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When meditation tracking becomes self-surveillance

I started meditation to find inner peace but now I am obsessed with tracking my mood and meditation streaks and feel worse when I miss a day.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The quantified self has infiltrated contemplative practice creating new forms of self-judgment.

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