No principles/teachings are required.
Take meditation as a Puja(worship),a meeting with God.Be eager to meet Him as you are always eager to meet a loved one(mother,child and so on).When you are eager to meet the loved one,the mind never interferes.Even hours spent with loved ones appear to be a few minutes.
To start with,you need not even sit,or keep the spine straight and so on.You just lie down on mat or may be in your bed.Close you eyes.Relax each part,rather each cell of your body. .Find yourself surrounded by white light.Leave the body on its own,as we do in Shavasana(corpus pose),or as if body has been thrown down from the first floor window.
Gradually body will sink in the bed/mat.Let it.Keep watching the state of the body.Keep enjoying the relaxation of the cells.Soon you will have a feeling which you have not had since years.
There is no use of mind here.You have voluntarily thrown youself out of window.Enjoy where it goes/sinks.Do not lose your awareness.Your breathing will take care of itself.It will become slow and rhythemic as you sink in the bed/mat.
Try it sincerely.Do not make it a burden.Enjoy it like like a child's play.
Note that nothing is easier than reaching a meditative state.Unfortunately some Gurus have complicated the path so that we join classes and courses for it.
Meditation is your natural state.It is a journey from yourself to yourself;from your outer self to your inner self.Let us not complicate it by laying down rules and regulations,which are products of logical/educated mind which has no role to play in it. Once you get used to it,you can start doing it in sitting position.Get back to me,if further guidance nedded.
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