If it’s true that it requires focus and self discipline of one’s mind to stay in the present, we may wish to find ways to do that. If there is a feed taking place beyond your own interest, something that needs our minds to obsess on frustration, something influencing us to take our minds out of the present. Knowing how to get back in control of our own thoughts would potentially stop the feeding.

The emotional cost is what interests me from a standpoint of its mental and physical toll. Every emotion we experience is not just mental exercises, they strongly affect the body’s ability to perform normal functions.

There have been so many stydies done on how the body and mind are affected by over stimulation of emotional states, particularly negative emotions.