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Willoughby Britton - When Meditation Causes Harm

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Can Mindfulness Be Too Much of a Good Thing?

The benefits of meditation are the same as for the adverse effects just in some ways overtrained. In terms of anxiety, I think one of the places to look is the insula cortex. With the more time you spend focusing on your body, that can really amp up the insula and kind of amp up all of your emotional intensity. And so for a lot of people who already have anxiety, like putting your attention right where the anxiety is amplifies it.

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