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When mindfulness becomes compulsive self-monitoring

My mindfulness practice makes me hyperaware of every sensation and thought and now I can't turn off the observer and just live normally.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Contemplative awareness has rigidified into a dissociative habit rather than remaining flexible and contextual.

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