Proper way to meditate

[kycahi]

Welcome to your new crowd of friends, Kiron. We have posted some ideas about meditation in threads fairly recently, but I don't know if you can tell where they are by their subject.

I just found a nice beginner's guide to meditation from the Kaiser Permanente website. Here is the introduction:

Meditation can elicit the relaxation response. It has two essential components:

• Focusing your mind by concentrating on your breathing or a repetitive word, image or prayer.
  
• Taking a detached, non-judging observer's view of the thoughts that go through your mind.
  

The rest is on their website here.