Whether you do or don't notice does not indicate more or less competence. In prayer and meditation there are no rulers or measuring devices. Your way will be the correct way for you to meditate. It is my belief that our soul prepares to be in deep communion with our Creator, whether you notice it or not. One other thing the young lady that called brought up, is the question of when do you begin to receive messages or answers.
Many people think that answers or messages can only come during a meditation.
It's my experience that most often my answers and messages come at other times. I often get messages during meditation, but Byron normally doesn't. Messages can come through other people, songs on the radio, a tune that keeps going through your mind, an article in a newspaper or magazine, or any number of different ways. The message requesting that we take the lessons on prayer and meditation and use them to create a special prayer book came through you, the readers. It didn't come through my meditation.