"Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation process itself." (wikipedia) What is actually being practiced is the ability to concentrate on one specific thing (candle, word, mantra, image etc,) and without that ability to concentrate on one thing and one thing only, one cannot direct energy. This is the same method martial artists use when practicing forms.
"Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation process itself." (wikipedia)
What is actually being practiced is the ability to concentrate on one specific thing (candle, word, mantra, image etc,) and without that ability to concentrate on one thing and one thing only, one cannot direct energy. This is the same method martial artists use when practicing forms.