How Do You Start Meditating?
Five minutes is enough to begin. Pick a fixed time (right after waking works for most people), put the phone on airplane mode and set a timer. Sit cross legged on a cushion or on a chair with both feet flat, spine upright, shoulders loose, hands on the knees. Eyes closed, or open with a soft gaze about a metre and a half ahead. Follow the breath in and out through the nose; there is nothing to count.
Your mind will wander. That is not failure, it is the practice: the moment you notice, bring attention back to the breath, and doing that forty times in one sitting is normal. Do not lengthen the session in the first fortnight. Five minutes every day does more than half an hour once a week. When five stops being enough, go to ten, then twenty. If you miss a day, do not make it up; pick up at the usual time tomorrow.