Solat, Brain and Muscle. Any correlation?
Beta Brain waves are responsible in highly focused,
motivated, fast-paced and excited
Alpha Brain Waves are brain waves within the documented frequency
range of 8 Hz to 12 Hz on an E.E.G. and were the first
brainwave frequency range to be discovered.
Theta Brain Waves, which cycle from 4 Hz to 7 Hz (e.g. 4-7
times per second) are associated with early stages of sleep.
Delta Brain Waves are associated with deep sleep and being
completely unconscious.
Among the benefits are:
1.
improve
your ability to learn,
2.
significantly
reduce stress and anxiety levels,
3.
bring
you to a state of peak performance and mental processing,
4.
enhance
your immune system,
5.
allow
you to be creative
6.
help
you stay relaxed.
Most people in state of beta brain waves, but this leads to overstimulation, stress and
difficulties in concentrating. During tama’ninah, alpha signals increase
dramatically (Ng Siew Chok), so from here pray does help us in our years as
medical students and insyaAllah as future doctors.
Prayers offer the benefit of physiotherapy, if done
consistently and correct in terms off postural movement (luckily, khushoo’ is
not one of the prerequisite)
Standing for prayers;
Worshippers utter some verses from Quran which
is written in Arabic. Like any other language, various muscles are exercised
during speech. There is a bilateral increase in blood flow in the face, tongue,
mouth sensory and motor areas, and the upper premotor cortex in the brain
during speech. During creative speech, there is also an increase in blood flow
in Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas of
speech in the brain.
Prostration
During Solat, Muslims usually keep
their eyes fixed on the site of prostration. This visual fixation together with
proprioceptive systems, vestibular systems, and the various postures provide a complex positional sense in
the brain stem and cerebellum.
Conclusion
The physiotherapist of the rehabilitation center
who assists the patient to restore and preserve joint range of motion through
mobilisation techniques and exercise may take this prayer system as a model for
restoring the residual strength of the patient.
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By Islah League (I.L)
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