Hi PianoPerformer, I'm late to the thread, but I have a few suggestions. You can start off with 20 minutes of silent meditation watching your breath. That's the easiest way I've found to retrain myself after not meditating for a while. Your breath is always with you. If your thoughts drift off, return to your breath. You don't need any other paraphanelia. Just keep it simple.
Hope that helps.
Also, I recently wrote a post on
my experiences with this breath meditation, I call it awareness meditation. After you've done it for some time, you can begin to have far out experiences.