There are many different ways to learn how to meditate. Which one you choose will depend a lot on your personality type and how patient - or impatient - you are.

Breathing Meditation

This is one of the easiest ways to learn to meditate. Since you're reading this, it's a safe assumption that you already know how to breathe. Breathing meditating just takes this a stage further. Typically this kind of meditation uses a CD or MP3 to talk you through what to do - often known as a guided meditation. There's usually some kind of backing music as well, sometimes in the form of chimes or "new age" music and sometimes it can take the form of natural sounds, such as waves breaking on a beach. The idea of these guided meditation tracks is to get you to relax, concentrate on your breathing and generally unwind.

Mindfulness Meditation

This is an ancient Buddhist technique and involves you in concentrating on your awareness of either your body or things happening around you. You focus on the "now" or present time. Everything else is either in the past, in which case you can't change it, or the future in which case it is yet to come. This takes practice - often over many years - but can bring about profound changes in your life.

Binaural Beats Meditation

My favorite kind! It involves the least effort of any type of meditation process that I've come across and is as simple as pressing the play button on your iPod or CD player. The binaural beats then go through a process known as brain entrainment. This takes your brain into a deep meditative state and allows you to reach a state of deep meditation in a matter of minutes, even if you've never meditated before.