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When mindfulness technology defeats mindfulness

The meditation app keeps telling me to be present but it's a computer program telling me this through a screen and the irony is making me anxious.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The medium contradicts the message, creating a paradox that generates the very agitation it claims to resolve.

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