Calm down dear - Meditation

Meditation is something I'm sure we've all heard of, but not everyone takes it seriously (there's the classic stereotype of someone sitting in the Lotus position and humming loudly). I must admit I had my doubts, but it can be an effective tool to explore your spirituality, moreover, it may be able to make you feel better about life as a whole.

Now don't get me wrong - I'm no expert. However I believe I've reached a meditative state of mind several times in my life.
        I'd like to think I've found inner peace, however I know deep down this isn't really true. At times though, when I'm meditating, reading about some incredible new scientific discovery, or just listening to a spine chilling piece of music, I get a snippet of calm & a nanosecond of realisation where I am the very Universe itself and all energy, matter & eternity plays out in my head before my mind returns to the Earth*.
*Your experience may vary!
 
For me, sometimes just taking a step back out of your own brain, even for a femtosecond, can bring comfort; seeing the whole of which you're a part, or even seeing the whole that IS you if you believe that can bring some clarity to your thoughts and order your mind.

All you really need to do meditation is time and focus. What you get out of it will depend on what you put in and may also depend on your own preconceptions. Easiest meditation technique I've found is the breathing technique, but there are plenty of others out there.

The object of mediation is to clear the mind of all extraneous thought, what I like to with the breathing technique is imagine all the clutter in my head being swept up on the intake of your breath and forced out when you exhale. This has proven a fairly effective way of clearing your mind (can also help with sleep too) or certainly my mind at any rate.

I'm sorry if this goes over peoples heads or they don't understand what I'm getting at.
There's so much more I want to explain - maybe writing a book is in order, but for the moment, you'll have to do with a single statement of explanation.

"I am the Universe, you are the Universe, we are the Universe, we are legion"

N