All worlds, real and imaginary, all meditations of any technique, all are distraction.
Who is it that is having this experience?
From this POV mediation is the practice of discerning illusion from being. E.g.:
"I have a body but I am not my body."
"I have emotions but I am not my emotions."
"I have mind but I am not my mind."
"I have will but I am not my will."
As you discern and give up attachment to subtler and subtler aspects of what had seemed to be "you" something great happens.
The key is to ask, "Who is it that is having this experience?"
All worlds, real and imaginary, all meditations of any technique, all are distraction.
Who is it that is having this experience?
From this POV mediation is the practice of discerning illusion from being. E.g.:
"I have a body but I am not my body."
"I have emotions but I am not my emotions."
"I have mind but I am not my mind."
"I have will but I am not my will."
As you discern and give up attachment to subtler and subtler aspects of what had seemed to be "you" something great happens.
The key is to ask, "Who is it that is having this experience?"