How do you meditate successfully?

How do you meditate successfully?
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In my Philosophy class’s textbook, there was a section about meditation. It said you need a mantra that you can repeat over and over. It also said you can count your inhales and exhales, which is what I did. That didn’t work as well as the mantra because as I would count my breaths, I would imagine the images of the numbers. Pretty soon the numbers starting bouncing around or spinning and I just got too creative with them, so it distracted me.
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