concentrative
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- adjective
- /ˈkɒnsənˌtreɪtɪv/
- Specialized
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concentrativo
- Indeed, I've heard stories of many people who were shown how to do concentrative meditation and then complained that it made their mind race!
- concentrative meditation
Examples
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I've never been personally very good at concentrative meditation.
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In basic concentrative meditation, the instruction and the immediate goal is to focus your attention on a very narrow range of experience, a single kind of experience, as it were.
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Now it's very hard to be completely successful at this kind of concentrative meditation and have a sense of experiencing nothing but the focus point.
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Traditional spiritual systems recommend that we learn concentrative meditation and insight meditation.
Academic text (1993) -
Since the 1970s, a majority of studies have focused on concentrative meditation techniques and transcendental meditation.
Academic text (2013) -
The reality is that our mind is usually racing all the time; concentrative meditation practice doesn't make your mind race; it just makes us aware of that.
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Concentrative meditation is for quieting and stabilizing the mind, sobering up from our intellectual and emotional intoxication.
Academic text (1993) -
Concentrative and insight/mindfulness were the most prevalent forms of meditation, with 79% (n = 26) utilizing one or both forms.
Academic text (1996) -
I'll talk about the first C-CAP as concentrative meditation, to use the classical Buddhist term, and vipassana meditation to describe the second kind of meditative practice (often called insight meditation).
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In concentrative meditation, you focus your attention on your breath, an image, or a mantra to still your mind.
Surface Forms
Morphology
concentrative = concentrate (transparent) = concentrate + ive
The adjective is a regular formation from 'concentrate' with the productive suffix '-ive' meaning 'relating to' or 'tending to', so the meaning is directly derived.
Etymology
Concentrative comes from the parts con- meaning 'together' and center meaning 'center', and it is like the words concentrate and center. So a concentrative method is one that brings things together or focuses them toward the center, which explains why it describes processes that increase concentration in science and technology.