How to meditate?

[hope]

Besides, Jesus said, " When you pray, don’t pray very long prayers that is repeated over and over…"

You put this in quotes as if that is exactly what Jesus said. It isn’t

In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

There isn’t anything about long prayers. If you put this in context, you will see that following this Jesus gives the Our Father.
Do Catholics pray Vain repetition
This link will explain why you have misused the scripture.
When I meditate on the Rosary, I say all the decades, I go through many passages of the Bible. If you can meditate while watching a documentary and doing choirs, it would be a snap to meditate on the mysteries while saying the prayers.

 

[christofirst]

It occurs to me that there are two branches of what we loosely term meditation. One way is to focus on a single word or phrase, repeating it silently in the mind to maintain focus and keep the mind from wandering off in distractions. This is the way of the Jesus Prayer, for example, and the way recommended by St. John Cassian in the 4th century, and later by Fr. Augustine Baker, and the anonymous author of the Cloud of Unknowing. From this way, we get today’s reinterpretations such as John Main’s Christian Meditation and Centering Prayer promoted by Frs. Keating, Pennington and Meninger. This way is also known as mantra meditation, although I know there are many who are turned off by this title because of it’s similarities with non-Christian Eastern forms of meditation. Still, I believe it is a legitimate way.

The other branch is more like guided imagery, where we engage our imagination during our time of meditation. This is the way of the rosary meditations, or the Jesuit way of St. Ignatius, examples of which have been posted above.

I think both ways can be helpful, particularly if we are drawn to one or the other. I get discouraged when we fight over it here on CAF, saying only the way we prefer is acceptable. I pray both ways. I pray the rosary every day when I’m out walking, and I also try to sit regularly in silent meditation in the way which I tried to describe above in the first paragraph. I also often pray in other ways, such as intercessory prayer. To my mind, it’s all good.

 

[francisca.chapter3]

** Matthew 6:7**

NRSV

“When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

I think the keywords are ;

1. Empty words
2. as gentiles do

Empty if we say a prayer just for the sake of saying it mindlessly
And we should not practice what gentiles do, which is the above

This kind of prayer is not necessarily heard by God.

 

[hope]

Empty if we say a prayer just for the sake of saying it mindlessly

Agree and disagree with you. You applied this to the Rosary. Just because a prayer is repeated does not mean that it is"empty phrases" The gentiles or pagans prayed to be seen. They did not meditate on their words. Often they repeated a meaningless phrase over and over to an idol which made their prayers empty. I have mentioned that When Jesus said this he then said " Matthew Chapter 6

“This is how you are to pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name” I don’t believe Jesus taught us empty phrases nor do I believe that the Hail Mary is empty phrases. I will repeat just because they are repeated does not mean that thy are “empty” just as the Angels in Rev 4:8 are not using empty words because they repeat them Day and Night.

The four living creatures, each of them with six wings, were covered with eyes inside and out. Day and night they do not stop exclaiming: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.”

 

[EndTimes]

I’m not a very educated person so if we can keep it lamens terms, that would be appreciated. I need some serious guidance on how can I achieve proper meditation for reparations and deep consolation to the Lord our God.

Helps to be alone in quietude - and then quiet one’s mind…
Be patient.
If at first you do not succeed - try try again…
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[fide]

Whereas the rosary prayer becomes empty if the person wants to meditate on the mysteries, why he/she spend more times reciting Hail Mary than meditating on the mysteries? Those 50 times Hail Marys is unecessary. You only need to say it one tume, and know Your Father in heaven hear you

@Dorothy said it very succinctly and very well, a few posts up (#20):

The Rosary is a good start in learning deeper prayer. It is like going through the mysteries of Our Lord’s Life while holding the hand of Our Lady, who knew Him so well.

We can think of each mystery with our imagination, and the Hail Mary prayers are like the music of our Lady’s presence with us.

The wisdom of this way is appreciated rightly only in time, in the doing of it perhaps daily for many months or years, I believe. The mysteries of our Lord’s life call us into them - because in them we find Him. The repeated prayers the Our Father, the many Hail Marys, the Glory Be’s, the Fatima prayer “Oh My Jesus…”, the Hail Holy Queen - all these gather us into the mysteries of the Trinity, and in a unique way Mary, as mother in Jesus, as model in Jesus, whom we in accompanying her in the mysteries, can begin to personally experience the words of Jesus from the Cross to the Beloved Disciple, “Behold your mother.” Mary is very important to our relationship with - our communion with - the Lord Jesus. This too is a precious reality grown into, in time.