I have my best success with integrating totally new things into my life by actually scheduling them. Sounds horrible but it is the only thing that has worked, and continues working well. As far as things that may help you may just want to find one thing that has proven success in others and try it for an extended period of time. I have self-care habits that have seemed to take forever to feel a payoff. Pick something, start, stay with it.

I'm glad it was helpful. I completely know what you mean, when juggling a chronic condition, it feels like there's so much to do and it feels completely unfair to add yet another thing. And on top of that, like most things in life that have to do with health...it's best to be done consistently. I hope you can find something you like, and that makes it easier to do again and again.

I do breathing practice before I get out of bed...5 minutes if I can, as prescribed by my PT, but if I'm running late or can't stand it then 3 minutes. I set a timer.

For what it's worth, the longer you do it, the more it retrains your brain and nervous system to respond to stress with deep breathing, and that's one reason they feel it can lower BP over time. I don't have a source to quote with this, but I participated in a group treatment program at Mayo, and the person presenting on this said the research shows you can see improvements in two weeks, but as @jenniferhunter said, you could measure your blood pressure before and after and see if it changes.

I'm a "questioner" and when I can see something like that, sometimes it helps to keep me motivated. You're obviously motivated to manage your health, so you have that going for you.