Starting to practice meditation, you should understand the following. Meditation itself is not a means, it is a goal, a result. Usually use the word - to meditate as the practice itself, as if a person sat down, closed his eyes and plunged into meditation. But in fact - this is the state that must be reached using various techniques. To come to this state, you need to make some effort.
A person cannot just take and experience a state of joy or sadness, or anger. Various thoughts lead him to these feelings. He may think of something funny and laugh, but the movement of the mind led to this joy.
The mind is always in motion. It moves from one polarity to another. Now something has caused your joy, in a minute, something has caused anger or sadness. Some thoughts, images, and the mind are identified with these emotions, these internal states, and the mind is identified with these images.
Meditation is a state without thoughts. That is why it is also called the stop of internal dialogue. The movement of the mind stops for a while and the energy that moved with the mind gathers at one point, and since it has nowhere to move, an explosion of consciousness occurs.
There are astronomical phenomena such as a supernova explosion, the birth of a supernova. The supernova burst is based on the process of thermonuclear fusion. For some time, a huge mass of energy accumulated at one point, and then at one moment a colossal amount of energy begins to break out, the star takes on a new birth in a new degenerated quality, in a fundamentally opposite state of being than before.
The same process takes place in the mind of a person who has experienced meditation. The energy that was spent on the movement of the mind, on the work of the mind, now gathers at one point, and a collapse arises in the body and consciousness - a super-precedent state.