In the Med1 and Tones tasks, meditators had significantly increased breath amplitude (p = 0.048 and p = 0.036, respectively) and approached significance for the Med2 condition (p = 0.054), but was non-significant for the MIST task (p = 0.271).
Although other CANTAB tasks assessing memory and sustained attention showed trends toward improvement, these results did not reach statistical significance.
The present study shows an apparent trend of the “stress level” score from the Garmin device also affected by the breathing rate and postural position.
There was a positive trend between clinical hypnosis and sustained tobacco cessation (HR=1.12), though not statistically significant.