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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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.
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.
