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med-i-TAYSHUN/ˌmedɪˈteɪʃn/

Meditation is training attention, often in silence, for calm or focus: a meditation club; mindfulness meditation. Prayer is addressed to a deity; reflection is thinking. A club is not a counselling referral. Verb: meditate (later in this set). Mix-up: mediation is peace talks (already elsewhere); medication is medicine (already in the dictionary). Do not write meditation for a tablet.

Meaning

The practice of training attention, often in silence, for calm or focus.

Examples

• “A meditation club is not a substitute for a counselling referral.”
• “The RS paper asked how meditation differs from petitionary prayer, which is the practice sense.”

Good to know

meditation; mindfulness meditation. Verb: meditate. Trap: mediation / medication. RS, PSHE, and health. Quiet focus, not a drug or a legal talk.

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