Meditation

2022: A visitor to a Moscow fitness club meditated in the pool and fell into a coma

Muscovite fell into a coma after meditation under water in the pool. According to the newspaper Izvestia, this happened in the capital's fitness club "Clouds" on June 30, 2022.

According to the newspaper, the employees of the sports complex made comments to the man that he should not dive under water for a long time, but he did not listen to them. He was taken to a medical facility with pulmonary edema. By July 1, 2022, doctors in intensive care are fighting for his life, the publication says. According to RIA Novosti, citing its own source, the victim is in a coma.

A visitor to a Moscow fitness club meditated in the pool and fell into a coma

Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) writes that the victim's wife noted that her husband drank hard on the eve of the incident. Perhaps this was the cause of the accident. In relation to the management of the fitness club, a check has begun.

According to the newspaper, the incident happened in the pool on Pilot Babushkin Street. A 36-year-old man came to buy a subscription on May 10, 2022. The man visited the pool at least twice a week. In the afternoon of June 30, 2022, a man came to swim and drowned. According to the fitness club, there were two instructors in the aquazone that day. But the trainers noticed the man under water late: by that time he had already lost consciousness.

According to MK, the fitness club denied the version of the emergency during meditation. The administration of the sports club said that the man was just swimming.^[1]

2019: What happens in the brain during meditations

According to data obtained in 2019, there is primarily increased activity of the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for our memory and cognitive functions. And in the amygdala of the brain, associated with experiences, anxiety and fear, activity, on the contrary, decreases.

Neuroscientists also noted that during meditations, a tomograph records an increase in activity in a part of the cerebral cortex called the "Isle of Reil." This island is associated with our positive emotions, empathy and manifestation of love.

Meditations also help restore sleep and manage depression. In terms of effectiveness, meditative practices are comparable to standard methods of antidepressant therapy and have no side effects.

Eight weeks of regular exercise increases the gray matter density of those areas of the brain that are responsible for learning and memory.