There are many ways to meditate. Here is an excerpt about meditation practice from: A Path with Heart By Jack Kornfield

From our first sitting and the necessary healing that we encounter in practice, we gradually open to a new and unfamiliar ground. There may come altered states, or there may not, but eventually what we have been seeking all along is found here, in the moment we come to rest, in our essential self, our Buddha nature or basic goodness. It is discovered when we are quite present, yet not seeking a thing, when we have come to rest in this moment.

There then appears a sense of wholeness and integrity, or strength and beauty. That which we were running around the world seeking is here at our door, Over and over again we learn this simplicity.

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This is meditation: to resume our true nature and discover an enormous sense of rest and peace, a spaciousness in our heart in the midst of life; to allow ourselves to become transparent to the light that is always shining.

"It is not far away", says one Zen master. "It is nearer than near."

This is not a matter of changing anything but of not grasping anything, and of opening our eyes and our heart.