Samyama (from Sanskrit संयम saṃ-yama—holding together, tying up, binding,[1] integration[2]) is the combined simultaneous practice of dhāraṇā (concentration), dhyāna (meditation) and samādhi (union).
[3] For Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras, Pratyahara is the preceding stage to practicing and developing Samyama.
Any kind of intuitive thinking at its various stages of expression is strongly related to Samyama-like phenomena as well.
[5] Samyama is defined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali verses 3.1 through 3.6 as follows where the Sanskrit in Devanagari and IAST were sourced from Little[7] and the English from Iyengar (1993: pp.
तत्र प्रत्ययैकतानता ध्यानम् ॥ २॥ tatra pratyayaikatānatā dhyānam .. 2.. A steady, continuous flow of attention directed towards the same point or region is meditation (dhyāna).