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Indian culture stresses the importance of direction during performance of daily activities. Some yogi prescribe yogic relaxation and polarity practices to be done with head lying towards North in order to align oneself with the earth’s magnetic field. Electromagnetic forces of the Earth, Sun and Moon have been found to greatly influence with biological characteristics. Extensive research of past thirty years has established numerous links between regularly occurring human behaviour and external natural cycles ranging from weather and solar radiations to phases of the moon and the planetary cycles. Hence, the present study was undertaken to observe whether head direction has any effect on heart rate, blood pressure and serum cortisol during supine rest. 40 female medical students of 18-25 years age group in the department of Physiology at Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences were recruited for the study and they were asked to sleep for 8 hours in different directions viz, North, East, South and West directions for 12 weeks. After then their Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP), Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP), Heart Rate (HR) were recorded and the Serum Cortisol (SC) estimated. On comparing the parameters in different directions it was observed that those who were instructed to sleep with head in South direction for 12 weeks had lowest SBP, DBP, HR and SC which was found to be statistically significant. Though the study demonstrates that lying in different directions has a definite effect on heart rate, blood pressure and serum cortisol, further studies are needed in different age groups to understand the mechanisms and implications of this phenomenon.
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Effects of Electromagnetic Forces of Earth on Humans
Indian culture stresses the importance of direction during performance of daily activities. Some yogi prescribe yogic relaxation and polarity practices to be done with head lying towards Nor…