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When meditation practice creates new forms of anxiety

I started meditating to fix my anxiety but now I am anxious about whether I am meditating correctly and it feels like another problem.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Self-improvement motivations can transform contemplative practice into another arena for self-judgment and perfectionism.

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