Meditation!

[Scented Nectar]

No one has ever been able to explain to me what meditating is in a manner that makes sense. If it is introspection, then it is simply a part of regular thought processes and should be called introspection. If it is repeating a thought or word or phrase over and over in your head (or trying to blank out thoughts) resulting in some sort of magical state of happiness, well the power of suggestions and placebos do work to a small degree, but they are still what they are. Transcendental meditation and nichiren shoshu (sp?) buddhism employ the repetition of words to attain magic, such as money and luck. A long time ago I lost a number of friends to that buddhist cult. I call them the Numb Yoyos, because their chant starts off with something that sounds like that.