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When present moment awareness triggers death projections

I have been trying to live in the present moment but my mind keeps projecting into the future where everyone I love is dead including me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mindfulness can paradoxically increase anxiety when present awareness includes vivid recognition of future loss.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Existential psychology — meaning death freedom?”

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