meditation

n. 1. Any process of training the mind through focusing on the senses, an object, or an internal thought, mantra, or image. There are two basic types of meditation: mindfulness meditations, which seek to increase attention to sensory experience, and transcending meditations, which seek to withdraw from sensory experience in order to attain a higher state of consciousness; both types take many forms. 2. The continuous and profound contemplation of a subject or an area of thought of a philosophic or scientific nature.