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When spiritual practice becomes performance anxiety

I started meditating to reduce my anxiety but now I am anxious about whether I am meditating correctly and my practice has become another source of stress.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The goal-oriented mind transforms even liberation practices into projects for the ego to achieve or fail at.

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