Falling in love can be engineered in the lab with 26 questions and 4 minutes of mutual eye gazing. ted.com/talks/mandy_le
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Re: my recent tweets about generating & dissolving feelings at will. It's not that hard once you get the knack. There is a science to it.
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I can do glee instantly, loving kindness takes about 5 minutes. Anger is on tap, but I can't always turn it off instantly.
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Funny how we get attached to certain feelings more than others, making it harder to turn them off.
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Feel like you guys are a bit ahead of me on this. Starting to experience weird emotion-related side-effects to my practice as well, though..
There are a couple ways to do the emotion thing. It's just a trick. Detachment from emotion is far more valuable than control.
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I meant more in the sense that I've been experiencing detachment and attachment come and go in waves. Powerful calm, followed by distress.
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