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Why Meditation Feels Impossible When Your Mind Runs on Productivity

I keep trying to meditate but my brain immediately starts calculating how many minutes are left and whether I'm using the time efficiently, which seems to defeat the entire purpose.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The habit of measuring time's value can infiltrate practices specifically designed to exist outside temporal evaluation.

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