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Meditation, undertaken through rigorous discipline, shows evidence for something. What that is, is still up for debate. If you're referring instead to feedback
by mileszim 12y ago
Meditation, undertaken through rigorous discipline, shows evidence for something. What that is, is still up for debate.
If you're referring instead to feedback techniques to curb anxiety responses, that is used in legitimate therapy.
Neither of those represent the content of this article. Furthermore, it suggests that anxiety can be simply reasoned away in 30 seconds. That is insulting to anyone who has ever had anxiety.
- mkal_tsr 12y agoI've had social anxiety for 25+ years. > When you focus only on boosting your internal state, your social anxiety will disappear. That is the line I drew the connection from. The first part of metta is to focus on yourself before moving onto others. Again, I explicitly said it would not work for everyone (and I disagree with the word "cure" both in title and text), but to outright dismiss everything about it is equally absurd. Furthermore, one of the larger benefits that people find in meditation is that they can more easily detach themselves from their emotions, which could allow them to see that they are not only their emotions and may have more control over how they respond to emotions than they previously had. None of that cures anything ... but, it can help an individual in showing them that they have more control over their internal state than they had previously believed.