Good write-up. IME, you can meditate enough that you can sometimes consciously choose to slow time down to devote more and more attention to something. The key

Good write-up. IME, you can meditate enough that you can sometimes consciously choose to slow time down to devote more and more attention to something. The key advantage of this is you can jumpstart a flywheel: attention -> unmediated effort -> attention. I say unmediated because your talking mind gets out of the way or helps you (versus never shutting up). I have used this during guitar practice sessions and found them both very enjoyable and helpful in the learning process.