Certainly chimes more with my intuition.
For the curious;-):
‘adaptive functioning’ or the ability to handle strong emotional events, seems to be ameanable to change through practice (but there might be a selection effect worth mulling over)
http://self-compassion.org/UTserver/pubs/baermeditators.pdf (don’t worry, journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, just published here to get past paywall)
Certainly chimes more with my intuition. For the curious;-): ‘adaptive functioning’ or the ability to handle strong emotional events, seems to be ameanable to change through practice (but there might be a selection effect worth mulling over) http://self-compassion.org/UTserver/pubs/baermeditators.pdf (don’t worry, journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, just published here to get past paywall)
Long term meditators also report feeling positive background moods that are quite dramatic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_30JzRGDHI
Which doesn’t necessarily change much about the debate.