It is said that the soul is all known. Soul as called by me as subconscious that is all known is always calm, it is the you that you search for in the gate ways of Conscious mind.
Dhyana i.e. sometimes called meditation is quite different. Modern Mediation techniques are not worthy, they may keep us calm for sometime but do fail. Meditation is time dependent or is done in a time, but dhyana has no boundations of time.
Dhayana means to be. In The Present. With no Past or no future but be in Present.
In Dhyana we need not to suppress the mind, it is like being an observer of the self. Letting everything pass through it uninterrupted , the flow of all thoughts emotions and energy. from toe to head. No resistance, Just observance.
In yoga or modern Meditations, we suppress things, we do not let flow each and everything that passes inside the body. Some Yogis are always in anger as they had suppressed themselves in such a way that the antidote of the same is not concieved by the self.
"WHERE THE LIGHT IS BRIGHTEST THE SHADOWS ARE DEEPEST"