There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.

Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.

Tantra won't work unless you've been trapped by spirituality. You have to be trapped by spirituality before you can be liberated from it.

If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.

If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.