Closing your eyes is critical in the beginning. Be still. Feel all the ENERGY inside of you, and just be present with yourself within. At first it will feel like "nothing is happening" but you are dissolving layers of energetic "commotion", which once stilled naturally with patience and DEEP INNER AWARENESS, the deeper you go within the more you Awaken and Connect with your Universal Consciousness / Soul / Higher Self.
All higher Consciousness is found deep Within your being, and that's where you go