Meditation is turning the attention from the usual preoccupations of life,... one's thoughts, feelings, and sensations/perceptions ,toward Consciousness Itself, the awareness or Ultimate Identity in Whom all these experiences a rise.

There are basically two ways of meditation.  One is to " be mindful " or aware of  Who is observing whatever arises in Consciousness, not as a separate personal identity but as Awareness ItSelf.  Who is " watching the movie ", experiencing the ongoing flow phenomena? Who am " I " beyond the experience? The point is not to define a separate individual identity  (the mind's usual habit) but to realize that there is no personal " Self ", only "the movie " and Consciousness Itself . . . not " my Consciousness " but One Omnipresent Awareness.

The second way to meditate is to choose a focus of attention like the breath, a mantra, and inner tone, a revered image, or that a ineffable inner knowing of  Truth ItSelf, pure Love , and then gently but persistently bring the attention back to this focus when it wanders.  The point here is not the struggle to stay on the focus, as attention will very naturally wonder, but to establish a  " home base " for that wondering and to practice " coming home " each time one  realizes s/he has again drifted off.  This " home base " will eventually become identified with the seat (throne) of Consciousness Itself.

Each way of meditating eventually reveals that there is only the stream of consciousness, full phenomena, and " home ", " the Omnipresent One,  Universal Awareness,... " I Am "( without the words,) in each and all.  And when that " I " sees ItSelf as the Divine, here now, it sees a reflection of the world in ItSelf, on whatever scale of vision one sees as his or her world.

 Ultimately, as one's sense of separate identity is, by grace, surrendered, the Seer and the seen become One in compassionate, loving transcendence.

I Am/ We Are/ the Divine Is ...One...Consciousness ItSelf...Here, Now and Omnipresent!