Is it better to --- (1) experience intense enthusiasm/euphoria but it also means you feel very deep despair/heartache at times, or (2) would you rather have less boundless joy but also much less sadness in your life?
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Feeling intense emotions healthily (positive or negative) is a skill most people don't have. Lots to say about how to develop it! Possible book rec: http://arobuddhism.org/books/spectrum-of-ecstasy.html …
Sometimes I see meditation instruction about ‘whatever emotions or thoughts arise, good or bad, pleasant or painful, recognise blah blah blah’, and I wonder how differently people might learn, if instruction also mentioned volume, frequency, velocity, viscosity, volatility, etc.
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It’s a vague metaphor, of course. But seems to help sensitise people to experiential subtleties. Another effective metaphor for increasing visibility of emotional subtlety is via other senses. A bit like synathesthisa by association. I’m not sure how/why, but it seems to work.
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Yes, I've gotten a lot out of experiencing the texture of emotions / thoughts along various dimensions; I think I first got this sort of thing from Gendlin Focusing.
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