Difference between Meditate and Ruminate

MEDITATE vs RUMINATE: ADJECTIVE

Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

Chew the cuds
Reflect deeply on a subject
To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
To meditate or reflect.

To think or reflect, especially in a calm and deliberate manner.
To plan in the mind; intend.
To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.
To engage in devotional contemplation, especially prayer.
To engage in meditation regarding (a religious mystery, for example).
To train, calm, or empty the mind, often by achieving an altered state, as by focusing on a single object, especially as a form of religious practice in Buddhism or Hinduism.
To engage in focused thought on scriptural passages or on particular doctrines or mysteries of a religion, especially Christianity.

To think abstractedly; engage in mental contemplation; revolve a subject in the mind; cogitate; ruminate.
To think out a plan or method; engage in planning or contriving; fix one's thoughts with reference to a result or conclusion: followed by on or upon.
Synonyms To consider, reflect. See list under contemplate, v. t.
To plan; design; intend.
To think on; revolve in the mind; consider.
To observe thoughtfully or intently; contemplate vigilantly; watch.
Synonyms To devise, concoct.
To contemplate, ruminate, revolve, study.

In botany, appearing as if chewed: noting a structure of the endosperm (albumen) of a seed which gives a mottled appearance to its section, and which results from the infolding of a dark inner layer of the seed-coat into the lighter-colored matter of the endosperm, as in the nutmeg.
To turn over in the mind; muse on; meditate over and over.
To chew again.
To muse; meditate; think again and again; ponder: as, to ruminate on misfortunes.
To chew the cud, as a ruminant; practise rumination.

Pray, Consider, Think, Pore, Think over, Mull over, Chew over, Speculate, Study, Mull, Reflect, Muse, Contemplate, Ponder, Ruminate

Agonize, Philosophize, Cogitate, Endosperm, Pore, Chew over, Mull over, Think over, Reflect, Speculate, Muse, Meditate, Mull, Contemplate, Ponder

Relax, Pray, Consider, Think, Pore, Think over, Chew over, Speculate, Study, Mull, Reflect, Muse, Contemplate, Ponder, Ruminate

Reminisce, Expound, Agonize, Philosophize, Endosperm, Pore, Think over, Chew over, Reflect, Speculate, Muse, Meditate, Mull, Contemplate, Ponder

Have you already learned to meditate with me?
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Do you wish to meditate at this altar?
What to do during the full moon: Meditate.
Meditate on the authority and power of Jesus.
You can do deep breathing exercise or meditate.
Meditate on the power of renewing your mind.
Breathe deeply and meditate for a few minutes.
It is wonderful words on which to meditate.
What we did through clinical tests is we discovered that those who meditate frequently, and when we say meditate, meditate meaning across the board.

We observe, mimic behaviors, and ruminate on the subject somewhere in between.
Why ruminate about a Disney kid and the social psychology of Tumblr?
Others ruminate about losing control, harming other people, or contracting a disease.
We also ruminate on a white paper exploring potentially racist hiring practices.
Finally, athletes with higher athletic identity tend to ruminate and catastrophize more.
Walking in nature, specifically, reduces our tendency to ruminate over negative thoughts.
So, the ruminate remains, how do you efficaciously reduce venter stout?
A drink with complex flavors helps me ruminate on delectable poems.
Maximizers tend to brood or ruminate more than sacrificers.
But even one viewing leaves plenty to ruminate on.