Meditation is about being intimate with your deepest self. Any sense of formality, any sense that you are doing a technique that comes from outside of yourself interferes with this necessary closeness. Meditation can and should be something that you reach for in the same informal way you reach for a cup of tea, or an apple, or the phone to talk to a friend in other words, as a direct response to sensing some need in your body or heart. Meditation can be something you look forward to doing after you roll out of bed in the morning, to help you wake up and get ready for the day. It is something you may find yourself wanting to do when you walk in the door after work, to unwind and revitalize yourself.
Meditation is that much fun, but it is more of a relief, works better, and is cheaper.
Taking this informal approach to being with yourself will help you to keep meditation simple, a simple pleasure and a relief. Approaching meditation as a pleasurable indulgence will help you develop good instincts for your path, because instinctive guidance comes the same place your cravings and desires come from. You will need to be in touch with your instincts because you are your own guide in meditation, with your own daily life as your feedback mechanism. Far from it. They feel down-home, selfish and spontaneous.