I read somewhere that mediation means medicine for the mind and I really like this description.
Well, I could quote multiple meanings for meditation, write down different types of meditations. All of which are great in themselves but you, dear soul, can find them on the internet using mighty Google by typing the question.
What I describe here is my personal point of view what meditation is and how I see/feel it. Please note, it is my subjective opinion/feeling from my experience with meditation but hope it will resonate with you.
There is one common thing about the meditation practice, if we are speaking about the meditation in the general common meaning (I will explain later what I mean by not common meaning). One practicing meditation needs to find time and place to do it. You can start from a few minutes and extend as you progress to a longer time. From a personal point of view, things might be wobbly at the beginning, if you are a person who has or had 1000 thoughts per second (me 
) and canāt sit down for long in one place.
In short description, we sit down, often close our eyes to not be distracted, and focus on the inside of ourself, sometimes being guided (in guided meditation).
My breakthrough moment was discovering the truth about one of the myths about meditation: "in meditation you don't think." But In reality, meditation isn't about putting your head down and not thinking. My vision of meditation has always been in complete silence, like that of a monk at a temple. I was fighting with the thoughts aiming to push them away, so I could not sit in one place constantly fighting.
Well, if you are a monk in a temple and sit for hours meditating, I am sure you achieve the stages of total silence for a prolonged period of time. Due to the fast-paced nature of society, the amount of work, chores and family responsibilities we have, and the fact we meditate for a shorter period of time per day, it may not be so easy to achieve silence. But still possible (with practice)
To achieve this silent state, you might ask where the keys are. And here my friends, the answer is vague. We are complex beings who have had different experiences throughout our lives and have different "operating systems," which need to be tapped into during mediation.
But there are common things among all the practices:
Breath - is a permanent thing that stays through all your life, you always inhale and exhale. The breath can be a way to centre yourself and redirect thoughts by simply repeating "I'm breathing inā, āI'm breathing out" a few times and watching your breath. For some of you, this might be boring, but over time boredom can become a habit that you can use when your eyes are open and you are flooded with thoughts. You simply repeat in your head āI am breathing in; I am breathing outā and the mind and body can recollect a relaxed state of meditation (this is a part I call not common meditation, meditation with open eyes during your normal life).
Awareness ā awareness is nothing more than being mindful of the thoughts which come to our mind during meditation. You may think about what happened yesterday or what you have to do next after you finish meditating. There is nothing wrong with those thoughts, it is natural that the mind thinks. The key here is not to be afraid of the thoughts (as Mooji says) allow them to just be projections on the screen of consciousness, when there is fire on the screen you are not getting burned. Simply aiming not to engage with the thought and not going into the story. I will give you an example. During meditation a thought comes in āI have dinner at 3 pmā. In simple terms, our role here is to acknowledge the thought and ignore it or as they say, "let go". By doing this, chances that this thought causes any reaction to your emotions or body will be limited or none. It becomes just a sensation. However, when the thought comes in āWe have dinner at 3 pmā and you react to it and continue with the story āShould we get a takeaway, go to a restaurant or cook, Letās do take away but which oneā¦.ā and so on. Clearly in the second scenario you get yourself into a story and chances are that the mind will start pressing a button of emotions (i.e. doubts, anxiety whether this a correct choice, will I like the mealā¦.) or body reaction (i.e your muscles start to get tense). So, it is not about stopping to think, just allow the thoughts to flow. There might be hundreds of them passing by, we just allow them to float like clouds.
In mind language, this is what meditation is . But meditation is not about understanding it, it is about feeling it, when you reach a stage of unconditional love via meditation, time stops to exist. You are grateful just for your existence.
You reach a state of mind, body, emotions, soul being in perfect peaceful and happy harmony with each other and in the same harmony with the surrounding world, people, universe, everything.
It is the feeling that everything is in the right place at this specific moment, nothing needs changing, there is no must do, there is no ego.
Everything is one, there is extreme joy of being for just being, everything is simple, there is no need to ask questions as you feel the answers (not knowing it is more than knowing). In this particular moment, you love everything and everybody, even people who hurt you before for one or the other reason, this is not important. There is no judging or categorizing, full acceptance and need to share this feeling with everything and everybody so they can feel with you the same happiness and have extreme joy from this existence. Interesting is that you do not think only about yourself at this moment, as you know inside that sharing and giving this unconditional love will increase this feeling even further for you and everyone else. I believe people call this being one.
Namaste
) and canāt sit down for long in one place. Breath - is a permanent thing that stays through all your life, you always inhale and exhale. The breath can be a way to centre yourself and redirect thoughts by simply repeating "I'm breathing inā, āI'm breathing out" a few times and watching your breath. For some of you, this might be boring, but over time boredom can become a habit that you can use when your eyes are open and you are flooded with thoughts. You simply repeat in your head āI am breathing in; I am breathing outā and the mind and body can recollect a relaxed state of meditation (this is a part I call not common meditation, meditation with open eyes during your normal life).
Awareness ā awareness is nothing more than being mindful of the thoughts which come to our mind during meditation. You may think about what happened yesterday or what you have to do next after you finish meditating. There is nothing wrong with those thoughts, it is natural that the mind thinks. The key here is not to be afraid of the thoughts (as Mooji says) allow them to just be projections on the screen of consciousness, when there is fire on the screen you are not getting burned. Simply aiming not to engage with the thought and not going into the story. I will give you an example. During meditation a thought comes in āI have dinner at 3 pmā. In simple terms, our role here is to acknowledge the thought and ignore it or as they say, "let go". By doing this, chances that this thought causes any reaction to your emotions or body will be limited or none. It becomes just a sensation. However, when the thought comes in āWe have dinner at 3 pmā and you react to it and continue with the story āShould we get a takeaway, go to a restaurant or cook, Letās do take away but which oneā¦.ā and so on. Clearly in the second scenario you get yourself into a story and chances are that the mind will start pressing a button of emotions (i.e. doubts, anxiety whether this a correct choice, will I like the mealā¦.) or body reaction (i.e your muscles start to get tense). So, it is not about stopping to think, just allow the thoughts to flow. There might be hundreds of them passing by, we just allow them to float like clouds.