Medical benefits of chanting mantras

[Jahnava Nitai Das 2]

In the Star Newspaper of Malaysia an AFP sent article presented the

following statement about the benefits of chanting yogic mantras for health:

 

"...the apparent benefit to health from rythmic, spiritual recitation,

according to a study, which is also published in today's British Medical

Journal.

 

"Luciano Bernardi, a professor of internal medicine at the University of

Pavia in Italy, measured the breathing rates of 23 volunteers as they either

talked normally, recited the catholic prayer Ave Mariain Latin or recited

yogic mantras.

 

Both the prayer and the mantras caused "striking, powerful and syncronous

increases in cardiovascular rhythms, slowing respiration to six time a

minute."