meditating
v.v. to spend time in quiet thought to relax your mind or for religious reasons. You often do this by sitting still and focusing on your breathing.
v. to engage in mental exercise, such as concentration on one's breathing or repetition of a mantra, for the purpose of reaching a heightened level of spiritual awareness or relaxation. Present participle of 'meditate'.
She spends twenty minutes every morning meditating in her garden.
After a stressful day at the office, he finds that meditating helps him clear his head and lower his blood pressure.
While some view meditating as a purely secular tool for stress management, others approach the practice as a profound spiritual discipline aimed at achieving a state of detached observation.
Intransitive; often followed by the preposition 'on' when referring to the subject of thought.
He is meditating the problem.He is meditating on the problem.When used to mean deep thinking, the verb is intransitive and requires the preposition 'on' before the object.