Making Sense with Sam Harris

#63 — Why Meditate?

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Jan 31, 2017
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INSIGHT

Anger Needs Cognitive Fuel

  • Emotions are impermanent and often sustained by a stream of reinforcing thoughts.
  • Without repetitive cognitive feeding, the felt emotion typically decays quickly.
INSIGHT

Investigate Bodily Residue Of Emotion

  • After unhooking from thoughts you may still feel bodily residues that could be aversive.
  • That bodily layer becomes a new object to investigate with mindfulness.
ADVICE

Adjust Retreat Intensity For Mental Health

  • Avoid intensive silent retreat during deep unbalanced psychopathology like severe depression or schizophrenia.
  • Seek therapeutic engagement or reduce intensity until balance can be maintained.
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