meaning of meditation

 Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfullness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity.

What Is Meditation?

This article explains what is meditation and its benefits, what are the most  popular meditation techniques for beginners, and also gives you tips to get started with the practice.

Meditation and mindfulness have become quite popular in recent years—yet most people can’t really define meditation, understand it’s purpose, or appreciate what meditation is good for. This page is here to bridge that gap.

What is the definition of 

meditation in Psychology?

In Psychology, meditation is defined as “a family of mental training practices that are designed to familiarize the practitioner with specific types of mental processes”.

The Benefits of Meditation

 

There are dozens of scientifically proven benefits of meditation. Studies confirm the experience of millions of practitioners: meditation will keep you healthy, help prevent multiple diseases, make you emotionally well, and improve your performance in basically any task, physical or mental.

Some of the benefits come as soon as with 8 weeks of daily practice; other benefits take longer to mature, and will depend on your intensity of practice.

Meditation is good for several things, and it’s different things to different people.  However, it is usually one of these three things that drive people to practice:

• Specific benefit: improving your health, well being, performance, focus.
• Growth: emotional healing, self-knowledge, self-discipline, letting go.
• Spirituality: connecting with God, inner peace, and other spiritual goals.

Whatever drives you to meditate, that is good. You will get the benefits you seek, in the proportion of your consistency and commitment to building this habit. But the wider you cast your net, the more fish you will get — so I would encourage you to practice not only for one particular reason,

but for the sake of the practice itself.

Your motivation may also evolve by time, as the practice starts to unfold in your life.