| There is a new book out right now by the psychologists Todd Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Deiner called "the Upside of your Darkside." While the two psychologists are both positive psychologists, they believe that a little bit of negativity is good for what they call 'wholeness' and that negative emotions such as jealousy, anger , etc can be useful in certain situations.
All of this of course is based on studies of normal individuals. Not dharma practitioners. So I ask you , especially those who have navigated far along the path if you find negative emotions to be at all useful? What is your relationship to these negative emotions? Do you find them to be irrational? |