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continuous relation with cardiovascular risk.52 Our data indicate that: decreased glycosylated haemoglobin concentration, following Preksha Yoga intervention has reduced the risk of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in the diabetic subjects.
Preksha yoga therapy module applied in the present study comprises Preksha Meditation as its main component along with supplementary components namely, selected asanas and health rejuvenating exercises, lisestyle modification and very precise dietary regimen. The diet chart provided to the subjects of experimental group included the food ingredients having low gylcemic index. Such diet definitely helps in bringing down the plasma glucose level and maintaining the near normal lipid profile in the diabetic subjects. It seems that it helps in promoting the therapeutic effects of Preksha Yoga. Similar beneficial effects of low glycemic diet were also observed by Kelly (2003)53, Wolever (199454, 200355), Tariq (2002)56, Jimenez-Cruz et al (2003)57, Andel et al (2004)58, Biesalski et al (2004)59.
Preksha yoga therapy module is a module where the practice of Preksha Meditation is at the core and other components, viz., health rejuvenating exercises, asanas, life style and dietary modulations, are supplementary to the Preksha Meditation. It is presumed that whatever changes have been recorded during the whole duration of study appeared due to psychobiological efficacy of Preksha Meditation. It is relevant to mention here that the core and integral components of Preksha Meditation are relaxation with self awareness (Kayotsarga), perception of breathing, perception of body, perception of psychic centers, perception of psychic colours and contemplation.
Relaxation is practiced to counteract the ill effects of stress. Here in this case stress would mean deformation of our comforts in NIDDM. It can display itself as tightness, an anxiety or an irrational fear. Under such stress we feel irritable, getting easily upset or angry and as stress increases we may begin to feel that we simply cannot cope with the situation any more, and finally that leads to several diseases or disorders, diabetes being one of them. Whenever one encounters a psychological stressful situation, an elaborate innate mechanism is automatically put into action. This mechanism involves (1) hypothalamus - the remarkable portion of the brain which integrates all functions of the body which are not normally controlled by the
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