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Itches while sitting - how do people deal with it? I can't be doing with all this 'focus on the itch' crap and always just scratch the itch, but as I do it I make sure that I am fully present and focusing on my arm and hand reaching, my nail scratching the skin etc.

I think the problem for me is that while sitting I'd rather breathe 'randomly,' and not in through the nose and out of the mouth each time ('randomly' meaning i.e. in through the mouth and out of both nose and mouth, or in through both and out of one or the other etc.), and I feel that I get to...

Concentrating on breathing (as you are supposed to do) or counting the breaths has a completely adverse affect on my ability to clear my mind. The moment I stop concentrating on my breathing my mind is clear and there is almost no thinking. I appreciate that this probably flies in the face of...