We often conflate meditation  with concentration or contemplation.

Briefly, we can say that concentration is primarily objective. It is the focusing of attention upon sense stimuli.

When you are listening or reading intensively you are focusing your consciousness upon a certain set of vibrations coming to you through a particular receptive organ, such as the eyes or ears.

Contemplation is by contrast subjective.

The consciousness is focused in reason, recollection, imagination, in other words, on ideas already in the consciousness or being reassembled into a new arrangement.

Both in concentration and in contemplation the will is necessary. They are not passive states.

True meditation is often erroneously interchanged as a word with these other mental processes but actually is quite different.

The objective in meditation is not to focus the attention on anything in particular. In meditation you are endeavouring to change the level of consciousness.

You are attempting to use another state of consciousness but you do not anticipate what shall manifest. In meditation you hold no limited thought definitely in mind as in contemplation.

Consciousness may be likened unto a piano keyboard. It consists of a series of octaves or levels, one merging into the other.

At the lowest level is that form of consciousness which we most commonly use, namely, the objective.

Just above that is the subjective with its various processes—reasoning, memory, and so on—which we have mentioned.

Beyond these two levels are many more.

Psychology has assigned to the whole stream of consciousness beyond these many names, such as the preconscious, unconscious, and subconscious.

True meditation is the purpose to reach one or more of these other levels of awareness.

Another analogy can be used for better explanation, that of a staircase. Ordinarily in our consciousness we alternate from the first step – the objective, to the second step – the subjective, on this staircase of consciousness.

In fact, we have learned that there are many more steps above these two which we perhaps have not yet experienced.

Meditation is the desire to attain and to experience these subliminal states of mind.

The images, the sensations that may be had would be quite different in various ways than what we ordinarily perceive objectively and subjectively.

In fact, so-called intuition, or insight, is flashes of realisation coming from one of these other levels of consciousness.

So, consequently, the purpose of meditation is to bring about a transition in consciousness so that through that change we can reach into the higher levels of the mind.

How is this transition of consciousness, or meditation, to be attained?

There is no universal,  precise formula. There are numerous methods which can be practised and which may often have origins in various Eastern religions, mystical and metaphysical systems. No matter which technique is used, true meditation has nothing to do with self-hypnosis or a trance-like states.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT 

If success is cheap, everyone would have been successful ; 

If the road to success was straight many would have been enjoying success long ago.* 

*But am sorry, it is not !  If you are expecting your dreams to come through cheaply, then you need a change of mind*

*Success is not for people who give up easily, it is not for lazy people, it is not for people who give excuses.*

*Success comes to men and women who are dedicated.*

It is only *success* that can turn your mockers into your *workers*

Show me a man who never takes *risks* and i will show  you a man who never *accomplishes* a thing.

*Poverty* does not die by fire. It dies by a *calculated hardwork*

It takes the *rolling* of a *dice* to cast  a *six*

Nothing is worst than missing an *opportunity* that would have *changed your life*

Don't be a *poor* man who *P* ass *O* ver *O* opportunity *R* egularly. 

When you see people who are making money *genuinely* join them 

Too much of *analysis* leads to *paralysis* 

The more *excuses* you make the *lesser* money in your *pocket.*

Be wise 

Be part of the opportunity.