services

Nithya Spiritual Healing is a service provided free of cost at thousands of healing centers worldwide, as well as at free healing camps conducted regularly. This unique system of cosmic healing is a meditation for the healer and healing for the person receiving the energy, with the safety of no adverse side-effects.

Paramahamsa Nithyananda was the subject of cutting-edge research experiments that attempted to observe what happened in his brain while he meditated. The goal was to understand, measure and demystify what happens during the mystic phenomena in enlightened beings. Experienced physicians, neuropsychologists, and researchers of the Jim Thorpe Rehabilitation Center Neuropsychology Department, and also the PET Center of Oklahoma, USA, conducted this research.

PET scan studies

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans image the metabolically active brain areas at any given time. Nithyananda's PET scans showed that the activity in the frontal lobes of his brain was significantly heightened, even in early meditation stages. The level of activity was several times higher than would be seen in the average human brain under any conditions. The frontal lobes are associated with the functions of intelligence, attention, wisdom and judgment.

They studied Nithyananda's brain when he was in the deepest meditative state. There were two more remarkable findings. First, the dominant hemisphere of his brain was more than ninety percent shut down. Second, the lower portion of his mesial frontal areas lit up in a very significant way. This area roughly corresponds to the reputed location of the mystical 'Third Eye'.

QEEG Studies

Quantitative Electro Encephalography or QEEG measures electrical patterns in the brain, patterns commonly referred to as brainwaves. There are different bandwidths of brainwaves, each different in frequency, and each associated with a different state of mind. For instance, beta brainwaves are small and fast and linked with an awake, alert state of mind. Alpha brainwaves are slower and larger, and are connected to feelings of wellbeing. Theta waves represent a state of consciousness that is close to sleep, a stage in which there is a sense of calmness and serenity, without active thought.

From Nithyananda's QEEG we can see that he has complete control over his brainwaves. When in deep meditation, his brain smoothly shifted from one state to another, like a talented pianist playing the scales.

Nithya Spiritual Healing

Research was conducted on Nithyananda's brainwave patterns, heart rate variability (HRV) and skin conductance level (SCL) when he was offering healing to another person *. The studies showed shifts in the power spectra indicating sympathetic arousal to match the energy of Nithyananda's heart thus indicating that the subject's heart rhythms entrained to Nithyananda's during the healing session.

(JACM, 2004, vol. 10(4); 15th ISSSEEM Conference 2005)