Meditation helps you attain a level of peace through mental stability, clarity in thinking, better health, grounds you emotionally, and resets your directive towards contentment. Meditation takes you away from the outside senses and internal thought patterns that monopolizes all your time and energy, and refocuses inward. The object of meditation is to return to that early state of pure existence you were in before all the words took control. There are many meditation techniques, and depending on how much mental activity each one has determines the difficulty. The hardest method looks at no mental activity, no decoys for the mind, and is considered the quickest most efficient way, and that is called “Nisarga Yoga” the natural way. You can't use the mind in meditation and expect it, to take you beyond itself. Next in line to that is “Simplified Kundalini Yoga” which uses the enhanced energy of the body, which is directed and focused on by the mind, and you observe it without thinking. When you meditate with consistency you gradually disassociate with what you are observing, because in life you are not what you observe. You are the observer of the energy that flows through the body and mind, during those thoughtless states of observation, which means you are before the body and mind. In the beginning, meditations that have mantras and other mental pacifiers are easier and useful in holding the minds attention, but eventually when you get better you still have to drop all the decoys. Then there is nothing but energy (consciousness) flowing through the body that you are witnessing. And since that has no form or color, it is the last but most subtle attention getter, which also needs to be shed. After leaving all mental supports behind that held your attention, and you stabilize in your beingness, this is what they call the “Samadhi State”. This is a state in meditation which is the closest representative to your Eternal state of being while embodied. In thoughtless meditation the only thing that comes between you and that heavenly state is the pure witness, which observes the energy, and experiences life as the doer. In the Samadhi State your not even aware of your body, mind or energy, only an awareness of being prevails. The aim of meditation is to return to that state as often as possible until it becomes second nature, and wait for the metaphoric doors to open resulting in Self-realization (enlightenment). When the doer (ego) and the witness are continually ignored like that, then over the long haul something happens, they disappear with the rest of the universe. You find yourself in Eternity, face to face with the Almighty. You realize what you really are, and at the same time you realize what God is, what and where Eternity is, what the universe is, and you realize they are all, one of the same. In your most natural Aware state of existing your enlightened with the truth, the search ends, and a new perspective matures within you. A point of view that is no longer limited by the body and mind, and you can see life with clarity and detachment. This enlightened point of view changes the way you see life, you then loose all your petty unfulfilling desires, and fears of the unknown in its wake.