Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state. Meditation is practiced in numerous religious traditions.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
meditation (noun)1.
a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation
2.
the act or process of - meditating
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
meditation (noun)long or deep thinking about spiritual matters
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meditationRELATED WORDS:
brown study, daydreaming, introspection, muse, navel-gazing, reflection, retrospection, reverie, study, trance, woolgathering; cogitation, deliberation, musing, pondering, rumination