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The 46 pages that link to Meditation, each with the reason it gives.

• AsceticismRelated: Repeated practice can discipline attention and weaken habitual attachment.

• YogaRelated: Meditation overlaps with yoga but also exists independently across many traditions.

• MysticismRelated: Meditative discipline can alter attention and support experiences associated with mysticism.

• PranayamaRelated: Breath regulation can steady attention and serve as preparation for meditation.

• SilenceRelated: Quiet surroundings can support practices that attend closely to thought and sensation.

• WorshipRelated: Contemplative meditation can express devotion without public speech or ritual objects.

• SolitudeRelated: Meditation can use quiet time alone to support focused attention.

• ContemplationRelated: Many contemplative traditions use meditation to stabilize attention or investigate experience.

• NondualismRelated: Some practices investigate the felt division between awareness and its contents.

• Self-cultivationRelated: Contemplative practice can strengthen attention to motives and reactions.

• UposathaRelated: Uposatha can provide extended time for meditation beyond ordinary routines.

• Antoninus PiusRelated: Marcus's recollections of Antoninus preserve a direct account of the conduct he admired in his predecessor.

• Jiddu KrishnamurtiRelated: He rejected prescribed methods while describing meditation as attentive observation.

• Kundalini yogaRelated: Meditation often follows or accompanies physical and breathing exercises in Kundalini yoga.

• Altered state of consciousnessRelated: Some forms produce marked changes in attention, emotion, and the sense of self.

• Religious ecstasyRelated: Some contemplative practices cultivate states described as ecstatic or unitive.

• Falun GongRelated: Falun Gong includes still meditation alongside its moving exercises.

• ŚramaṇaRelated: Meditative disciplines formed one route toward insight and liberation.

• Susan BlackmoreRelated: Blackmore has described meditation as a way to examine the construction of self and conscious experience.

• JediismRelated: Some Jediist groups use meditation to cultivate calm, focus, and reflective self-discipline.

• Spiritual practiceRelated: Many traditions use meditation to steady attention or cultivate insight.

• Astral projectionRelated: Some practitioners use meditation to induce the detachment and vivid imagery associated with projection.

• Eastern religionsRelated: Buddhist and Taoist traditions developed influential methods with different aims.

• Eckhart TolleRelated: Meditation is one setting in which Tolle’s emphasis on observing thought can be explored.

• Mystical or religious experienceRelated: Meditative disciplines can cultivate experiences interpreted as transcendent or sacred.