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How spiritual apps can become mindless habits

My meditation app streak is at four hundred days but I realize I am just going through the motions and not actually present for any of it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Gamification of contemplative practice can substitute mechanical repetition for genuine attention and awareness.

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