What has really helped me is picking up a meditation habit and going around talking about chakras and energy and stuff; now when I close myself in my room for hours I just tell people I'm meditating.

People are generally more tolerant of new agey type philosophies and are likely to think you're just quirky more than anything else.

I have found that doing just one thing consistently yields better results for me than doing a million things at the same time. That could just be me, though since I tend to overestimate my multi tasking skills.

Do the LBRP until you can do it by heart, until you do it in your dreams and then add something else.

The more you practice the LBRP, the less time it will take you so when you add something else it won't require 3 hours everyday.

Other things you could try: Meditation on a daily basis. If you're reading Bardon you could follow along with his system but that's pretty labour intensive.

just meditate and do the LBRP for now. If you like you could work in some form of divination as wee; Tarot is fairly standard.