Religion & Spirituality
The Bible recommend meditation, but it's not really the same idea as what we see in Eastern philosophy, where meditation basically involves clearing your mind of thoughts, calming and slowing your body and becoming more in tuned with the cosmic forces of the universe. The idea of Biblical meditation doesn't involve emptying our minds of thoughts, but rather filling them with the right kind of thoughts - thoughts focused on God.This is something we’re called to do as Christians. And in a culture where we’re constantly bombarded by stimuli, whether it’s entertainment, information, or just noise, it’s rare that we ever take the time to be still, to remove ourselves from everything going around us, and just think about God. Not a free-form thinking where I imagine God is whatever I want Him to be, but rather thinking about how God presents Himself to me through the word.As it happens, when we're meditating on the right things, it's absolutely a way to achieve peace - but a peace springing from our faith in God, rather than a faith in human ability to achieve some form of enlightenment.