I have tried meditation years ago with little success, it does help me fall asleep if necessary, by diverting the internal dialogue, but of course sleep is not the goal of meditation....
I have definitely had success with walking meditation;
i've heard tell everything you spend a lot of time thinking about is also a meditation..
That happens often if we lay down and meditate, that we fall asleep, but this is also having benefits for our health by relaxing us.. The book that first got me mediateing was called Mind Calm, and it referred to them as a Meep (meditation and sleep lol).. like its still worth doing even if one falls asleep! Open eye exercises are good like watching the space in a circle for example or letting the eyes wonder around a room whilst simple nameing the shape of the thing you look at..
Many ways ☺ I have tried walking a few times but only for short periods
i spent a few months backpacking on the Appalachian trail, and i can say i have never felt so inexplicably good before; in the present moment, feeling i was at exactly the right place, at exactly the right time, so serendipitous, so surreal.
Ever since then, i long for the day when i can return to the trail, someday..
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