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by OriginalPenguin 1223 days ago
Can you go into some detail about how you meditate to reduce anxiety?
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There's a great book by Culadasa: The mind illuminated. It covers a lot of what ancient meditators thought about the practice, but the essentials can be found in the first chapter.
Second this. He is a professor for neuroscience and meditation teacher for decades. Breaks it down into 10 steps, in plain english. A must, if you are into meditation, IMHO.
He was, unfortunately.
Goes to show the importance of Right View with these practices as well. They don't suddenly make you a great person on their own, etc.
I meant - his body dissolved and he got reborn or not (Idk whether he was an Arahant)
Ah - I forgot he had passed. I meant the sexual misconduct issues.
Not who you asked, but Healthy Gamer GG has a lot of short meditations that only take a few minutes. There's a course on his site but a lot of the same information is scattered throughout his YouTube.

https://youtu.be/86sYinrLuPA

Headspace helped me tremendously.