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I would like to add one more thing to the above comment. Mr. Goenka says we should try to be aware of our breath and some sensation in the body all the time.
Be aware of sensations before going to sleep and do that as soon as we wake up in the morning.
He says our mind will be doing it even when we are asleep.
So I presume that once we train to be aware of breath and sensations all the time, we will automatically do it when there is a crisis, and the so called crisis will cease to be a crisis because it will just be another sensation, and we are trained to observe and not react.