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I highly recommend a 10-day vipassana meditation course. It's free: http://dhamma.org

I had panic disorder and nothing helped. Sometimes I would lie awake all night panicking, without sleep, until morning. Medications or therapy didn't help. Vipassana meditation has basically "cured" it/made it completely manageable.

Also, consciousness.io helps me

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>>I highly recommend a 10-day vipassana meditation course. It's free: http://dhamma.org

It's always hilarious when people recommend this to those who have not even done meditation. It's like they say they are thirsty and you say, "here, you can drink from this fire-hose!"

The guy is at a stage where he can benefit from even just 30 minutes of meditation per week. I think it's highly irresponsible to suggest he drops everything he's doing to go to some ten day meditation retreat...

I did it when I had not ever really meditated before and it changed my life. It's not any more difficult if you have never meditated before.

Doing a meditation retreat is actually a great way to get into meditation. I did a 5 day retreat having almost no experience beforehand, and it was a huge, huge help to me. Getting into meditation is hard, as it takes a long time to see real results, whereas with a retreat, you will definitely see results after a few days, which really helped motivate me to keep going. I'd also highly recommend the book Mindfulness In Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana. Very straightforward guide to meditation for people who haven't done it before.

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