Embodied said: “a)When i focus on breathing there are very few thoughts arising.”
Is that a good thing?
The goal of meditation is a calm mind, not a mind devoid of thoughts.
The mind should be devoid of BAD thoughts (with greed, hate, or ignorance); that is what makes the mind calm in the long term. It happens when one stops such BAD thoughts from arising. That is Anapana or Satipatthana.
One should be able to think much clearer about Dhamma concepts (i.e., GOOD thoughts) when in meditation.