This is actually a lot of what I get out of meditation. I’m not really able to actually stop myself from thinking, and I’m not very diligent at noticing that I’m thinking and returning to the breath or whatever, but since I’m in this frame of “I’m not supposed to be thinking right now but it’s ok if I do”, the thoughts I do have tend to have this reflective/subtle nature to them. It’s a lot like ‘shower thoughts’ - having unstructured time where you’re not doing anything, and you’re not supposed to be doing anything, and you’re also not supposed to be doing nothing, is valuable for the mind. So I guess meditation is like scheduled slack for me.
This is actually a lot of what I get out of meditation. I’m not really able to actually stop myself from thinking, and I’m not very diligent at noticing that I’m thinking and returning to the breath or whatever, but since I’m in this frame of “I’m not supposed to be thinking right now but it’s ok if I do”, the thoughts I do have tend to have this reflective/subtle nature to them. It’s a lot like ‘shower thoughts’ - having unstructured time where you’re not doing anything, and you’re not supposed to be doing anything, and you’re also not supposed to be doing nothing, is valuable for the mind. So I guess meditation is like scheduled slack for me.