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Is there scientific evidence that the more we have highly happy moments the more we have highly suffering moments? I does not match my experience of life.
I think it's more of the other way around. To have happy moments you have to have suffering moments to compare to how bad it could be. Basically: who gets happier when they get a gift? Someone who doesn't get gifts a lot, or someone who's always getting gifts?
Some 8 years or so ago I experimented with triggering mood changes using a meditative technique. I had long been doing 'centering' meditative exercises so that I could bring more focus and clarity to seated practice. I wanted something more practical that would affect my everyday life. I eventually settled on two 'states'. A 'centered' state and a 'joyful' one. Any time I noticed myself outside of one of the two stat…
I too have bumped into this during meditation, but being in my early 20s and not having a teacher or instructions, I ODed on bliss. I was living in a state of bliss I could turn up and down for years. I could turn it up so high I'd pass out from it. After years of this, something happened and I stopped being able to feel bliss at all. It was like a part of my neurology had been fried. I assumed it was something I had…
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I too have bumped into this during meditation, but being in my early 20s and not having a teacher or instructions, I ODed on bliss. I was living in a state of bliss I could turn up and down for years. I could turn it up so high I'd pass out from it. After years of this, something happened and I stopped being able to feel bliss at all. It was like a part of my neurology had been fried. I assumed it was something I had…
Yeah, another reason I eventually gave it up. Emotions are ultimately more fun when you mix them together like music, not just hit one high note all the time.
"Why not allow patients to set their own moods to suit their own circumstances and desires?" Can't most people to some extent do that?
Happiness = Money + Children http://archive.is/LvxSN