“There are now several books available that have been written by Buddhist meditators dealing
with chronic depression. Abhi-Dharma encourages you... to explore every avenue for help.
Good luck. Your path isn’t easy but it may be greatly rewarding.”
ADDICTION. See the “Addiction” bibliography.
Addison, Dominic. Can meditation help psychotherapists to practice more effectively? A
literature review. International Journal of Yoga Therapy, 2002, no. 12, pp. 89-104.
Adiswarananda, Swami. Self-expression or self-control? Prabuddha Bharata, Jul 2003,
108:364-370.
Aftanas, L. I., and S. A. Golocheikine. Human anterior and frontal midline theta and lower
alpha reflect emotionally positive state and internalized attention: high-resolution EEG
investigation of meditation. Neurosci Lett 2001 Sep 7;310(1):57-60. Author email:
[email protected]. PMID: 11524157.
EEG spectral power and coherence estimates in the individually defined delta, theta, alpha-1,
alpha-2, and alpha-3 bands were used to identify and characterize brain regions involved in
meditative states, in which focused internalized attention gives rise to emotionally positive
"blissful" experience. Blissful state was accompanied by increased anterior frontal and midline
theta synchronization as well as enhanced theta long-distant connectivity between prefrontal and
posterior association cortex with distinct "center of gravity" in the left prefrontal region (AF3
site). Subjective scores of emotional experience significantly correlated with theta, whereas
scores of internalized attention with both theta and alpha lower synchronization. Our results
propose selective associations of theta and alpha oscillating networks activity with states of
internalized attention and positive emotional experience.
Agnew, Paulette. Emotional management and healing trauma through Dru Yoga. Spectrum: The
Journal of the British Wheel of Yoga, Spring 2002, pp. 24-25.
Ahmad, S., H. Ahmad, and S. S. Sumboo. Personality study of individuals regularly practicing
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Ajnananda, Swami. Tratak. Available online: http://www.yogalinks.net/Articles/Tratak.htm.
On using tratak to assist someone suffering from insomnia due to night terrors linked to earlier
sexual abuse.
Akers, T. K., D. M. Tucker, R. S. Roth, et al. Personality correlates of EEG change during
meditation. Psychological Reports, 1977, 40(2):439-442.
Akishige, Yoshiharu. Psychological studies on Zen. Bulletin of the Faculty of Literature of
Kyushu University (Japan), 1968, no. 5.
___. A historical survey of the psychological studies of Zen. Bulletin of the Faculty of
Literature of Kyushu University (Japan), 1974, 5:1-57. Also in Kyushu Psychological StudiesV,
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