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When meditation makes your mind feel more chaotic instead of calm

I meditate every day for twenty minutes and my mind is getting louder not quieter and I am starting to think I am doing something fundamentally wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The practitioner is experiencing the natural arising of previously suppressed mental formations without understanding this as progress.

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