This emotional undertone has a strong influence on our daily life, even if it is less clear to us there than in medi tation. A feeling of inferiority can determine choices of vocation, friends and partner. Our basic mood of anxiety can be transferred to our children, who may experience the world as unsafe. Aggressive behaviour patterns are passed on from generation to generation. Getting to know one s moods in meditation is to see more clearly what forms us, and how we create our own destiny.
Guidance is important.
The existential benefit in discussing uncomfortable chairs during guidance may seem rather limited. But at times, surprisingly great insight may be gained by dwelling on the mood we were in when the chair became so important. Many believe that it is very important to understand why we feel the way we do. Under standing the cause of our moods may provide a potential for substantial change. But much of our personal history remains in a fog that cannot entirely be penetrated.