The Importance of Meditation

[Infinite Unity]

I am beginning to see meditation as a sort of mental exercise.  Where the body is naturally not constantly active and thus requires motion to exercise, the mind is ALWAYS active, and so exercise for it comes in the form of stilling that activity and maintaining stillness.

Silence is ambient stillness to me~

I could definitely agree to what your saying here, but one of the aspects is definitely about finding the true self, or the one that is doing the thinking.