How to use meditation to boost logical thinking (or avoiding suffering with unrational scenario)
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Sometimes I catch my mind wandering and mixing up all the worst case scenarios for the future.
Currently I have a problem that will, most likely, have a small or medium impact on my life, however my mind has proven to have this hability of finding the worst of the worst possible scenarios, a real chaos, and when I think about this remote scenario I suffer really bad, eventhough the odds are very small, the feeling is terrible.
I try to use reason and use logic to show myself this scenario is highly unlikely, but it doesn't work very well, even the smallest possibility is a cause for strong suffering, so the question is: Is there anyway we can use meditation as a tool to calm ourselves AND show to us in a very effective way that this fear is unrational and this terrible scenario is highly unlikely?
Can meditation enable logical thinking?
Asked by konrad01
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Oct 1, 2014, 07:05 PM
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