As Jon Kabat-Zinn explains, meditation is not a relaxation technique designed to make us feel relaxed. Rather, it is a practice that takes us beyond ideas of success and failure, and helps us learn to be with our experiences as they are.

"Emotions are a process, a particular kind of automatic appraisal influenced by our evolutionary and personal past, in which we sense that something important to our welfare is occurring, and a set of psychological changes and emotional behaviors begins to deal with the situation."- PAUL EKMAN, PHD