Work anxiety is really just because it's incomplete. The motor is still running. You have to turn it off a bit early, maybe an hour or so. With working from hom

Work anxiety is really just because it's incomplete. The motor is still running. You have to turn it off a bit early, maybe an hour or so. With working from home, I've learned to start 15 min early and end 15 min early or I'll be stressed through the night. Meditation made things worse for me. The key is to focus on only one thing and avoid thinking about everything else. It can be a game. It can be a movie. I prefer motion. Tennis is great; focus on the ball and not how you swing. Running is great; focus on how your feet hit the ground. Cooking works too. I like particularly hard recipes like poached eggs after work. Do the things that you can't do without focusing; it forces you into flow and being in flow is fun. If you're watching a movie while swiping your phone, you're failing at relaxing. If you have to think about work, then do so. Take a long shower, lie down and don't blank your mind with meditation. Draw on a piece of paper what you're thinking. Take notes. Take a nap. Don't jerk your brain out of work because you think that's how you relax. It has to be "completed" somehow. But you don't have to do it in front of a PC. The brain can only handle one scope at a time. There's a massive switching cost, to the point that it's usually cheaper to try to do the thing slowly, rather than switch out then switch back in.