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How anxiety hijacks meditation and spiritual practices

Every time I try to meditate this anxious part starts listing everything wrong with my life and I cannot get it to stop

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

An anxious manager part interprets the spaciousness of meditation as dangerous and fills it with worry to maintain vigilant control.

Ideas that help explain it
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