mindfulness meditation

a type of meditation in which a person focuses attention on his or her breathing and thoughts, feelings, and sensations are experienced freely as they arise. Mindfulness meditation is intended to enable individuals to become highly attentive to sensory information and to focus on each moment as it occurs. See also transcendental meditation. Compare concentrative meditation.

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December 22nd 2024

musical interval

the pitch or frequency spacing between two sounds. Two sounds that are an octave apart (i.e., with an interval of an octave) have a 2:1 ratio of their fundamental frequencies. See also cent.