Rene Descartes and meditation

With Descartes "meditating" is far more than "cogatating" for every thought is a cogitatio including that which feels or imagines but only that thought which ponders over its own self is meditatio. In the frequentative form, meditating is mederi, i.e. to mend one's ways, to heal oneself. Meditation becomes metaphysical is it overcomes doubt by putting to trial true thought, that which holds nothing but from the combination of both soul and body and if it learns the life lesson which is part of such an exceptional trial.