- "Meditation is the act of selecting a specific stimulus and concentrating on it." - H.E. Garrett.
- "Meditation is the mental concentration on selective stimuli." - James Drewer
- Explain the form and symptoms of meditation.
(1) Meditation is a selective process.
- Meditation is a selective voluntary process.
- Man cannot pay attention to all the stimuli that are in front of him at any one time.
- But, some of them choose the stimulus. And ignores the second stimulus.
- For example, while watching a movie, women often pay more attention to the clothes, looks, etc. of the actresses.
- While men pay more attention to the actor's behavior or attitudes.
(2) Meditation is adjustable:
- When a person pays attention, he adjusts physically and mentally.
- At this time the nerves of the brain, the sense organs, the different parts of the body, etc., adjust to each other.
- For example, when a person sees a distant object, he shrinks his eyes, closes his eyes, makes a hand shell over his eyes and tries to pay enough attention to see the object.
- Adjustment is found here physically and mentally.
(3) Meditation is exploratory:
- When we focus on a stimulus, we test it. We test it by turning it back and forth.
- We check the size, color, quality, etc. of the item.
- For example, when we go to a clothing store to buy clothes, we check the design of the clothes, its color, the quality of the clothes, etc.
- Hence meditation is exploratory.
(4) Meditation is futuristic:
- When focusing on any stimulus, we look to the future in terms of certain stimuli.
- For example, when we go to buy a house, we think of the near and far.
- The place will have paved roads, light water system, and vehicle facility in future.
- Let's buy a house with that in mind.
- Thus, through meditation a person makes futuristic thoughts.
(5) Meditation is inspiring:
- When the focus is on any stimulus.
- Then the motivating willpower of the person behind it is at work.
- So meditation can be called inspirational.
- For example, when a person pays attention to a lot of news or public news in a newspaper, young people pay more attention to public news about jobs. As well as children are more attracted to sports matters.
(6) Meditation has a border region and a center region.
- When a person pays attention to the environment of the external environment, the stimulus which is clearly present on the consciousness of the person is called Kendra Pradesh and the stimulus on which its consciousness is not clearly present is called the boundary region.
- Sometimes the territory and the border are changing.
- For example, when a lamp is burning in a room, the lamp's flame often becomes the center.
- The lamp then becomes the border region.
- So sometimes when you focus on the lamp, it becomes the center region and the flame of the lamp becomes the border region.
- In Rubin's figure, the center of attention and the border of the focus are often changed.
(7) Meditation is fickle:
- Meditation is called fickle because it lacks stability.
- The focus is constantly changing.
- Such instability of meditation is also called distraction.