Meditation advice for novice practitioner

[danniel]

What advice to give to someone who has meditated for 50 or so hours at this point, around 15 to 20 minutes several days in a week. This fellow is in his early 20s and does not fully understands the usefulness of meditating daily.

So far he has taken couple of courses from 'Calm' app. The benefits, he says so far, are decent but ground level benefits, he says he is calmer and it has helped his overthinking and anxiety issues.

Apart from the fact he should practice daily and increase the time gradually, what other things needs improvements? From my end I need him to reap benefits which will help him grow spiritually and eventually in metaphysical aspect (not limited to emotional benefits even though they are great to have).

Is Leo's guide video of Shinzen Young's Feel, Hear, See technique a better option for this person? Furthermore what other techniques will be better that the mentioned above one? Any advice and thoughts are appreciated.

[gettoefl]

You may find the following helpful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/1eo8762/i_have_read_30_books_by_bhagwan_shree_rajneesh/

[Flowerfaeiry]

Check out a Vipassana 10-day silent retreat in your area if you’re looking for a really serious introduction to meditation.

[Aaron p]

You could try what I call the "be god" technique. Kinda simple, you just sit there being God lol