rumination
consideration
meditation
These words occupy a wide range of energies, and all describe the process of weighing an idea in your palm. I'm familiar with rumination, which is very like picking a stone from the beach, putting it in your pocket and fingering it compulsively, literally "worrying" it. I can't advocate for this kind of mind-work, which generates a closed cycle of anxiety. Consideration is more equivocal, but still located strictly in the brain: one, two or more ideas or options are collected, then sorted, rearranged, or ranked. There's not a particular outcome with this process, which can be good or not. Meditation offers a calm and vast interior openness, a space where all that is in or on your mind can relax and coexist, flicker and recede from view.
