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When creative meditation practices become dominated by perfectionism

I've been sketching mandalas as meditation but I'm so focused on making them perfect and symmetrical that I miss the meditative quality entirely.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The mind's preference for control has co-opted a contemplative practice meant to cultivate surrender.

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