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I haven't read the article so this is more off the cuff. I read Emotional Intelligence by Goleman couple of months ago. And one of the bigger takeaways for me

I haven't read the article so this is more off the cuff. I read Emotional Intelligence by Goleman couple of months ago. And one of the bigger takeaways for me was that "meditation" or calmness was not an answer for everything. While meditation works on anger, stress (which are heightened emotions) etc it is not a good option when you are feeling sad/down. The better option will be to go out, have fun and get your emotional state up a bit. So, IMO is meditation pill for everything? No but if you are stressed it is the best thing you can do.

thewhitetulip 8y ago
Exactly. If you are sad and you meditate you might feel super depressed as you'd want to give up everything in lofe wondering "what's the point in all this?" Meditation is for getting a calm mind and not being bothered by stupid things like countless notifications etc it doesn't make us superman or batman
wool_gather 8y ago
Different meditative practices surely have different goals, but to my experience the big advantage is making clearer to myself the actual content of the emotional state I'm in. And thus making better decisions about "handling" that state. In other words, (for me) meditation does not directly solve the problem: it just lets me see and consider the problem more clearly.