Six Sigma Unravels Science of Meditation

A scientific explanation of how meditation works is presented. There is abundant literature in various disciplines on the health benefits of meditation. Given that meditation is known to have an impact on autonomic functions such as heart rate and respiration rate, the paper proposes that meditation works by producing an effect on the thirty-three vertebrae of the central nervous system through the use of the thirty-three plus alphabets of a language such as Sanskrit. Examples of some mantras and their effect on the photonic energy of subjects and cardiac functions are presented as corroborative evidence of the proposed thesis.