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When mindfulness becomes another efficiency project

I meditate every day to be more present but I check the timer constantly and rate each session's quality and I have turned mindfulness into another form of productivity optimization.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The attempt to systematize presence paradoxically reinforces the very mindset it seeks to dissolve.

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