How I meditate-
First I sit down, usually criss cross but sometimes normally if i am on the floor or something. Sometimes I will play rain and thunder in the background if it is a little loud, or if it is silent I will not have rain playing. Then I close my eyes and focus on my breathing. I start breathing 4-7-8 (inhale over 4 seconds, hold your breath over 7, exhale over 8, repeat) and focusing only on counting. After doing this a few times to where I feel neutral and I am not thinking of anything, I stop counting, still breathing in the same pattern but not counting for precisness. Then I start to imagine a place that I have actually though about for a while. It is a non-existant place of my own imagination. Most of it is a forest with deer, wolves, foxes, bunnies, squirrels, and other woodland creatures. There is a beautiful waterfall and lake. And the skies are dark, usually from rain or night or both. There is a gold door behind the waterfall with a person I talk to when I have problems and am meditating out of stress. It rains a lot and the aroma smells like a rainy day. Everything is quiet and peaceful, even the animals get along. When I go to this place in my head, at this point, I am no longer consciously in the real world, it is in the back of my mind and I do not think of where I am irl, i am no longer sitting on my bed with headphones on, I am playing with wolves or walking in the rain. Besides the one person behind the gold door, there are no people there. People often destroy places like that somehow. It is my place anyway, I would rather it not get crowded.

Why I do these things-
Sitting criss cross is just easiest because I do not move a lot or have to get comfortable. I play rain and thunder because it is very calming to me. If it is raining at night it is easier for me to fall asleep. I focus on counting so much because it helps me clear my mind, and breathing 478 is proven to help calm too. I try not to have any thoughts and clear my mind completely by counting. I still breath in a similar pattern afterwards or sometimes deep breaths because it calms me, but at this point I am focusing more on the place than counting. I go to the place because it is somewhere I can be me for a short while and just relax.