Meditation

August 15th, 2010 -- Posted in Healthy Activities, Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Tips | No Comments »

The meditation practice describes a state of concentrated attention on an external object, thought, consciousness itself, or the actual state of concentration. The word “meditation” comes from the Latin meditatio, which originally indicated a type of intellectual exercise. Thus, in the Western religious sphere has distinguished between “meditation” and “contemplation”, reserving the second meaning religious or spiritual. This distinction becomes tenuous in Eastern culture, so that at the beginning of the influence of Eastern thought in Europe, the word would acquire a new popular use.

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