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Meditation is often presented as something always calm and beneficial. For most people it is safe. But some experience anxiety, difficult memories or strange sensations, and it is good to know this beforehand.
Goals can be reached and come to an end. Values never end: they are the direction we choose for our life. Acceptance and commitment therapy puts this distinction at its centre.
When we talk to ourselves in the third person, “Ana, why are you so worried?”, we sometimes find it easier to think clearly. The psychologist Ethan Kross has studied this for more than a decade.
Before a great mountain, a starry sky or an extraordinary work of art, we feel something that is not simply joy. Psychologists call it awe, and have studied it seriously only in the last two decades.
When we put what we feel into words, “I am angry”, “I am afraid”, the feeling often weakens a little. Researchers have seen this even in brain activity.
With a friend who has made a mistake we speak gently. With ourselves, often, with a harshness we would never use with others. Psychologists have studied this difference.
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