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Why your meditation skills disappear in social situations

I can access deep states of concentration during formal practice but the moment I interact with other people all my reactivity and judgments come flooding back

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Contemplative attainment in controlled conditions has not yet integrated with the complexity and unpredictability of relational life.

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