If you think you're the only person who sits down to meditate and, five seconds later, is planning dinner, remembering an email from 2019, or mentally replaying a conversation that never happened... congratulations. You're meditating exactly the way almost everyone starts.

It’s not a habit you choose. It’s a strategy your body adopts when you’ve been swallowing more than you should — words, frustration, anger, emotional invoices. Bruxism is like a quiet alarm system saying:“If you’re not gonna deal with this during the day, I’ll handle it tonight.”