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Meditation occurs in a certain vibrational range, and so the first step is always to situate the mind in that range.

A Hertz (Hz) = 1 beat per second. The vibrational levels of the brain are:

Delta (0.5 - 3 Hz -- deep sleep, relaxation, meditation, brain repair),

Theta (4 - 7 Hz -- drowsiness, light sleep, creativity, intuition, emotional processing),

Alpha (8 - 13 Hz -- awake but relaxed, daydreaming, meditation, mood improvement),

Beta (14 - 30 Hz -- active thinking, problem-solving, alertness.

Gamma (30+ Hz -- focused attention, perception, higher cognitive functions, complex thinking).

To meditate we want to be in alpha, but what happens in meditation is that the state lapses. The problem is to be relaxed witjhout being either distracted or beginning to fall asleep. EEG readings show that good meditation has primarily alpha with some theta and some beta occuring at the same time. Before you get up on the cam of it, the state has to be impelled without effort, since effort would detract from the relaxation necessary to involve the theta and even delta levels for robust meditation.

Elsewhere in this website, the analogy of the skateboard was used, but it applies here as well. You kick the skateboard to get it going, then you put both feet on it and it goes by itself. Relaxing is pretty easy, but there must be energy to sustain the relaxed state without falling asleep. To kick the skateboard of meditation, you focus, concentrate, with extreme intensity, on any object.. In fact, you concentrate so intensely that the brain waves are in gamma, and you hold that as long as you can, then you hold it some more, then you deliberately let go and relax while the mind unfolds as it uses the power which you have gathered. This is the meditation state.