###### 🔑 Meditation can be either Presence-led or Parts-led When a [[🕯️ Meditation 🧘|Meditation]] is [[💡 Parts|Part]]-led, we are practicing or cultivating a skill or quality or enacting some kind of control over other [[💡 Parts|Parts]], such as with [[💡 Focus & Concentration#Effortful Concentration|Effortful Concentration]]. A [[💡 Protector Parts|Protector Part]] might also use [[🕯️ Meditation 🧘|Meditation]] as their chosen [[Protector Strategies 🛡️|Protector Strategy 🛡️]], to help us avoid [[⭐️ Emotions]] and wall off [[💡 Exiles|Exiles]] they don't trust us with, or for [[⭐️ Self-Regulation]]. This isn't a bad thing, [[🔑 we need Protectors]], it's just important to be aware of. When a [[🕯️ Meditation 🧘|Meditation]] is [[💡 Self-Leadership|Presence-Led]], it goes quite differently, it's more of a demonstration of [[Qualities of Presence ☀️]], such as with [[💡 Focus & Concentration#Effortless Concentration|Effortless Concentration]]. [^1]: