Dear Logan:

When thoughts are racing in your mind, shift your attention from the thoughts to your breathing. Focus on the air going in and the air coming out. Listen to the inhale and the exhale, feel your belly inflate and feel it deflate. When you lose focus and go back to your thinking, re-focus on your breathing again.

As I understand it, meditation in the simplest sense is moving your attention from thinking to sensing, be it sensing your breathing, sensing sounds, seeing a flower, smelling an orange, tasting an orange.

anita