Buddhist meditations are a way of working in the mind using the mind: to augment existing awareness and positivity, and help you see the nature of things as they really are.
Although meditation is a word used often in a conversational manner in the West it is not surprising that there are misconceptions about it. One of them is to think that meditation is just a kind of relaxation; another may be that meditation is a state of trance. Sometimes you think that meditation is a pleasant drive away from reality or that meditation is a form of self-hypnosis. Finally, even says that meditation is to put a blank mind.