Help with meditation

Try Sohum mantra meditation....it's very effective. You can also try counting of breath. Another good practice is bhramari pranayam.

 

A very important thing to heal your breathing issues - Learn abdominal breathing. That means to use diaphragm for breathing....just as a new born baby breathes. With life's pressures and stresses, we mess up our breathing patterns. Google on this and you will get more info.

 

You are welcome. You can also try meditation on OM. Then you don't have to worry about the breath.

 

I tend to do just very simple anapanasati meditation, focusing on the sensations of the breath in and around the nostrils, just breathing very naturally, not trying to control or force anything.
Nice anselmo profile pic btw, stay sober, don't bury yourself in smoke before you meditate lel

 

I'm a meditator of close to 15 years now, and I'd say that this isn't really a problem. The objective of mindfulness meditation is to develop an awareness of your mind... this is all. So, whether you naturally breath or control the breath, whether your eyes are open or not, whether you are full lotus or lying on a bed, whether you sit rigidly still or allow yourself movement to itch your ass... the only concern is whether you are developing an awareness of your mind. Certain things can be helpful, i.e. lotus position, natural breathing etc. but they are not what meditation is about or for, they are literally just enablers. The only question for you - irrespective of everything else - is, when your mind wanders away into thought, do you, at some point, become aware of this? If you do - even if your mind wanders for 15 minutes at a time, then you are successfully meditating!

 

This is a very common thing people experience. Try searching r/meditation. I'm sure many people have posted about it. You can also have something else (pretty much anything) be the focus of your attention so long as you watch it with a sense of curiosity rather than expectation. Sounds, the way the air feels on your skin, the way light dances on an object. You can also try visualization techniques.