The phrase "contemplative state" is correct and usable in written English.
This phrase is often used in a figurative sense, to refer to a situation of deep thought or meditation. For example: "When I went for my morning walk, I entered a contemplative state, allowing my mind to drift and my thoughts to wander."
Nothing much happens yet people come and stay for hours in a contemplative state.
Havelock Ellis, the pioneering British physician, described the contemplative state in his landmark six-volume study of sexual behavior, published between 1897 and 1910.
His down-tempo beats are intended to cause what he has called "rhythmic anguish," a more meditative and contemplative state, though they still retain an insinuating groove.
The corporeal disposition for this contemplative state involves intense concentration and a methodical invocation of the name of Jesus (the Hesychastic "Jesus prayer").
But the music of "Satyagraha" becomes increasingly mantra-like and hypnotically beautiful as it unfolds, inspiring a contemplative state in a listener willing to go with the flow.
The new architecture at its best forces the user to notice or rethink conventional behavior: even in its quietest renditions, it insists that you enter a contemplative state.
Built environments can induce contemplative states, but direct evidence for their impact on the brain is lacking.
Horn's ambition was to inspire spiritual, contemplative states with his music, which included duets with orcas in the 2001 video Haida and Paul Horn: The Adventures of a Killer Whale and a Jazz Musician.
Viewing the contemplative buildings also allowed "subjects to enter into a meditative state with diminishing levels of anxiety and mind wandering".
If a pensive slow movement from a Haydn symphony were to put a listener in a contemplative spiritual state, Haydn would be pleased, even if that was not his specific intention.
The results showed that staring at contemplative buildings did, in fact, elicit neural correlates of meditative states, but in a different way than internally-driven methods did.
