That is very sensible and I feel the right approach, it’s also the one I took personally. As they say, “fools rush in where angels fear to tread”.
Like any other endeavor that requires skill, and carries risks from not having enough skill, from driving a car to navigating the astal, you start at the beginning with awareness of the landscape, what is possible and what is not, how to set up protections and mitigate the risks, learn how to handle issues if they come up, and THEN you try a simpler magickal practice or ritual, and feel you way as you build up a base of experience.
To translate that to magick, that means read around the subject, set up your shields and wards, learn how to banish and cleanse, start building your psychic senses, and from there start trying simpler magick that doesn’t need a lot of skill - a petition, candle magick and sigil method are common, easy and popular.
On this forum, we have, over the years, built up a bunch of free tutorials done by our own members to help with all this… The getting started guide with all forum orientation stuff, links to tutorials and popular megathreads are here: PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING :+: GETTING STARTED GUIDE, Rules, Notables, Tutorials and References. The links in that megathread are forum-made tutorials for things like spiritual hygiene, developing your astral senses and avoiding impostors and parasites… When you can be sure you’ll not get attacked by parasites, then try Unofficial Tutorials: First Contact from Sigils to Evocation Collection.