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When Meditation Instructions Make Everything Worse

My meditation teacher says I should just observe my thoughts but when I try that I get more agitated and I am starting to think I am broken or not capable of this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A constructivist learning approach is being applied without understanding the student's starting point and individual conditioning patterns.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Learning theories — behaviorism through constructivism?”

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