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When meditation becomes a mental wrestling match

I sit every morning for twenty minutes but spend the entire time planning my day and judging myself for planning my day in an endless loop.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Effortful attempts to control the mind often create secondary layers of resistance and self-judgment.

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