Want to learn how to meditate?

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I have tried various methods.  The simplest is just laying down in bed and imaging my feet falling through the mattress. Slowly moving my attention up the body until all the body sinks deep into the mattress.  It doesn't feel good.  The skin feels like its turning into concrete during the process. My face feels pain when it enters that stage. Often the breath is the last sensation I have to my body.  Letting go of that is difficult.  If successful, I get a high frequency bong then boom. I enter a realm that is totally empty but full of energy.  The realm is the atman. Out of thousands of attempts I have only entered a few times.

Have you returned from that 'realm' with the wisdom of the ages?

It all sounds like a lot of bother for nothing.