[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > > > > I find it's helpful for meditation practitioners learn to work with > > difficult emotions as part of their practice. Just "transcending" > > them is not necessarily g

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

Bill: > The key word here is therapy... > All meditation is 'therapy' - yoga (meditation) is the original 'self-help' program. Some informants here are fond of making simple things, complicated, and even some topics, seem like 'secret' teachings, techniques only they know anything about. Go

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

The key word here is therapy ... and cognitive therapy at that. Although it may be useful as therapy, it is not meditation nor is the purpose of the two practices similar. Emotional afflictions are dealt with in a decidedly non-therapeutic manner in the meditative traditions. Almost all of them

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > Interesting article. From her description of herself I think she is a great > candidate for meditation. Her impulsiveness needs a little dissociation to > allow her

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

> > Maybe TM is unsuitable for some people and we'd be > > better off doing a different, less fraught, type... > > Vaj: > Non-sectarian meditation forms like Mindfulness Based > Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) are very helpful in this > regard... > Maybe, but in my experience, there is not much diffe

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

I can agree with that! "i'm on the fastest path of evolution and your'e not, kind of like, Well... you'll just burn in hell for eternity. --- On Fri, 4/9/10, Hugo wrote: From: Hugo Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger? To: FairfieldLife@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu wrote: > > Hugo wrote: > > > > A rather irritating Guardian journalist goes in search of inner > > peace. > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/08/tanya-gold-meditation > >

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon wrote: > > You left out, as a cause of anger, just plain bad manners, which is not > really a cause, but an expression of it. When Primal Scream Therapy came on > the scene, I think a lot of people looked on it as a way to *unload* their > emot

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj wrote: > > > On Apr 9, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Hugo wrote: > > > A rather irritating Guardian journalist goes in search of inner > > peace. > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/apr/08/tanya-gold- > > meditation > > > > From my own exper

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > A rather irritating Guardian journalist goes in search of inner > > peace. > > Why irritating? You have to get to know her. The Gruaniad seems to employ people as bu

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: Interesting article. From her description of herself I think she is a great candidate for meditation. Her impulsiveness needs a little dissociation to allow her time to reflect a bit before going off. The kind of person who I believe does n

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > > > A rather irritating Guardian journalist goes in search of inner > > peace. > > Why irritating? I enjoyed this. Some very funny bits. The > Buddha statue in the shrine "f

[FairfieldLife] Re: Can meditation help control my anger?

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" wrote: > > A rather irritating Guardian journalist goes in search of inner > peace. Why irritating? I enjoyed this. Some very funny bits. The Buddha statue in the shrine "for some reason reminds me of a very small football fan"--I don't see it mys