Meditation: The practice of focusing on a simple stimulus or precept while sitting alone, quietly. This results in a higher state of consciousness, greater creativity, elevated resistance to disease, and a state of equanimity or bliss. Meditation is best practiced in conjunction with spiritual or psychological teachings that are available in a seminar near you.
An alternative explanation for meditation is that it represents nothing more than a state of relaxation due to the 'incidental' fact that one is sitting alone, quietly, and thinking of next to nothing, and thus costs next to nothing.
One of these explanations is right, and the other is useful to make a lot of money. Guess which one is which, and is the most popular.
