Meditation as a relaxing exercise

A simple technique to focus on the object of meditation easily:
 
Start your meditation by thinking of the object
 
After a while, you notice:
    your attention has been caught by a different object, or,
    you are thinking of something else.
 
Relax your attention.
 
Your attention goes back, automatically,
   to the previous object, your starting object.
 
Keep relaxing, very gently, very patiently, and consistently.
 
Don't judge, analyse, or otherwise engage with the distraction.
 
The duration of your attention on the initial object will increase with each meditation.
 
(The first distractions will be at the conscious level. Then distractions will start coming up from the subconscious. These may be stronger, and then it may even take many meditations to let go of them easily and completely.)