Thoughts?

Definitions are the meaning of a word. Not two words.

is the jeopardy? I feel like I'm supposed to answer meditation?

I think prayer and meditation can be the same thing or very different depending on who and why.
Words often have more than one meaning and always depend on context.

90Jack said:

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Thoughts?

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Do you mean like accumulating all your relaxation into a small period of time, like when you go on vacation?

BluHorseShu said:

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90Jack said:

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Thoughts?

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Do you mean like accumulating all your relaxation into a small period of time, like when you go on vacation?

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…just contemplating the need for a break and not much time in which to do it. I told someone I needed some concentrated relaxation. Reflecting on it, the contrast between those terms is almost oxymoronic and I thought it would be interesting to see how other people de-stress in a short time period.

This is off the intended topic then, but there is a seemingly paradoxical state that needs to be described. People have used similar terms such as relaxed focus or soft vigilance as it relates to eastern meditation. In psychology, there is a cultural bias toward thinking of attention as effortful making it seem as though one cannot be engaged in effortful attention and be physiologically relaxed at the same time. Work in recent decades shows this is not true. Briefly, effortful attention (related to effortful cognition) as described by cognitivists occurs during sympathetic dominance, but it turns out that cognition that uses most available resources can also occur during parasympathetic dominance. (Bear in mind that the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are opposed to one another and saying one is dominant is about the relative activity, not necessarily stating one is virtually inactive.)

90Jack said:

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BluHorseShu said:

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90Jack said:

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Thoughts?

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Do you mean like accumulating all your relaxation into a small period of time, like when you go on vacation?

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…just contemplating the need for a break and not much time in which to do it. I told someone I needed some concentrated relaxation. Reflecting on it, the contrast between those terms is almost oxymoronic and I thought it would be interesting to see how other people de-stress in a short time period.

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I would think of it more as set aside relaxation.

I try to set aside thirty minutes of Sabbath/Shalom into every day.

play games, but downplay the outcome. Anything from golf to chess that requires you to concentrate and get in a "flow state". But focus on the activity, not the score.