Although I am very intuitive and open to energies, it is hard for me to disconnect from the world. I am often anxious and alerted to dangers. My thoughts go in my mind non-stop. Rarely is there quiet time. I am always analyzing and daydreaming about the future. So in meditations, I had trouble quieting my mind and getting to the next level. My biggest breakthrough was to get earmuffs in a hardware store - the ones for woodworkers.. and a comfortable sleep mask. I am sensitive to outside noises and dangers so for me it was important to be in a protected environment - like in a locked car or in a room, with my cell phone off (I use Mute Ringer on Android). So nothing disturbs me for the meditation. The first 10 minutes of meditation I allow my thoughts to calm down, then there is a moment when I shift to a no-thought state. I often go to Reiki and other energy healers. As they treated me, it was like an assisted meditation and I learned this path. This higher no-thought state, I call it Reiki state, is the state of meditation when you stop thinking in a way translatable to language. There is no words, and no images. You still have thoughts and do things there, but it is like a dream which can not be translated to our 3d language and imagery. It is all different. It is very much like a dream but it has a purpose. Usually my purpose by default is healing. Initially I invited my higher friends, spirit helpers, alien friends and angels to come and heal me. So I would say an invitation in my mind, "I invite my higher friends to heal me." This is it. Now I don't even say that, it goes without saying. Nowadays, I often invite my higher self to visit me and enter my body. It is also healing. Sometimes I invite other friendly spirits and aliens to come and enter my body, but more often that would be my higher self - essentially, myself, the rest of my spirit which is normally beyond the veil. Or you can say, that my Higher Self is my spirit father-mother, and he is also a child, or a great-great many times child of God. And we are great-great many times children of God. Therefore, I am inviting my soul to come and be in my body more fully. It feels like a buss. It usually start from toes, and fingers and fills all the body. I can consciously help it to enter. The last thing which is still under my own guidance is the breath. I imagine that I am inflating my body with the spirit energy, like golden-silver-white energy, and with each breath I inflate more and more, so it fills with the spirit buss. Then I basically step aside and enjoy the trip. Sometimes I ask specific questions, or put in a specific intention. Meditation is a nap with intention.