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I thought the meditation we tried was really interesting.  The more conscious I became of my breath and my breathing, the faster I breathed.  I understand how this could be relaxing and freeing, but I began to wonder whether or not everyone actually has the ability to meditate.  I could focus on my breathing and nothing else, but even within the realm of breathing I thought that there was a lot to think about.  Is that "allowed"?  Or should the only focus be the concept of the air moving in one place, through another, and out a third?  Is it the breathing we're focusing on- however deep, shallow, quick, slow, loud, soft-- or the motion of the breathing, conceptualizing the air?  Does everyone naturally over think what seems to be such simple, basic instructions? Perhaps this suggests a pattern- I for one over think, and overanalyze more often than not- perhaps this is just the lens I come to see everything with, and perhaps we all enter each experience- such as meditation- with our own lens, which can help- or perhaps hinder- our meditation experience. Or, perhaps this overanalyzing is a protection mechanism to avoid the connection meditation can form?