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When meditation makes anxiety worse instead of better

Every time I sit down to meditate my mind immediately goes to my endless to-do list and I feel more anxious than when I started.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attempt to control inner experience amplifies the very agitation it seeks to calm.

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