Hi Logan,
Is there any meditation centre around where you live, of any kind? Where you could go and learn to meditate, have somebody to guide you.. and do it together with others in a group, which can be motivating…
Don’t know if that is an option.. Where i live, unfortunately, there is no such thing, i would love to, cause it could be so helpful.

Me too for a long time i struggled with ‘how to meditate’, and i was trying it but probably not in the best way. I’m not saying that i’m great at it now.
But what helped me a lot, was to do a meditation course. In my case it was a Vipassana course, 10 days of only meditating. After 2 courses i’ve started to grasp a little bit what to do, and i found it more helpful to experience it rather than just reading from a book or listening to a tape. Of course there are many other meditation courses, perhaps that could help to get started with it to do something like that.

Good luck with your meditation, it can be a long process but i feel it’s definitely worth it, my life is so much better thanks to it.(when i do it consistently, that is 😉 )