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How the analyzing mind destroys the states it tries to understand

Every time I achieve a focused state my inner critic immediately starts analyzing it and trying to recreate it and then the focus disappears completely.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The reflexive tendency to examine and replicate peak experiences often eliminates the very conditions that allowed them to arise naturally.

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