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Geneva, Switzerland — Daaji (Kamlesh D. Patel), Global Guide of the Heartfulness Institute, visited All Here headquarters in Geneva with his team from India and Switzerland for a wide-ranging exchange on meditation, attention and consciousness.

Over the course of the visit, Daaji and All Here founder Erkin Bek spoke at length about the global challenges to human attention. The conversation moved across traditions of meditation, including the Heartfulness way and other effective approaches, as well as the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and Raja Yoga, the heart and inner light without luminosity, and scientific research on markers of attention and deeper states of absorption.

The All Here and Heartfulness teams also explored modern technological applications such as neural computing and pioneering human-led systems and building bridges with the wider layers of society.

“The rich conversation and interactions with Daaji and among our teams were profound and inspiring for all of us,” Erkin said.

The meeting concluded with Heartfulness and All Here agreeing on a shared mission:

• Support meditation as a profound path to individual and collective well-being;
• Inspire more people to integrate this practice into their daily lives;
• Make meditation more accessible across all layers of society; and
• Advance the science of meditation.

The visit followed the Meditation & Science panel at the University of Lausanne, where Daaji led a meditation session for a packed auditorium. He was joined in discussion by All Here’s Prof. Christoph Michel and World Health Organization Chief Scientist Dr. Sylvie Briand.

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For All Here, understanding meditation as a form of attention regulation and sustained attentional stability is key to helping the public see the value of this practice.

“Dharana and Dhyana in the classical yoga system of Patanjali provide an excellent intellectual framework of yogic attention: concentration on a single object, and sustained continuity of that focal attention,” Erkin said. “The public can translate the value of meditation as building and preserving attentional capacity.”

These direct yet powerful principles of yogic attention are now finding their way into precise neuroscientific observation. All Here plans to continue sharing the science of attention regulation with society in an objective and reliable way, and is grateful to traditions such as Heartfulness who support that journey.