First, you want to find a nice quiet place, one that will allow you to think clearly and have a moment to yourself where you just relax and enjoy the peace and tranquility of your life and day. You can find a place, a corner perhaps, in your own house, in your room, something you can easily witness, something you can get away and have a moment in, and this way you can find a place where meditation can take place with ease and efficiency. You can find a place outside your home, too, maybe on the beach or seaside, or maybe in a secluded hotel room somewhere far away, somewhere like another country or maybe a quiet café or bookshop.

Anyway, once you choose a place you need to go there with your mind open and your stress turned off. This means, do not bring cell phones, or technological devices, no laptops, no computers, no anything that will distract you or keep you focused on your troubles or the stresses of your day, do not bring your work, do not bring your stresses or bills, leave them behind for this one hour where you will devote yourself to complete and utter relaxation and tense free time.

You can, however, bring a radio or CD player, and you can put in some nice easy instrumentals that make it calm, such as Enya or jungle beats or some other kinds of instrumental or soothing music that will put you at ease. This is not the time for your favorite Michael Jackson CD or your Beatles records, this is the time for reflective and calming sitars and flutes, or even noise CDs, like beach waves or the sound of falling rain or crackling fire or faraway chirping of Asian frogs, this is the time to have your mind escape the rigors of the world and the words and lyrics and stresses, and just fall into a kind of peaceful and tranquil stupor. » Read more: How To Meditate – A Practical Guide