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Meditation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the mental discipline. For the form of alternative dispute resolution, seeMediation. For other uses, seeMeditation (disambiguation). A statue of theBuddha meditating, Borim Temple,Korea

Meditation refers to any of a family of practices in which the practitioner trains his or hermind or self-induces a mode of consciousness in order to realize some benefit.[1][2][3]

Meditation is generally an internally-invoked, personal practice, which an individual can do by themselves.Prayer beads or other ritual objects may be used during meditation. Meditation may involve invoking or cultivating a feeling or internal state, such ascompassion, orattending to a specific focal point. The term can refer to the state itself, as well as to practices or techniques employed to cultivate the state.[4]

There are dozens or more specific styles of meditation practice;[3] the wordmeditation may carry different meanings in different contexts. Meditation has been practiced since antiquity as a component of numerous religious traditions, especially, in Western countries, in monastic settings. In the Eastern spiritual traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, meditation is more commonly a practice engaged in by many, if not most, believers.

A 2007 study by the U.S. government found that nearly 9.4% of U.S. adults (over 20 million) had practiced meditation within the past 12 months, up from 7.6% (more than 15 million people) in 2002.[5]

Since the 1960s, meditation has been the focus of increasingscientific research of uneven rigor and quality.[6] In over 1,000 published research studies, various methods of meditation have been linked to changes in metabolism, blood pressure, brain activation, and other bodily processes.[7][8] Meditation has been used in clinical settings as a method of stress and pain reduction.[9][10]

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