A lot of the science looking at physical measures of stress and anxiety reduction from meditation find that you get 80/20 benefits at 20-30 minutes a day. I enj

A lot of the science looking at physical measures of stress and anxiety reduction from meditation find that you get 80/20 benefits at 20-30 minutes a day. I enjoyed the bootcamp approach of the Goenka 10 day retreat, but I also think that the hardcore nature of the recommendations can make the perfect the enemy of the good. You feel like you need to keep up the 2 hours, and you want to after the retreat, and when you slip up you end up doing no mediation. I do believe that there are larger cumulative benefits to be had with full program, but 20 minutes is definitely going to make a big difference over doing none.