What exactly am I doing when I meditate?

[Cat]

Is meditation just a method for improving my ability to focus or is there something more to it than that?

Edited April 30, 2020 by Cat
grammar error

[Javfly33]

You are trying to understand what the hell is reality and what in the hell story have you told yourself to explain why you are here. 

[Rilles]

learning by observation how your mind functions and who you are, whoever invented meditation was an absolute genius btw