A nice meditation and breathing exercise: Sit next to a tree. Close your eyes if you want to. Take long slow breathes in and out of your nose. As you exhale, feel the tree breathe in your carbon dioxide. As you breath in, feel the tree exhale oxygen. Do not see the human and the tree as separate, instead watch the one life force that moves between them. Move your body and mind steadily between the life giving inhale and the deathly void of the exhale. Do this until you see the two as one and no longer have a preference for either.
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I play piano. I don't practice, I play. I play to hear the pleasing sounds, not to 'get better' although a byproduct of playing regularly is improvement. When I'm playing, the whole world is tuned out, I see the keys but my mind is focused on the sounds and tonal intervals . I make a lot of mistakes but am nuetral towards them, I simply play parts again and again until it sounds 'right' and I enjoy the process of finding the right notes. I don't read any music or play covers, I just pick a key and use the circle of fifths to improvise melodies and chord progressions into something meaningful and pleasing to my ears.