I'm making a better effort to meditate, but I don't know if I'm doing it right. Focusing on my breathing and releasing thoughts is hard and if I relax too much, I fall asleep.
If you have related issues when meditating, have you found better ways to meditate or alternatives that give you similar results?
Ok honestly, are we sure art and musing is all that different from regular meditation when you break it down? The difference seems to be that instead of trying to focus on nothing, you're trying to focus on some specific thing or concept or activity, which doesn't seem particularly less "meditation-y" or even less spiritual or healing than "traditional meditation" as long as you're genuinely enraptured in the process or basically not beating yourself up over it or anything