International Journal of
Information and Education Technology

Abstract

Mindfulness meditation has been taken as a method to release the short and long terms of stress and anxiety. A questionnaire was investigated to measure the effect of mental change as well as the changing of brain signals while doing the mindfulness meditation. Ten healthy-young participants were recruited to investigate the effect of mindfulness meditation compare with self-relaxation. Brain activities from participants were recorded during practicing mindfulness meditation using Electroencephalogram (EEG) with 10-20 system of electrode placements. A questionnaire with 30 questions was applied to estimate meditation depth. The differences between self-relaxation and mindfulness-meditation were analyzed according to meditation depth and brain activities recorded with EEG. Compared with self-relaxation, mindfulness-meditation reduces hindrance and increases the level of relax. Although subjects were subjectively unaware of the calmness during mindfulness-meditation practice, compared with self-relaxation, the recorded data suggested that mindfulness meditation reduces the short term induced tension, indicated by the significant increment of theta and alpha power spectrum of brain activities along the time.