The utmost aspiration for anybody undertaking meditation is to realise a comprehensive quietness of the mind. However, for many of us, this is frankly not achievable. If you have a noisy mind, attempting to attain an absolute silence of mind may be difficult to achieve. Typically, your very own attempts to quieten the mind will replenish your mind with the noise of thoughts similar to those which you are attempting to eliminate. While you might not have the ability to attain a total quietness of mind, you should not give up. After all, it is more important to focus on mastering your mind. The distinction being, that as you come to be that master, you can learn to focus your mind with one thought, so by banishing the noise to the background.