As I work as a gardener now, in a very quiet atmosphere (a graveyard) it is easier to just let go of thinking, I also try to do the tree meditation some days, and I like it. And I try to remind myself to be present in the moment and the action. I also like lying in the grass, relaxing all the parts of my body, following the breath and listening to all the noises around without judging anything. Lying in the grass makes me feel grounded and connected to nature too.
I agree on not making it an issue, it seems to work in my life generally, especially with smoking. I smoke occasionally and if I decide to completely quit I think about cigarettes a lot and it becomes a problem. The best seems to be just to think whether I really want a cigarette or not when I am about to smoke.
I went to a music meditation thing once, where we tried meditation to different kinds of music, jazz seemed to work best for me. But I use music all the time to work on different art projects, and it feels like a meditation too, like I connect to a universal source of creativity, and the ideas seems to be much better than ego-based ones. I recognized the process in David Lynch's "Catching the big fish."
I guess most people meditate daily in some way or another.
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