Meditation is the art of being aware or enlightened, the ability to achieve total focus without distraction from the brain/mind, or outside influences.
Meditation is defined as being totally aware/totally focused and at peace.
Whatever action and thought the mind is focused on is known as being totally aware in meditation. For example: "Watching your breath" is meditation; listening to rain is meditation, even walking is a meditation if done with total focus and dedication.
Another example of this is involuntary meditation is called “Daydreaming”, which we all have experienced or been called a” Daydreamer”. So, the act of daydreaming further demonstrates Total Focus Mind-fullness and expands on the concept that Involuntary Meditation is a natural form of Meditation.
 
As long as these activities are free from any other distraction to the mind, it will be an effective meditative process. Many people may consider meditation as worship, prayer or used for spiritual and religious practices, but not only limited to these concepts and processes.
Meditation is not only a technique; it is a state of consciousness or being.
A state when the mind is free from scattered thoughts and also, being observed consciously by the individual.
It is a state reached when one becomes as the “Observer”, (one who is doing the meditation) and realizes that all the activity of the mind is focused to one idea or one thought.
 
 
Some Misconceptions about Meditation
 
Misconception: #1.
Meditation is when you turn off your thoughts or make your mind go blank.
The Truth:
Meditation is focusing your thoughts to a single point or a single purpose/idea.
 
Misconception: #2.
Meditation is difficult and requires great concentration.
The Truth:
Meditation is easy to learn and practice. Meditation may be difficult when we are too concerned with doing it correctly or incorrectly. Although, staying focussed in meditation does become easier with time and practice.
 
Meditation (Relaxation and Stress Release)
There are many types of meditation. The one definition that fits almost all types is..."Consciously directing your attention to alter your Waking Consciousness and Altered States of Consciousness."
There's no limit to the things you can direct your attention toward... symbols, sounds, colours, breath, uplifting thoughts, spiritual realms, etc. Meditation is simply about attention and where you direct it.
Traditionally meditation was (and still is) used for spiritual growth. More recently, meditation has become a valuable tool for finding a peaceful oasis of relaxation and stress relief in a demanding and fast-paced life.

Other uses include:

• Healing
• Emotional cleansing & balancing
• Deepening concentration & insight
• Manifesting change
• Developing intuition
• Unlocking creativity
• Exploring higher realities
• Finding inner guidance

 
What can be achieved via meditation:

•  Calmness and control of your life
•  Keeping you healthy and fit
•  Feelings of true happiness, peace and harmony can be achieved
•  Turn off a busy mind
•  Think clearly in moments of stress
•  Control anger and aggression
•  Focus in the now, in this moment
•  Let go of the past and the future
•  Gain control over your mind, body and spirit

• Fear is an emotional response to an actual threat, and it’s a fundamental survival mechanism.  
• Immediate danger: fear tells you to get yourself to someplace safer.
• Once our ancestors saw a few friends and relatives devoured by lions, fearing lions became a smart move.
• Fear is also a true emotional response when we’re about to lose someone or something that’s important to us.
• Fear the loss of a loved one to illness, or our home due to unemployment.
•  Sensation people experience in the face of taking action to achieve their dreams; not true fear.
• It’s F.E.A.R.

 
What is F.E.A.R?
 

• F.E.A.R. is an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real.
• There’s no true threat of immediate physical danger
• No threat of a loss of someone or something close to us.
• F.E.A.R. is an illusion.
• Something we fabricate in our own minds and pretend is real.
• It’s a Movie Drama we tell ourselves that keeps us from doing what we really want.
• False evidence appearing real.
• F.E.A.R is anxiety, an emotion that arises purely from our own thoughts, not external reality.
• Cognitive psychology research demonstrates that while we can’t always control how we feel, we do have the power to choose how we think and act.                                                                                                                  

 How to Conquer Fear?

• “Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance. What a waste.” ~Seth Godin
• Are past failures real evidence for future failure?
• No, because unless you keep doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting different results (i.e., insanity).
• No real evidence that your next approach will fail.
• Past failures generate false evidence appearing real. 
• It’s likely you learned things from your past failures that instead provide evidence that your odds are now better than ever.
• Worst-case scenario, involves those who’ve never failed, because they’ve never tried.
• These people have zero real evidence of anything, and are living in the purest imaginary prison of the mind.
• Healthy and well-adjusted people take risks, without all this deep dread over specific outcomes.
• The journey is what you’ll relish, and it just might take you somewhere better than you initially hoped. 
• Each journey teaches you what you need to know to take the next one.
•  The formula for conquering F.E.A.R. is simple:
• BE-DO-HAVE
• BE the person you choose to BE
• Do the things/Actions that this person does
• HAVE all the success, opportunities and possibilities.