What exactly are your thoughts when you meditate?
A lot of times it takes me hours to fall asleep.

I sometimes have thoughts, but I control them. I am able to calm my entire system down and shut out outside forces and inner forces.

I learned as a kid with swimming and with playing games with the town kids.

When one is racing around or even thinking, one is having action. One of the things I was always taught as a child was to count sheep, except that did not always work for me. Sometimes music would put me to sleep if my mind was too active. Yanni's music and classical music seems to soothe things for me, and can put me in a restful state. Meditation music will often put me into the lull of being asleep but yet awake. Not sure how to explain it. Often when I have spent time posting, I would put on meditation music as I posted and thus the outside world would not affect me nearly as much with each post, but yet, held onto my calm and could share with others the bulk of what I do.

I hope this helps and that I didn't make things more confusing!

I did also train my kids like my mom trained us, each time we were at the Doctor's office, I had them reading and then each of us feel asleep as we waited. One time we go so quiet in the exam room because all 5 of us fell asleep, that the Doctor and nurses thought we had left. The door was closed and it had gotten so quiet so they thought we left. That day and a fe wother times, we got forgotten about and our doc appointments took like 4-5 hours because they forgot us! 😎