TMI Meditation 2: Counting The Breath (Stage 2)

Part of the skill of meditation is learning to direct and sustain attention wherever you want it to go. To train this skill, the breath is used as the anchor for attention. Breath sensations change all the time, which makes them easier to pay attention to.

Distractions will try to pull your attention off the breath, and you have to try to keep attention engaged.

The first thing we do to help attention stay on the breath sensations is count the breaths.

Based on the book The Mind Illuminated.