[wurp]

Meditation. Download a free 20-minute guided meditation and do it every day. Maybe at some point read "The Miracle of Mindfulness" by Thich Nhat Hanh.

I can provide a good guided breathing meditation on request.

Meditation will help you be calm and focused. It will help you recognize and work through emotions with a minimum of harm to yourself or others.

I'm definitely not advocating self-immolation, but the same training that let monks sit calmly as they burned to death in the 60s (in an attempt to call attention to the horrifying war in Vietnam) will definitely help you deal with your breakup, illness, work troubles, or loss of a loved one.

[niklasmtj]

This is something I also learnt this year after reading The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness by Andy Puddicombe the founder of Headspace.

After only 10 minutes of meditation you feel a lot better than before. I can not recommend it enough to try it.

I use the Headspace App for the guided meditations and it's free to learn the basics in 10 sessions/days.

[mikhailfranco]

Not just the Vietnam war, but continuing now against Chinese occupation of Tibet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_protests_by_Ti...

I sometimes wonder if Buddhist monks are powered by lithium batteries.

[_vn5r]

I’d appreciate a link to a good guided breathing meditation

[qzx_pierri]

I’m not sure which type of phone you use, but I’ve been meditating off and on for years, and I’ve tried EVERYTHING. The absolute best guided meditations are from an app called “Stop Breathe & Think” - It gives you a 2 question survey and gives you a guided meditation based on what you need for the day. A lot of meditation apps feel very corporate and contrived, but not this one.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.stopbreath...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stop-breathe-think/id778848692

[bobosha]

Absolutely second this. Long-time PTSD sufferer here, just meditating 30 mins every day has worked wonders for me.