Meditation-induced coherence and perennial aging

This article investigates the effects of meditation on human physiological processes using a non-Markovian quantum-like approach compatible with self-organization and the breakdown of ergodicity of ordinary statistical physics. According to the theory of self-organization, these processes are nonergodic and exhibit finite survival. Their scaling behavior is characterized by the parameter δ , ranging from a minimal value of δ = 0 to a maximal value of δ = 1 . The condition of maximal cognition, δ = 1 , represents an idealized limit, as suggested by the relation μ R = 2 − δ , corresponding to unbounded survival ( μ R = 1 ) . Meditation appears to reduce the scaling exponent δ during the meditative state while promoting neural coherence, a property that, in the case of Naam Jap meditation, is attributed entirely to crucial events. During Naam Jap meditation, the decrease in δ is observed in both brain and heart dynamics and is accompanied by enhanced brain–heart complexity synchronization. Following this meditation-induced coherent state, δ increases above its pre-meditation value, with group-level statistical analysis supporting this increase in both electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) dynamics, suggesting a post-meditation enhancement of physiological complexity. These results further suggest that the scaling exponent δ depends on an inverse power-law index μ , following δ = μ − 1 for μ < 2 and δ = 1 / ( μ − 1 ) for μ > 2 , with δ = 0.5 for μ > 3 . We focus on the μ < <m