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When meditation becomes another source of mental agitation

Every time I try to meditate my brain immediately starts planning my to-do list and I feel like I'm failing at the one thing that's supposed to help me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The effortful mind has co-opted even the practice designed to reveal its own limitations.

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