meditative

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The meditative quality of stargazing can reduce anxiety and stress, while forcing people to pull themselves away from their phones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

"It's almost meditative doing something creative with my hands."

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

Michelle Lopez’s video “Pandemonium” began life as a live performance inside a planetarium, and the film is a meditative look at man-made disasters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

I see it as a deeply intimate, devastating, life-affirming, life-depleting, psychotic, meditative, euphoric, addictive struggle of building something where before there was nothing.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

The thrush in my backyard sings down his nose in meditative, liquid runs of melody, over and over again, and I have the strongest impression that he does this for his own pleasure.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas