Meditation
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Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
Meditation has been practiced since antiquity in numerous religious traditions and beliefs. Since the 19th century, it has spread from its origins to other cultures where it is commonly practiced in private and business life.
Meditation may be used with the aim of reducing stress, anxiety, depression, and pain, and increasing peace, perception, self-concept, and well-being. Meditation is under research to define its possible health (psychological, neurological, and cardiovascular) and other effects.
Meditation
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 Young children practicing meditation in a Peruvian school Forms of meditationFocused attention methods Open monitoring methods Practices using both methods No thought Automatic self-transcending |
Meditation practiceCommon practice timings
Meditative Postures and techniques
Use of prayer beads Secular applications
Sound-based meditation Clinical StudiesMeditation, religion, and drugsQuotes on Meditation |
Meditation position
Religious and spiritual meditation
Indian religionsJainism Hinduism Sikhism East Asian religionsTaoism Modern spiritualityNew AgeNew Age meditations
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Abrahamic religionsJudaism
Christianity
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