There are various methods of Jewish meditation. They range from simple meditations, such as replacing mundane thoughts with loftier reflection, to the more sophisticated meditations whence one reaches a higher state of awareness and consciousness.

The scope of Jewish meditation encompasses intellectual meditation and emotional meditation, body-movement meditation to transcendental meditation, and many more.

The word "meditation" calls to mind the traditional, obvious associations that society has accumulated, such as the lotus position, the mantras and the like. In addition to the traditional methods of meditation, which finds resonance in Jewish meditation, the idea of meditation is so prevalent within so many of the common Jewish practices which we call the mitzvahs.

Meditation is derived from the Latin word Medi - Center. To meditate is to discover and align our center of being with the actions that express who we are in life. It is to get in touch with the true self that animates our life and not the false self that manifests as the ego and which derives its identity from the externals, i.e.; things, titles, and so on. Through meditation life can be lived more authentically by discovering our potential and by relating to the external from the internal. Ostensibly, if one's ground of being is outer directed then it is logical to infer that the only interaction with the outer world is the external carapace that one has put in place, minimizing the role of the Self.

...the idea of meditation is so prevalent within so many of the common Jewish practices which we call the mitzvahs

Meditation weans one from the dependency on the external and redirects the focus inward. Jewish meditation is designed to focus on the center of all reality, the Creator, and to forge a connection between the self and G-d.