When quieting yourself, being still before YHWH, to what does your thoughts or feelings drift? What's your focus? What you focus on is what you'll feel and move towards and do and become. That's why God says NO idols - he wants our focus on Him - so we can become like Jesus and be indwelled with His Spirit.

If you still yourself, and look at occurrences and opportunities around you, you may find God is speaking to you in coincidences or opening pathways to you (pathways that can be missed if you're distracted and disconnected from Him). Frank Viola wrote about it here, and cited to Frank Laubach as follows:

"Soaking" is a word used for meditation, especially meditations focused on adoration and connecting to God's presence. This excerpt is from Beni Johnson's recommendation of Carol Arnott's book "Soaking in the Spirit":

Carol Arnott authored a book entitled "Soaking in the Spirit". In chapter 3, Arnott references Mark Vikler's 4 step method to learn to hear the gentle voice of God's leading. (1) Quiet yourself. 

From Gratefulness.org -- Great Fullness - BrotherDavid Steindl-Rast
Light a candle on line with your prayer and meditation. Free. 

From Mark Waldman (associate of neurologist. Andrew Newberg):
   "NeuroTip: [When] you feel anxious, bored or stressed, go somewhere private and do three "mindful yawns". Watch how your mental state and mood begins to change. By the third yawn you should feel a deep sense of calmness where it is easier to focus on what is actually happening in the present moment. If not, spend 60 seconds doing super-slow stretches and/or focusing on a deep inner value.
   Now watch all of the different thoughts and feelings and sensations that are floating around in your semi-conscious mind – that’s your imagination network. Observe the anxiety, then yawn and bring your attention back into the present moment. Do this for 10 seconds or 60 seconds or longer if you feel like it. Now walk back into the social arena (the workplace, a party, or your family interactions) staying mindfully relaxed. Listen, observe, and use your intuition to gently engage with others!  If you practice this for just a couple of days you’ll find that any anxiety or boredom or stress turns into curiosity!"

This are three meditation Dennis & Jennifer Clark recommend in their book "Breaking Soul Ties" (at the end of Chapters 6 & 7). 1) Presence meditation 2) forgiveness and clearing meditation, (3) God in your physical body meditation. (Details under "read more").

A process of scripture meditation from Burning Heart: One key to a fresh revelation of God through Biblical stories is to make use of a method of meditation that over time came to be known as “affective contemplation.”

Anxiety, worrying, fear - is meditation - on negatives! 
Curt Landry uses Spirit Prayer (tongues) to instantly calm anxiety from airplane or boat turbulence. He also talks about loneliness can create anxiety, stress, disease, 3 minute video.
Spirit prayer changes spiritual surroundings and also changes your subconscious.
He prays in tongues and lowers his BP within seconds. 

Video and transcript.

The Benedictine Abbey of Christ in the Desert (New Mexico) maintains a monastery guesthouse for visitors. It sounds amazing:
     "To aid all of our guests in their quest to seek God, an atmosphere is maintained that provides time for privacy, prayer, reading, and reflection on God’s Word speaking in prayer services and the liturgies. The atmosphere most conducive to this kind of sharing of our life includes silence and some solitude."
     ​Here is their guidance on prayer and chanting:

A talk by Barry C. Black, 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate.
Excerpt:      "What did Jesus teach his disciples about prayer? He told them to pray in solitude, and the Father who sees in secret would reward them openly...When we pray in solitude, we are more likely to hear the whisper of God’s still small voice... Perhaps this is why we are admonished in Psalms 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God.” It is perhaps not coincidental that when God spoke to the boy Samuel (1 Samuel chapter 3), the child was resting on his bed. Find a solitary place to pray, your prayer will be more effective, more likely to bring an answer. Jesus also told His disciples to let their words be few; prayer involves listening as well as speaking."

From Word-Wise (Robert Cottrill)
   "...there is absolutely no power in prayer itself--beyond perhaps what's called the "power of positive thinking." (And having a positive attitude is fine, but it is not prayer!) Offering a prayer to the clock on the wall, or to a berry bush in the garden, will get us nowhere. Not even if it is a long and earnest prayer. Why? Because the power does not rest in prayer, but in the object of prayer.  The benefit of prayer is that it calls upon the power of Almighty God, at His invitation, and taps the resources of heaven (Philippians 4:19). There is a saying: "Prayer changes things." But it would be more accurate to say "God changes things, in answer to prayer."

From Praying Medic:
     "...people can make visions sound all mystical and weird and spooky, but the fact is – visions are about as normal as trying to remember the face of the woman in line behind you at the grocery store. Visions are nothing more than visual images that appear in your mind’s eye or what some would call your imagination...
     Most people receive these little images from God and don’t even know it’s Him sending them. A vision from God is an invitation to a discussion. If you receive an image in your mind and you think it might be from Him, ask what it means. Maybe just take a guess at what it means and see what happens. You might receive another vision. Ask what that one means and wait for the answer or take a guess. Before you know it you’ll be having a visual conversation with God.