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When meditation triggers fight-or-flight instead of calm

Every time I try to meditate my heart starts racing and I feel like I need to run away from my own body.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Stillness can paradoxically activate a nervous system that has learned to equate quiet with danger.

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