| "Still" meditation has many forms and goals. You seem to be speaking about the type where you empty your mind completely of all thoughts, which is very useful in todays stressful, rush around world, but only the first level. After you empty your mind fully, then you start to try to feel your body, the air flowing in and out of your lungs, your heartbeat, the flow of blood pulsing through your veins, and then finally the flow of chi through your body. Once you master that (after many years or even decades of practice), then you can learn to move your chi outside your body and learn to sense the chi flow in others bodies. | 
