Rawat's medidation techniques consist of squeezing your eyeballs, trying to stick your tongue back up into your nasal passage (I kid you not), sticking your thumbs in your ears to listen to "music," and following your breath in and out, each for about 15 minutes a day. 

That's it -- so you can see why you have to be "ready" and listen to 70 hours of Rawat not telling you what the techniques are, so you can by hyped up enough, and have your judgment ability destroyed enough, to not laugh yourself out of the room once the "techniques" are revealed.

And I agree with Danny that "meditation" is just a formalized concentration, and that for many of us, we have so much external stimulation, and are so involved with thinking, that it can be relaxing to stop all that by concentrating on just one thing.

Running was the best form of that for me.  Also rock climbing.  I could get very conentrated and so I not only got some physical exercise, and I also relaxed my brain.

But I think yoga is the best.  It's great for both concentration and physical conditioning, and as you get older, the stretching is great.

Many of us 60s-types fell for the bullshit that Rawat's techniques revealed God.  They didn't, and we would have seen that immediately if we hadn't handed our minds over to Rawt's lotus feet.  Man, were we stupid.