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When mindfulness increases mental activity instead of calming it

I know meditation is supposed to help with anxiety but every time I sit still my mind races faster and I start cataloging everything that's wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The effort to observe mental phenomena is paradoxically amplifying rather than settling them.

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