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When mindfulness instruction triggers mental resistance

My mindfulness teacher keeps emphasizing non-judgment but I cannot stop analyzing and critiquing everything she says during class.

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The mind's habitual patterns of evaluation can intensify rather than diminish when directly confronted with non-judgmental awareness instructions.

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