The one rule about meditation that Westerners either exclude or don't think about is the absolute stillness part.

If you go to a Buddhist temple and learn to meditate, some guy will hit you with a large stick every time you fidget or move AT ALL. When I first learned of this I was horrified and thought it was ridiculous.

However, after working on meditation myself, I found it was an important and significant aspect of the practice. There is a point where mind over matter has to occur for you to go to the next level. And believe me, I know how hard it is. Your mind will come up with all kinds of tricks to get you to NOT find that stillness. You have to get your concentration to the level that you can still overlook it, see the frustration come up, fight it, and then learn to let it go.