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I disagree. I highly recommend a timer, but rather than an alarm, use something like a quiet bell. I use the Insight Timer app, but just without all the social aspects that come with it.

Sitting as long as you feel like is not beneficial, because most of the actual work will happen when you start to notice your agitation and at that point is when you will just want to get off the cushion. Stick through it, and watch that agitation and your monkey mind go crazy, until the end of the timer.

I recommend starting with a short timer, 10 minutes, then slowly increase the time.

Thanks for the feedback. I may have forgot to mention in the post, but this was more of a tutorial to learn how to do it rather than set up a production-grade hardened server for something important!