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When meditation practice feels like another form of self-criticism

I meditate every morning for twenty minutes and my mind still races all day and I feel like I am failing at the one thing that is supposed to help me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The practitioner has turned mindfulness into a performance metric rather than a way of being present with whatever arises.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mindfulness as psychological intervention?”

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