Its a nice story. But why does A necessarily cause B? Maybe cessation of anger came with age and would have happened any way. Maybe some clutch of saturn or mars was diminished for a while, maybe secretly did a yagya for him, maybe its a placebo effect, maybe his diet changed and he began to get some increase of some needed neurotransmitter, maybe an elf cast a spell, maybe it was his karma to suffer anger for 50 years of so then it was over, maybe he simply acted in ways that did not create anger, maybe he has anger triggers that did not occur during that period, maybe jesus did it, maybe someone prayed for him, maybe its because the team x won, maybe his testosterone levels have decreased significantly, maybe he has a brain tumor, maybe the devil gave up on him, maybe he drove and Prius and the electomagnetic waves changed his aura, maybe he wore rudraksa, maybe he got a reflexology foot massage and wore those funny red sandals with knobs, maybe some one slipped him some acid and he worked it out without knowing it, maybe God had mercy on him ...
The story is no different, as far as I can see, that peoples lives changed with mystical thing, or new age thing, or fitness routine, or what ever. That's the point of science to try to isolate hat cause what -- and what is noise. If Ekman is a scientist then he must take his claims with some quite large grain of salt. Else he appears to be a quack. -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > The interesting story of world-renowned psychologist, Paul Ekman, and > the resolution of a lifetime of anger. > > "A related project had its roots in a surprisingly powerful private > exchange Paul Ekman had with the Dalai Lama during a tea break on > Wednesday. As his daughter Eve asked the Dalai Lama a personal > question about relationships, His Holiness alternately held, and > affectionately rubbed, each of their hands. That small encounter, Paul > later recounted, was what "some people would call a mystical, > transforming experience. I was inexplicably suffused with physical > warmth during those five to ten minutes--a wonderful kind of warmth > throughout my body and face. It was palpable. I felt a kind of > goodness I'd never felt before in my life, all the time I sat there." > > This was a unique moment for Paul, a feeling of being embraced with > generosity, concern, and compassion. And that moment came on top of > the Dalai Lama having said during the discussion what a good father > Paul was. Somehow that combination touched the very roots of Paul's > motivation in life. > > A year or so later, Paul related that experience--and changes he had > felt since--to a particularly traumatic incident in his life. "My > father was a violent man. When I was eighteen I told him I had decided > to study psychology, not medicine, like he had--he was a pediatrician. > And he said he would give me no support. I asked him if he wanted me > to feel toward him as he did toward his own father, who had also > refused support for his education. He knocked me to the floor, and > when I got up I told him that was the last time he was going to hit > me, for I was bigger and I would hit him back. I left home, not to see > him again for a decade." > > Since that time, Paul added, "About once a week for the last fifty > years I've had an anger attack that I regretted." But things changed > on the day in Dharamsala when Paul had that private encounter with His > Holiness. "After that, I didn't even have an angry impulse for the > next four months, and no full episode of erupting in anger for the > whole last year. I'm someone who has struggled his whole life with > flare-ups of anger, but even now, almost a year later, they're very > rare. I believe that physical contact with that kind of goodness can > have a transformative effect."" > > from Destructive Emotions, How Can We Overcome Them? : A Scientific > Dialogue with the Dalai Lama, Narrated by Daniel Goleman. >
