I'm so glad I found a therapist for my burnout, as she introduced me to mindfulness meditation and it had the same impact for me at the parent poster.
The 'Mindfulness' app has decent free guided meditations, but I highly recommend the Headspace paid subscription, it costs peanuts compared to the value of your health and happiness. It's so well organised, has heaps of content, and they seem to be fairly science-based in their approach.
EDIT: Typo.
Can you recommend any resources for beginning meditation?
Re:Burnout and Mental Health
by tyleraland on Monday June 27, 2016 @06:51PM
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I've tried and really like the guided meditations (audio) from https://www.headspace.com/
There are some very short ones for free, longer ones cost money
Re:Burnout and Mental Health
by mancerayder on Monday June 27, 2016 @09:57PM
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Ajahn Brahm's guided meditation on YouTube isn't bad, and in fact some of his talks are decent as well (and relaxing). If you can get over a bald, English monk in Australia. There's a logical, rather secular sensibility that appeals to the geek that I am.
Helped me through times of personal and work burnout stress.
I listen to guided meditations. They are easy to find online and sometimes only take ~15 min. Here are some of the websites that I use:
https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditations/
http://self-compassion.org/category/exercises/#guided-medita...
http://www.mindfulselfcompassion.org/meditations_downloads.p...
I recommend The Mind Illuminated by John Yates. It's a brilliant book, see the reviews on amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990847705/).
The Calm app is what got me hooked https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calm-meditate-relax-guided/i...
Meditation. 15 minutes a day is all it takes, and I get myself to that place of not giving a care in the world and feeling all the stress just drop away. The only way I can describe it as, is like when you go on a beach holiday and you're lying in the sun, not sure what day it is (Saturday, Wednesday?) and feeling content.
Its now become vital and essential for me to mediate, it feels as important as sleeping and eating. I don't have any aspirations to become enlightened, I just wanted to stop waking up fearful in the morning and content during the day and night.