We live a lot in our heads, our worries and fears. Meditation involves settling back into the support offered by the breath-in-the-body and getting a feel for the right balance there.  This allows us to stay in touch with where we are,  which balances the thinking mind’s preoccupation with who we are, with doing and with how we appear. 

Living calls for the art of the wrestler, not the dancer

Staying on your feet is all; 

there is no need for pretty steps

Marcus Aurelius