Proper way to meditate

[BrownEye]

My first "noticeable" success at meditation came while spacing off. I was rebuilding some tooling at work and let my mind roam. I am used to the "routine" of building and did not have to apply thought to what I was doing, and instead the mind just wandered about with considerations. Suddenly concepts started to hit me with force, and my head first started to tingle, then started to hurt on the inside, like a burning pain.

I called that a success because it was a sort of meditational state where I was not actively forcing thoughts to run through my mind, and I received instant results.

Now if only I could consciously acheive this.