Helps me fall asleep fast. But so does running through the relaxing individual body parts exercise. Maybe out of paranoia that I am missing something and I only

Helps me fall asleep fast. But so does running through the relaxing individual body parts exercise. Maybe out of paranoia that I am missing something and I only do it for 10 minutes a day. Oh, and good ideas come to me while I am trying not to focus on anything. Almost like the mind is trying to find an excuse to break single-point attention. edit: Also, meditation traditions are found all over the world - for example a Christian mystic, Teresa of Avila meditated all the time. edit 2 in reply to below: Sure, semantics, but you are definitely right to some degree. The difference is that the mechanism behind relaxation is clear.