A selective review of dharana and dhyana in healthy participants

Attention is an important part of the process of meditation. Traditional Yoga texts describe two stages of meditation which follow each other in sequence. These are meditative focusing (dharana in Sanskrit) and effortless meditation (dhyana in Sanskrit). This review evaluated eight experimental stud...

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Main Authors: Shirley Telles, Nilkamal Singh, Ram Kumar Gupta, Acharya Balkrishna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-10-01
Series:Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0975947616302406