Depends on the form of meditation. For general, workplace-endorsed "mindfulness" meditation, you allow yourself to think whatever you think, but instead of reacting to it, you merely observe and acknowledge that you're having that thought. You don't let yourself get carried along with it though. You let it pass and let another thought come along, observing your own mind. Other types of meditation are about striving to think nothing, and it's expected that you'll fail, and take years to accomplish that after a great deal of practice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

workplace-endorsed "mindfulness" meditation

That sounds pretty dismissive. It's very sad that capitalism co-opts these things to squeeze out even more energy from workers, and that people think this is just something PR or HR or whatever came up with.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and similar techniques (e.g. autogenic training) are effective and empirically proven methods to combat depression, eating disorders, chronic pain, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Every mediation final goal is to achieve tranquility of mind which is only possible if mind is in present and when you quietly listen to inner voice without reacting, it slowly start fading away and meditator goes in one of the jhanas state

[–] x4740N 4 points 1 year ago

https://www.meditationoasis.com/how-to-meditate/difficulty-meditating

This link also explains some of what I went over with my other comment response to you and a few other things

[–] x4740N 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With meditation you stop resisting any voice in your head and thoughts

They eventually will go away on their own if you don't resist

You do also need to be comfortable, relaxed and in a distraction free environment

Dim your lights and turn off any bright sources of light that keep your body awake

Edit: practicing meditation does also help as well because it does get easier to do over time if you practice