If silent meditation makes you feel bored and you cannot control the thoughts during silence, take the help of chanting. The chanting could be of a mantra, a hymn, the simple chant of OM ...

The late Douglas Shrader was a SUNY distinguished teaching professor and the chair of the Philosophy Department at SUNY ...

Chanting close chantRepeating religious phrases or quotations from sacred texts. is used as preparation for meditation or as part of meditation itself. Buddhists chant alone or together.

This bhakti-yoga involves meditative techniques such as mantra meditation, particularly the chanting of the Hare Krishna mahamantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare ...