To Meditate... Or Not To Meditate

I have always associated meditation with "eastern" religions. Lately, I have been challenged to look into the subject. After little thought, I said to myself, "wait a minute, lumping "meditation" as something only "eastern religions" do, is as absurd as lumping "breathing" as something "eastern religions" do.

It seems as though we already meditate...

We often clear our minds of all distraction, and visualize ... New clothes... Money... Friends... Romance... Vengeance.





It seems as though David is not performing an exercise of clearing his mind of all. Or emptying his mind of all. It seems as though he is filling his mind with a particular focus. What do you think??

Ps 63:6
When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches,

Ps 77:12
I will meditate on all Your work And muse on Your deeds.

Ps 119:15
I will meditate on Your precepts And regard Your ways.

Ps 119:27
Make me understand the way of Your precepts, So I will meditate on Your wonders.

Ps 119:48
And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments, Which I love; And I will meditate on Your statutes. Zayin.

Ps 119:78
May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie; But I shall meditate on Your precepts.

Ps 119:148
My eyes anticipate the night watches, That I may meditate on Your word .

Ps 143:5
I remember the days of old ; I meditate on all Your doings; I muse on the work of Your hands.

Ps 145:5
On the glorious splendor of Your majesty And on Your wonderful works, I will meditate.

Ps 4:4
Tremble, and do not sin; Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still . Selah.

Ps 27:4
One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life , To behold the beauty of the LORD And to meditate in His temple.