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So think maintenance rather than course completion. When conditions change, a new baby, a new manager, an illness in the family, expect the old reactivity to come and test them. That is the moment to go back to the basics rather than assume you are past needing them.
even though the Hereafter is better and more lasting (Quran 87:17). A practice meant to run the length of a life makes more sense when what you are working towards is measured that way.
الأعلى
وَٱلۡأٓخِرَةُ خَيۡرࣱ وَأَبۡقَىٰٓ
even though the Hereafter is better and more lasting
Qur’an 87:17read it in the library
Translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur'an, Oxford University Press, 2004.
A systematic review of mindfulness based cognitive therapy across psychiatric conditions found benefits, with the strongest evidence in recurrent depression. It is telling that the clearest case is a condition defined by coming back: the programme is built for recurrence, not for a single cure. Anger has that shape too, though the review does not cover it.
Chiesa A, Serretti A. (2011). Mindfulness based cognitive therapy for psychiatric disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.. Psychiatry research doi
Strength of evidence: one line of research. A single study, or a theoretical account.
Skills fade when they go unused, and pressure keeps arriving in new forms.
There is an old set of pictures: a boy loses an ox, catches sight of it, chases it, tames it, and finally rides it home. Asking which picture you are in this week is kinder and more useful than asking whether you are doing well.
Their account makes sense from where they are standing. So does yours. Granting the first does not cost you the second.
Old traditions worked this out a long time ago: someone who cannot be certain they are right cannot be righteously cruel. Doubt is not weakness here, it is what keeps the hand down.