Meditation is performed with the goal of attaining "inner change," according to the proposed definition.  Traditional explanations...

  Meditation is based on the employment of attention, according to the proposed definition.  In one sense, this is stating the obvious: all ...

Some characteristics often associated with meditation, such as sitting posture and closed eyes, are not included in our description. This is...

Meditation is a method in the sense of a consciously chosen and systematic practice including continuous (i.e., repetitive or long-term) act...

All kinds of meditation, according to our definition, are “techniques.”  Unlike many of the daily social behaviors usually examined by socio...

Table Of Contents What Is Meditation? In the west, the word meditation has a long and complicated history, and it has no p...