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When secular meditation becomes spontaneous prayer

I started meditating to reduce anxiety and now sometimes I feel like I'm praying to something I don't believe in and it's working better than therapy ever did.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psyche naturally moves toward the transcendent through practice, regardless of initial intention or belief structure.

Ideas that help explain it
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