Other modes as in what? Meditation is either a fully introspective exercise where you try to momentarily pause your mind monologue or thought threads, or an inq

Other modes as in what? Meditation is either a fully introspective exercise where you try to momentarily pause your mind monologue or thought threads, or an inquisitive exercise where you evaluate your feelings about situations (by using logic or by simply mindfully re-organizing thoughts.) Whether you can call these things meditation or not is another discussion. The latter it’s basically what behavioral therapy does and it’s already established as the only efficient/semi-successful method to treat stress from past traumas and correct damaging behavior. So if the question is if you can overcome traumas and fix behaviors by simply doing introspective meditation (seeking to cease thoughts), I would say no. Your brain needs to actively revisit events and situations to readjust your perceptions about those events. According to BJ Fogg you can only change habits either by having a near to death experience (the only cold turkey approach that works) or by taking very small steps to disrupt and modify those habits. In a similar sense thought patterns can only be modified by continuously revisiting and shifting your perspective on a particular matter. This is easy to understand when you reflect on how particular opinions change as you grow older. It usually takes years of exposing yourself to different environments and information to change fundamental beliefs that are part of your upbringing. This is why childhood plays a crucial role in human development, since it’s easier to create to acquire new beliefs and change behaviors in a young developing mind.