Meditation

meditation is a way to extricate awareness from identification with thought, or with clinging to out. The breath has no content to it at all; it's just the breath better for centring and quieting. Some thoughts you won't get rid of that way because they are in a web of stuff. But my strategy is to go for the mechanics first, and then go to the content later on. When some content seems ripe to pick off, like i've gone into psychoanalysis.