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That's interesting! It squares with what I've read in books like Mindfulness in Plain English -- that some desirable mental states are achieved when certain har
by b6 11y ago
That's interesting! It squares with what I've read in books like Mindfulness in Plain English -- that some desirable mental states are achieved when certain harmful habits of the mind are in abeyance.
- agumonkey 11y agoI'm not sure I fully parse your message. But I too believe that the mind is an odd loop, where you're own self can focus/amplify different emotions and while it may feel absurd by constantly not trying to think or feel it may help rebalance the whole thing.
- b6 11y agoSorry, my impression of how it is said to work is, if you deliberately devote your mental energy to something non-harmful, e.g., strong feelings of compassion for oneself or others, it seems to brown out some or all of the harmful habits, at least to some degree.
- agumonkey 11y agoMost of the time you can allow to live in negative emotions but under certain circumstances you realize that it will never end and you're just wasting time, better focus on positive emotions. It's not as good a genuine self emergent good emotions though.