Meditation - what is the proper way?

Congratulations on attempting to meditate. Where did you learn about how you should meditate on your own? It can be quite dangerous & there are many reports covering a range of physical & mental problems. There are a couple of examples of those who have made it on their own, but not without many difficulties, so I won't say it's impossible, just very, very rare. I don't want to deter you, but would encourage you to meditate with a good instructor & preferably in a sincere group of fellow practitioners. You may have many other questions besides where to focus & may encounter difficulties as you progress, which is where these people come in very handy & also to share their wisdom with you & the combination may help to awaken & improve your own. It is very easy to find help in this regard online these days. The best will never ever charge you so much as one cent or ask for any donations ever, but should give you, either immediate enlightenment or after a period of preparing & purifying yourself. In my experience, the very best will instruct you to concentrate only upon the wisdom eye, or third eye from which all things will improve; concentrating lower down really only stirs up the heat current.

There are many methods and "devices". The one most commonly advised is to focus on the actual breath/air stream in your nose. This encourages one to give one's whole attention, to the exclusion of any other thoughts, to something physical and more or less without any other meaning to it. The object is to learn to clear the mind of all thought so as to make it completely still and silent. It is only once one can do that successfully that one can begin to perceive concepts which have no words and learn to entertain them. Most people will say that in meditation, the concepts and messages that one receives come from "outside". I am inclined to think that it is rather more complex than that but it is not a point worth arguing about - it is more a matter of perception and how one understands the relationship between oneself and the "other" which one is allowing into one's consciousness. What you are aiming at has been described as something like tuning a radio to a very faint signal. At first it is very difficult to find the exact spot and to hear the signal over all of the static and noise but gradually one acquires the knack of concentrating on the signal itself and filtering out all the surrounding noise.

It doesn't matter where you concentrate but matters to keep a place to concentrate. Meditation actually is to concentrate at a specific place for long time. For me i will concentrate on inhale and exhale of my breath.