Anyone interested in meditation might want to look at doing a Vipassana meditation course. The Vipassana course is free, world-wide, takes 12 days or so, (and so is a big commitment). You get fed for all that time to. I have gone about five or six times. It is difficult, but well worth it, and I could recommend that everyone do it at least once in the lifetime. The technique is the same as the one the Buddha used to reach Enlightenment.