A fMRI Study of Stages of Yoga Meditation Described in Traditional Texts
2014 Shirley Telles, Nilkamal Singh, Kv Naveen et al.
Objectives: Meditation is described in traditional yoga texts as three stages, which follow each other in sequence: (i) Focused attention (FA), (ii) Focused attention on the object of meditation (MF), and (iii) Meditation with one-pointed focused attention without effort (ME). When not in meditation the mind is considered to be in a state of normal consciousness characterized by random thinking...