Meditation is a practice that involves focusing or clearing your mind using a combination of mental and physical techniques. Depending on the meditation type, you can meditate to relax, reduce anxiety and stress, and more. Some people even use meditation to help them improve their health, such as using it to help adapt to the challenges of quitting tobacco products. The practice of meditation is thousands of years old, and different forms come from around the world. However modern science has only studied this practice in detail over the last few decades. Some of the biggest leaps in science’s understanding of meditation have only been possible thanks to modern technology. On the outside, someone who’s meditating might not seem to be doing anything other than breathing or repeating a sound or phrase over and over.