What is Meditation?

Meditation has been attracting the interests of many professionals and individuals in our society for over thirty years. The following essay starts as usual with defining meditation and viewing it from different perspectives; differentiation of meditation techniques as Naranjo and Ostein saw them and the difference between meditation and other altered states. Psychologists studied the processes of information processing and specifically emphasised on the importance of the processes of attention. Meditation also involves physiological process, which are central to many psychological researches; evaluation on psychological research and its implications….(short extract)