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When the monkey mind sabotages every attempt at stillness

Every time I try to meditate I start making mental lists of everything I need to do and I cannot turn it off.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your thinking has become so habitual that it cannot recognize the difference between useful and compulsive thought.

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