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When meditation practice becomes compulsive rather than liberating

I meditate every day for exactly twenty minutes and if I miss even one day I feel completely unmoored and anxious like my whole spiritual progress has been erased.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Spiritual practice transforms into another form of rigid control that generates anxiety rather than ease when disrupted.

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