There are many techniques how to meditate. Let’s make arrangement straight away: meditation in some appearance or another seems (as usual the "lotus" position seems to be classical) is just an item of any culture. The methods and techniques of meditation correspond quite another thing than the defined body position. The most characteristic techniques of meditation as a formal experience developed somewhere in the East in places allying China and Japan. So the defined body position is the traditional tribute but none plus ultra. Far more important your ability to concentrate, to relax and you own feelings and result of meditation.Let’s refer to some modern western authors who use the meditation techniques in their practice, such as Louise Hay for example. All of them want you to train your aptitude of concentration and coming in contact with your subconscious mind. It is very important to feel physically comfortable in the course of meditation. So get off back the "lotus", sit upright in a comfortable chair.
So the participation of meditation normally implicate sitting quietly in an existence where you testament not be disturbed. As usual people prefer to close their eyes. Then you should focus on the respiration for some minutes to relax. When abstractive thoughts enter your brain - and it is "when," not "if" these thoughts come - it is first-rate to let them be without judgment. You should observe without focusing on them or allowing them to transgress your meditation practice. Trying to observe, admit and approve anything taking place in your mind the central tendency of the meditation. Meditation can be perfectly natural. The exclusive rule: "Where your attention is, there you are".
You may concentrate on a specific question and go without it. You’d better start with free meditation. Approve your thoughts let your subconscious mind lead you. Don’t analyse! Feel the silence and rest. If it becomes difficult to find the silence or rest with it, try repeating the sound "om" or "um", pronounce the word within your mind. If you are still thinking, please, don't get chewed up about that. This is normal as a preliminary. You will surely get the necessary feel time after time. It just takes practice.
Try to practice your meditation daily for about 15 to 20 minutes in the evening or early in the morning. Meditation can endure from uncommon minutes to countless hours. But first you need practice, don’t oblige yourself. Make it a special habit, a part of your daily routine and you routine will become unrecognizable.