Meditation can be basically training your mind to focus on a single thing. Focus on the breath. When you realize you're thinking about dinner, congratulate yourself for catching your mind wandering, and go back to focusing on the breath. It's helped me a bit at times. I saw a Sci-Am article that said 12 min every day seemed to be the sweet spot. Still working on consistency myself...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's a super basic thing that hopefully most people already know about, but "box breathing" really helps me when I need to relax. For people who aren't aware:

Four second long inhale, then hold for four seconds. Four second exhale, then hold for four seconds. Repeat.

After a bit I realize that I'm not counting anymore and it doesn't feel like holding my breath because now I'm just breathing slow on my own.