I'd suggest that you have a look at Andrea Hess' videos on meditation (I mentioned these on another post - here are the links):
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Originally Posted by Mags  |
One thing that Andrea mentioned in these posts that I found very useful was that people often think that "success" in meditation involves achieving a state of absolutely no thoughts. However, meditation can help you to discipline your mind (which will help you with manifesting your intentions) - as such, "success" is more about increasing your ability to bring your mind back to present moment awareness by decreasing the amount of time it takes for you to notice your mind wandering off thinking all it's egoic thought.